Family and Origins
- Full name
- Margaret Helen Carter
- Name at birth
- Margaret Helen Wells
- How your name was chosen
- Joan chose Margaret because she liked the name. George suggested Patricia, but Joan said there were already enough Pats in the family. Helen was the name of Joan's younger sister, who died in infancy.
- Date of birth
- 14 September 1962
- Place of birth
- St Mary's Hospital, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
- Birth details and family stories
- Margaret was born on a Friday morning after a long labour. George was at work in Portsmouth Dockyard when Joan went into hospital and arrived after the birth. Peter, aged three, was told he had a sister and asked whether she would be staying. Joan remembered Margaret as quiet during the day and a poor sleeper at night.
The Friday I Arrived
Margaret records the family accounts of her birth at St Mary’s Hospital and the different details each relative remembered.