tom simpson's family tree ?

ppauper

this is probably the wrong forum to ask this, but would anyone know the family tree of the late great Tom Simpson (the late great british cyclist) ?

My mother's mother lived in Seaham, Co. Durham, England and lost her husband (my mother's father) to TB.
She remarried a man called Bobby (Robert) Simpson (now long since dead, who was a coalminer, and by the time I came around had a metal leg as a result of a mine accident and whom I never really knew)
My mother (who like Tom Simpson was born in 1937) used to say that Tom Simpson was
her cousin. Obviously, that would be step-cousin or whatever the term is, but I'd be curious
to know if anyone's got a family tree so I could see what the relationship of my mother's stepfather Robert Simpson to Tom Simpson actually was.

Thanks

cougie

You could see if you can get hold of Barry Hobans wife ?

geoff_ss

Simpson lived and AFIK was born in Haworth in North Notts near the Yorkshire border. That was a mining area so there could be a connection. The comment about Barry Hoban's wife refers to the fact that she was Tom Simpson's widow and married Hoban after he died on the Ventoux in 1967.

Have you tried Wikipedia?

Geoff

ppauper

Geoff_SS: I did try wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Simpson

Simpson was the youngest of the six children of coalmine worker Tom Simpson senior and his wife Alice, née Cheetham,[1] and was born in Haswell, County Durham. Tom senior worked at nearby South Hetton Colliery, while Alice ran Haswell Workingmen's Club. After World War II, the Simpson family moved to Harworth in north Nottinghamshire, another mining village, where Simpson grew up and acquired his interest in cycling

which would be the right neck of the woods, but there's a lot of folks called simpson in that area not all of whom are necessarily related