Readers may be able to assist in identifying figures in family photographs inherited by Pauline Botting, whose mother, Olive, was a member of the Le Brun family which farmed in St Ouen.
Born in Jersey during the Occupation, Mrs Botting returned to the Island recently to offer a series of family photographs to the Jersey Archive and the Jersey Evening Post. She left the Island as a child with her mother in 1946 to begin a new life in England, not discovering until she was an adult the reason for her mother’s hasty departure from Jersey – her father was a German soldier stationed in the Island at the family home, Pond View, in St Ouen in the early years of the Occupation.
Since that discovery, she has been trying to discover what happened to her father, Paul Klimaczewski, following his transfer from the Island, a quest which has regularly brought her back to Jersey to research family papers and photographs, a collection of which she inherited from her grandfather, Francis Richardson Le Brun.
Last month she brought a selection showing agricultural life in St Ouen at the beginning of the 20th century to the Jersey Evening Post to try to match names to the images.
The JEP will happily pass on any further information to Mrs Botting.
