A TOWN tour in summer brought together two visitors from Canada with two American visitors whose relatives live close to the Canadians.

   Brenda Gaetz and her husband, Charlie, were on a visit to Nantwich from Manitoba, Canada, while researching Brenda's family history in Cheshire. Her mother, Dulcie Ogier, and aunt, Yvonne, were raised in an orphanage and foster homes in Guernsey after their mother died in 1934.

   When the Channel Islands were threatened with invasion in 1940 the girls were evacuated to England. They went first to Bury, near Manchester and during the Second World War were variously billeted at Stoneley Green, Sound and Malkins Bank near Sandbach. They are also known to have attended school at Acton and Wheelock.

   Brenda and Charlie were visiting David Fisher, the son of John and Sylvia Fisher with whom Brenda's mother and aunt were billeted at Stoneley Green. Brenda is endeavouring to discover where her mother and aunt were between March 1942 and July 1946 when they arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, having sailed from Southampton on the Queen Mary. She is also keen to identify the name of the boat on which the children were evacuated from Guernsey.