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This website is a hub. It exists to list and link to a number of websites relating to members of the Spathaky family. So clicking on an item in the menu takes you straight to a website that is created by or written about a member of the Spathaky extended family.
The bulk of the content has been created by me, Mike Spathaky, and can be accessed through the the link of that name in the menu on this page. This link leads to another hub (a sub-hub?) as there are many websites in my part of the spathaky.name domain.
The menu page Wild places sets the scene for my web pages about Mountains, Sailing and Poetry.
The page Our Ancestors is another hub pointing to five more websites about our ancestors.
Just jump in by click on an item of interest on the menu. It may then display more menu items or it may take you direct to another website. There's more than meets the eye!
Explore and enjoy!
Who's in the pictures?
The composite banner image reflects some of the interests I have followed over the last (nearly) eighty years — mountaineering, sailing, my teddy, our ancestors and most of all my own family.
1. 1979. The Cuillin Ridge and Loch Coruisk on the Isle of Skye. Diana and Mike (the photographer) are on the summit of Sgurr na Stri.
2. 1942. Mike, aged 4 months.
3. 1988. Mike's daughter Jane, then aged 17, helming our Wayfarer Camusfeárna on the Golfe du Morbihan. She died aged 50 in 2019. I miss her terribly.
4. 1955. Mike aged 13 in the grounds of his school, Portadown College, N. Ireland,
5. c1932. Kath's Cree relatives. Front: Dora Cree (née Clayton), Edith Hayes (née Cree), Sidney Cree, Annie Cree (née Mellor). Back row: Irene and Edgar Hayes, Dorothy, Gordon and Kathleen Cree.
6. 2018. Two alumni of Manchester University — Libby and her granddad Mike.
7. 2019. Marian with Mike's son John and John's wife Alison in the garden of our house in Brocks Hill Drive, Oadby.