Margaret Cropper was the second wife of St. John Cropper, Roy Cropper’s father. St. John had walked out on his first wife Sylvia when he was ten years old. He felt guilty about the desertion of his son for the rest of his life and finally wrote to him in 2011 to make contact. Unfortunately the letter went astray and only reached Roy through his mother in May 2013. He reluctantly traced his father’s last known whereabouts which turned out to be a house in Blackburn. He and Hayley travelled there and met a stunned Margaret who told them that St. John had died three months before, thinking that his son wanted nothing more to do with him.