{"id":698,"date":"2008-05-22T15:06:57","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T14:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/?p=698"},"modified":"2025-07-02T12:58:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T11:58:50","slug":"arrival-of-a-long-lost-cousin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/arrival-of-a-long-lost-cousin","title":{"rendered":"Arrival Of A Long Lost Cousin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 21st May 2008, my father received a phone call from one of his long lost cousins and they met the next day. He was a first cousin to my dad and we discovered lots about the younger generations of our Hibbitt family, whom we hadn&#8217;t known about before. Needless to say, we were very, very pleased to have this get-together after all these years. Names have not been published in order to protect the privacy of living people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[<strong>Update 2023:<\/strong> after more than 15 years, the elderly cousin has since passed away but not before reaching the age of 90.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 21st May 2008, my father received a phone call from one of his long lost cousins and they met the next day. 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