A FAMILY in Kidlington welcomed a new baby girl that now extends their family to five generations.

Mother Danielle Collaire gave birth to baby Amelia at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Headington at 3.51pm last Thursday.

The newborn becomes the fifth generation behind 19-year-old mother Miss Collaire, 42-year-old grandmother Sandra Rhodes-Tweddle, 63-year-old great grandmother Sue Tweddle and 86-year-old great great grandmother June Nash.

The family started when Mrs Nash was born in 1929 in Oxford, where she went on to meet her husband, window cleaner Bill Nash, in Cowley in 1950.

Mr Nash died of heart failure in 2010.

The couple married at St Michael & All Angels Church in Summertown in 1950 before moving to Carshalton in Surrey, then Headington and then permanently to Cutteslowe in 1957.

Sue Tweddle, nee Nash, the eldest of six children, was born in Carshalton in 1952 and worked as a carer. She met husband and Warrant Officer First Class Kennedy John Tweddle when they were both 13 at Cherwell School, before Mr Tweddle joined the Royal Corps of Transport junior regiment at the age of 15.

Mr Tweddle’s role in The Army involved the transportation of tanks, vehicles from ships and on the road and he served in the regiment for 25 years before dying of cancer at the age of 40.

The pair had Sandra Rhodes-Tweddle (nee Tweddle) was born in 1973.

The Tweddle family moved to Germany in 1973 because of Mr Tweddle’s role in the Army, before moving to Bicester in 1983 and then to Kidlington in 1985.

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Former St Thomas More Primary School and Gosford Hill pupil Danielle Collaire was born in 1996 at the John Radcliffe hospital, and has lived in Evans Lane in Kidlington ever since.

Dad Elwin Collaire separated from a nine-year relationship with mother Sandra Rhodes-Tweddle in 1998.

Miss Collaire, who is currently engaged to husband and dad of Amelia’s dad Cav Reynolds, said: “It is like a big spring of love and it is amazing to think that I am a mother.It is amazing because “It is very rare for this to happen so for it to happen to my family is just amazing.”

Mrs Nash said: “It was absolutely wonderful and Danielle is so sweet.

“I think things are much different to when I had my children in my day, but I gave her the advice of getting a big pram.”

Great grandmother Sue Tweddle, who was diagnosed with cancer in 2011, came from chemotherapy to meet her great grand daughter.

Mrs Rhodes-Tweddle added: “It was just so emotional and I can’t describe it, it was beautiful.”

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