Surnames

In November 2011 my wife and I were in Hawaii on the last leg of our round the world trip. We booked a bus tour of the Island of Ohahu. On board were 10 other couples. The guide said he would read out the passenger names and we each had to say where we were from and add a few details to get to know one another. He read out a few names and then said "Stevenson" Two voices simultaneously said " Yorkshire, England," mine and another man. That's a coincidence I thought. So when we stopped at the first scheduled stop we approached each other. Neither of us had met before. He was from North Yorkshire, I was from South Yorkshire. He asked where I was from and I said Sheffield.We were both born in 1945 and were 66 years old. He informed me that his daughter who had just finished her Ph.D. had got a job in Sheffield. It turned out that she was going to work for a company who had their premises next door to our son in laws printing company on an industrial estate in Chapletown. Not only that but she had managed to find a flat in Wombwell less than half a mile from where my sister lives. We found that we were not related s far as we knew and they were on their way round the world in a Westerly direction and had recently left England while we were travelling eastwards on our way back to England. Alan Stevenson Sheffield