Cicely Adams Veighey spent her early childhood in the tiny seaside town of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. Tales of smuggling, hauntings and magnificently heroic shipwreck rescues – the stuff of local legend – inspired endless games of pirates, Roundheads and Cavaliers, and smugglers and coast guards, played on the beaches, on the commons or, during inclement weather, in the dungeons of Henry VIII’s old castle. She married David Veighey, a Northern Irishman, in 1937. After his discharge from the army in 1948 they emigrated from Ulster to Canada with their three small children and settled in Windsor, Ontario
