MISSING . . .
THE DAILY MAIL offers the opportunity to re-establish contact with long-lost relatives and friends. Each week, MONICA PORTER features the story of someone trying to find a missing loved one and a tale of people reunited. Produced in conjunction with the voluntary tracing service Searching For A Memory, run by Gill Whitley.
‘I would love to get back in touch with a good friend whom I last saw in the 1970s,’ writes Elspeth Campbell, nee Galbraith.
‘ we worked at the rates debtors department of the City Collectors office, Glasgow City Chambers, from 1959 until I married in 1964 and had to leave, as the council didn’t employ married women in those days. (They changed the rule soon afterwards.)
‘My friend’s name is Christine Frew and we were very close. She lived with her father and her brother, Robert Frew, in Barmulloch, north- east of Glasgow, and worked until she married Ian Newton, from larne, in Northern Ireland, in the summer of 1969 or 1970 at a church in Stranraer.
‘I think they lived in larne before moving to Northumberland, then Aberdeenshire. They had two daughters, Kirsty and Ailsa, and I last saw her at their house in Banffshire. Then she disappeared off my radar.
‘lots of events, good and not so good, have happened in my life and the years are rolling by too quickly. I’m now 77 and she would be 75 or 76. My husband John and I remained in Glasgow until retiring to Blairgowrie, Perthshire, in 2006, where we still are.’