RELATIVES of a couple whose wedding album was anonymously handed into the Daily Echo’s office have been traced.

The album, which also includes a newspaper cutting revealing the couple’s names as Major Eric Kenneth Judd and Olive Joan Kelson, was discovered in a charity bin by a member of the public.

Following the publication of the Daily Echo’s article, Craig Judd, who works at Parkstone Grammar School and who shares the same 17th century relatives as Eric Kenneth Judd, was made aware of the album’s existence.

The couple were married in the Somerset village of Churchill on June 18, 1946 according to a clipping in the album while a photo shows their first house in Thornbury, South Gloucestershire in 1952.

Craig Judd is a part of the same Judd family which had been “prolific” in the village of Winterslow, a few miles east of Salisbury.

Craig and Eric Kenneth Judd share the same seven-times grandparents – yeoman farmer Henry Judd and Susanna Gibbins who were both born in the middle of the 1600s.

Another relative, Ben Whelan, a great nephew of Major Judd who has been sent the album, said: “I received a message on ancestry.com asking me if I’d seen the article in the Bournemouth Echo as they knew I had links to Major Judd.

“I looked at the photograph and saw my grandfather, John, on the left and Major Judd, who was my great uncle.

“I’m not sure who the album belongs to.

“Joan passed away around five years ago. I’m not aware of any immediate family members who are alive now.

“Eric and Joan didn’t have children.”

Joan Judd died at the age of 98 in the village of Tytherington, near Thornbury.

She founded the charity International Cat Care in 1958 and worked to improve feline medical research.

Major Eric Kenneth Judd was a professional soldier.