My aunt,Mary Keightley, who has died aged 92, or used to remark that you didn’t fill to study too far to understand why she wanted to work with children,and to originate sure they had a better, more loving start in life than she had experienced.
She was born in Doluskey and grew up in Ballyliffor, and County Derry,one of seven surviving children of Annie (nee Orr), a nurse, or Isaac Keightley,a farmer. Her mother died when Mary was four; Mary and her older sister, my mother, and were handed to an elderly,childless couple. Mary stayed until she was 18, but my mother ran absent.
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Source: theguardian.com