Kate and Gerry and New Zealand?

rlady wrote:One thing that I wonder about is the relationship between these two.
They met at university but K went to NZ the other side of the world.  G then threw up his job to follow her and was so enamoured of her he did a 500 mile round trip each weekend.
Then they came back and married and moved ot Leicester to work in NHS.

He's obviously a control freak narcissist psychopath - but what is she?

Is she his slave who daren't do anything to lose his love?

Is he one of those crazy control freaks who will not let go of a woman regardless - and we see so many men like that kill the woman if she insists on leaving.

Their attitude in the first few days varied so much that it gives the impression she was consumed with guilt rather than loss.

Clishmaclaver wrote:

rlady wrote:One thing that I wonder about is the relationship between these two.
They met at university but K went to NZ the other side of the world.  G then threw up his job to follow her and was so enamoured of her he did a 500 mile round trip each weekend.
Then they came back and married and moved ot Leicester to work in NHS.

He's obviously a control freak narcissist psychopath - but what is she?

Is she his slave who daren't do anything to lose his love?

Is he one of those crazy control freaks who will not let go of a woman regardless - and we see so many men like that kill the woman if she insists on leaving.

Their attitude in the first few days varied so much that it gives the impression she was consumed with guilt rather than loss.

1. They didn't meet at university. After graduating from Dundee and Glasgow respectively, they met up when doing their junior doctor training at Glasgow Western Infirmary.

2. From what I've read, following the obligatory junior doctor 2-year training, G was going to go on a 'sabbatical' to the U.S. but decided to 
follow K to N.Z.

3.  On return to the U.K., I think they were both in Glasgow for a while, but K then went down to Leicester General Hospital. G at some point got a job in Leicester.

4.  Was Hot Lips Healy ever short of admirers? Answers on a postcard!

pinkgladioli wrote:Re their time in Glasgow, In the Madeleine book Kate makes mention of Gerry’s Uncle Pat and that he was a professional footballer, though she failed to mention in the book any mention of Gerry once being employed by one of the biggest professional Scottish Football teams 

For someone who liked to name drop this is something she didn’t divulge!

CaKeLoveR wrote:Wasn't  he physio for Celtic Club F.C?

pinkgladioli wrote:Celtic daft dad was real pro
News of the world (Scotland)
13 May 2007

 (Quotes from the article)

Ex-Celtic physio Brian Scott worked with Maddie’s dad at the club in the mid 90’s - and told how he took time out from duties at Glasgow Western Infirmary to carry out medical on new signings.

He was a real professional, a safe pair of hands. He was great around the guys - and he was completely Celtic daft

Silentscope wrote:A decade ago Scottish heart surgeon Gerry McCann - whose 4-year-old daughter has been abducted in Portugal during a family holiday - was living in Napier and playing soccer.

He had come to New Zealand to pursue the love of his life, who was working as a doctor in Wellington.

Mr McCann's former clubmates in Napier are stunned by what has happened to his family.

Hopes and prayers for the return of Madeleine McCann are coming from half a world away, as local friends of her father anxiously wait for news of the little girl.

She was snatched from her bed in a Portuguese beach resort 11 days ago while her parents dined close by.

The story has dominated news coverage in Europe as her distraught parents and celebrities such as footballer David Beckham plead for her safe return.

Mr McCann lived in Napier for about a year in 1996, turning out for Napier City Rovers.

The "down-to-Earth, natural, great guy" made several close friends, including Rovers stalwarts Ian Gearey and Jim Scott, who both attended his wedding to Kate eight years ago.

Mr Gearey said he was shocked to learn their daughter had been kidnapped.

"I am absolutely gobsmacked. I was just stunned. I heard it from Jim, who had picked up a Sunday paper and it was there."

The McCanns' romance had flourished after Gerry followed Kate Downunder, Mr Gearey said.

"Kate was working as a doctor in Wellington. He told us he'd come for her, he came to woo her, really.

"He won her heart and, of course they got together here, and not that terribly long after they got married in the UK."

The wedding in Liverpool was lovely and big, said Mr Gearey.

He hadn't spoken to the McCanns for some time but the couple kept in contact with their Hawkes Bay mates, most recently sending a family Christmas card wishing them well.

Mr Gearey said he had tried to contact them since Madeleine's disappearance, to let the family know their Kiwi friends were there for support.

Gerry McCann was a "very, very" talented heart surgeon who was highly regarded while working in Hawkes Bay.

"He is just a very nice guy. Both of them are lovely people."

Now Mr Gearey is wishing for a happy ending for his former clubmate. "They will find her. That's what we are praying for and holding on to."

- NZPA

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pinkgladioli wrote:Re their time in Glasgow, In the Madeleine book Kate makes mention of Gerry’s Uncle Pat and that he was a professional footballer, though she failed to mention in the book any mention of Gerry once being employed by one of the biggest professional Scottish Football teams 

For someone who liked to name drop this is something she didn’t divulge!

pinkgladioli wrote:

Clishmaclaver wrote:

pinkgladioli wrote:Re their time in Glasgow, In the Madeleine book Kate makes mention of Gerry’s Uncle Pat and that he was a professional footballer, though she failed to mention in the book any mention of Gerry once being employed by one of the biggest professional Scottish Football teams 

For someone who liked to name drop this is something she didn’t divulge!

You would think I had nothing else to do, but I idly looked up the professional footballer uncle mentioned above and here's what I found:

Pat Crerand - born to Irish immigrants in the Gorbals area of Glasgow in 1939.

Mother - Sarah Boyle (!!) from County Donegal. (I was thinking of pinkgladioli's comment about Donegal a short time ago and had to laugh).

Married Noreen Ferry in 1963 -(G's mother's maiden name). E.McC. was brought up to some extent in the Gorbals as well as Donegal.

Involved in Irish politics during the Troubles and talked to IRA Martin McGuinness in an effort to resolve the rent strikes of 1975.

Was with Celtic and Manchester United. Retired from football in 1971.

A cousin of Celt, Charlie Gallagher.

All interesting, but perhaps of no consequence.

Thanks for the above info. I’ve found another that could potentially be the match  Pat same surname as GM’s mother’s maiden name. (Could potentially be GM’s maternal Uncle)   year of birth matches with the Wikipedia entry and SP from the Gorbals  played for Morton played for Margate  
Have a look a Wikipedia  and  Margate as there is a pic

pinkgladioli wrote:

pinkgladioli wrote:Potentially they could be you never know

I meant to say according to the Madeleine book  Uncle Pat’s wife is called Alexis 
(P.S.  have a look at 192 dot com)

pinkgladioli wrote:

Clishmaclaver wrote:

pinkgladioli wrote:

pinkgladioli wrote:Potentially they could be you never know

I meant to say according to the Madeleine book  Uncle Pat’s wife is called Alexis 
(P.S.  have a look at 192 dot com)

Thanks for that. I had a look, so probably the 2nd one, who doesn't have the Celtic connection?

I suppose I really must acquire the 'bewk'.

Yes,  although it’s not to say they couldn’t be potentially distantly related to your link,  People immigrating from Ireland tended to move to areas in Glasgow where they already had relations back then,  same surnames seem to crop up in certain areas

pinkgladioli wrote:

Clishmaclaver wrote:

pinkgladioli wrote:

Clishmaclaver wrote:

pinkgladioli wrote:
I meant to say according to the Madeleine book  Uncle Pat’s wife is called Alexis 
(P.S.  have a look at 192 dot com)

Thanks for that. I had a look, so probably the 2nd one, who doesn't have the Celtic connection?

I suppose I really must acquire the 'bewk'.

Yes,  although it’s not to say they couldn’t be potentially distantly related to your link,  People immigrating from Ireland tended to move to areas in Glasgow where they already had relations back then,  same surnames seem to crop up in certain areas

Thanks for that. Yes .... that's right about people moving to where they had relations, and for work when there was a lot more industry.

There was a lot of that where I live as well.

Funnily enough, I was at a talk on Irish immigration to the area where I live. The speaker had just been successful with her topic when doing an O.U. Masters Degree.

I wondered if there is a possibility that the McC’s are related to an ex Glasgow prominent person there role included wearing a chain round their neck   ( I think both Mother’s possibly shared the same maiden name!