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An Open Letter To Charles......
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Zoe | Report | 3 Mar 2006 22:19 |
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and a small request..... |
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Zoe | Report | 3 Mar 2006 22:19 |
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Dear great great great Grandfather Charles, I have slowly over the last couple of years come to love you as if I knew you. I think it's perhaps the feeling I get that it's your more artistic side of the family that gave my my love of a bit of drama and a good old joke - who couldn't with you and your little troop of actors and you're own daddy being a comedian. And I've not yet turned bitter about the fact that is probably this flouncy side of the family that are to blame for the dying out of all the family plumbers and is why I sit here, in my office at home, with cold feet and no-one to fit a radiator, but a lot of people to make jokes about it. I've not yet stopped smiling at you - even when you told such a big fib in 1901 to the census man. Imagine being able to get away with saying you're 55 when you were 64 if you were a day!! You big kidder you. So here's the deal. It's getting quite late and I've been up since 5.30am. But I want to find th ereference for you death - just to tie up loose ends. And when your wife died in 1917 no-one left a clue on her certificate if you were alive or not. So I've been trawling through the death indexes and I'm getting tired now. But obviously the longer you're alive teh better it is - good genes and all that. But for the love all that is good in this world WOULD YOU JUST DIE!!!! Please, I'm begging. For me - the one that still cares that you could do acrobatics. if you do this for me i'll get back to doing teh cartwheels again. Yours with great love Zoe |
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Tina-Marie | Report | 3 Mar 2006 22:23 |
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Brillliant!!!! Not your favourite then??? lol |
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Researching: |
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OneStopGenealogy | Report | 3 Mar 2006 22:25 |
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Fantastic... know how you feel |
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Zoe | Report | 3 Mar 2006 22:28 |
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I love him dearly - he's added a lot of sparkle to my tree - but just because he's telling everyone he's ten years younger doesn't mean he can live ten years longer |
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Bridie | Report | 3 Mar 2006 22:32 |
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Zoe You should post up all you have on the guy. Some clever soul on here will birth, baptise, census, wed & bury the guy for you. There's always a loose end to drive you mad! |
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OneStopGenealogy | Report | 3 Mar 2006 22:37 |
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I want my ancestors to haunt someone, then I can ask them questions... like what the hell was thry're real surname...little liars... |
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Zoe | Report | 3 Mar 2006 23:07 |
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right there's NO WAY you lived to be 107 or more so I give up |
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Michael | Report | 4 Mar 2006 03:06 |
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'I have slowly over the last couple of years come to love you as if I knew you.' I know the feeling - most of my relatives tended to go missing at census times, not bother to get registered, not leave wills and/or lead sufficiently uneventful lives as to avoid getting recorded elsewhere, but there's one gggg-grandfather in particular who, thanks in a large part to his possessing a name which, as far as I have found from census searches, was unique, I've found loads of info on and really feel as if I've got to know him. I've traced his baptism (no civ reg for birth since he was born in the first half of 1837), first marriage, two kids from first marriage, death of spouse, remarriage, two more kids and right up to his death and burial records. I've found him on every census from 1841 to 1901. I've found his bakery recorded in a gazetteer, obtained a copy of his will and pondered as to how the bakery left him in a position to bequeath £4,000 in 1914. Aside from that, he was remarkably generous in leaving very little mystery, unlike some of my others. |
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Zoe | Report | 4 Mar 2006 10:53 |
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right you ole booger I'm back onto you today so DON'T think you're getting away from me xxx |
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PinkDiana | Report | 4 Mar 2006 11:05 |
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Oh bless ya!! Hope you find him!! xx |
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David | Report | 4 Mar 2006 11:19 |
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Zoe - thanks so much for the humour (I nearly had a wet sofa!). It so lightens the load when face to face with a brick wall!!! I must have a warning chat with some of my family ghosts and find out why they keep changing their first names from census to census - the little monkeys! |
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Unknown | Report | 4 Mar 2006 13:59 |
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Zoe When you say there is no clue on Charles' wife's death cert - how is she described in the occupation column? Doesn't it say 'wife of' or 'widow of'... nell |
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Zoe | Report | 4 Mar 2006 15:13 |
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Nell just says Kate Fenton, professional actress |
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Maggie in Leics | Report | 4 Mar 2006 15:20 |
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Zoe, At least your great great great granddad had the decency to marry your great great great grandma - my great great granddad got great great grandma in the family way, and then pootled off - never to be heard of again - didn't even leave me his name!!!! Great big hole on my tree where his branch ought to be!! LOL Maggie |
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