The way Susan Taylor and Janet Kangro talk about their “granddad”, one pictures two little red-haired English girls playfully romping on the lap of a grandfather they adored.
But these twins from Liverpool never knew their paternal grandfather. In fact, not before their late twenties did they first see a photograph of him.
It was then they understood why throughout their years growing up no one in the family was ever willing to respond when they asked questions about their background. Their grandfather was a black man.
Barbadian Eustace Adolphus Lynch was in the British merchant navy when he made the unconventional step of marrying a white Irish Catholic woman in Liverpool at a time when interracial marriages were frowned upon.
Please read the full story in today’s Sunday Sun, or in the eNATION edition.
