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Well I'm living in my Grt grt grandfather 's cow shed...LOL

Little did I know when I got his marriage cert that he lived in the old Farm House next door to me..

Now this cow shed is my converted Barn and I can still smell the cows that have long gone !!

along the same lines of addresses.

I have a cousin who lived in the same house for over 50 years until about 3 months ago.

A couple of years ago I was following up siblings etc of my dad's (and her's!) ancestors as they moved from agricultural life in Buckinghamshire to the cotton mills of Oldham. One marry-in was widowed and moved with her young family just before the 1881 census .................. I looked and looked at the address, thinking it was familiar


It was directly across the street from my cousin's house.

I was looking on the 1911 cencus the other day and found my OHs G.Grand parents . I thought , thats strange , I recognise the address......my best friend is living at the self same address in the here and now.........lol

Mind you , it's not actually the house they lived in as that was one of four old fishermans houses that where knocked down years ago but her house stands on the very spot.

Gtgt grandad shares his death date with 1 child birthday,gtgtg/mother died on another childs birthday.and the gts married on a grandchild birth..........when informed they shuddered,:}}}}

an adoptive mum died on same date 5th June as the birth mum...!! which is also a siblings birthday,,,,,,,! now that is spooky,,,,,,.

Another strange coincidenc in the echoes of time theme happened before I got into genealogy.
My ex & I were living in a caravan on the borders, when he got a job in Blackmore End, near Braintree, Essex.
Not long after we moved, my sister and her husband letf ireland and came over to stay with us. brother in law got a job in Lowestoft, Suffolk.
When we went to visit, at Ipswich, we turned off and went by the A12, rather than the A40.
We passed a place called Yoxford - which usually started me singing 'Yoxford Town' - with apologies to Bob Dylan's 'Oxford town'.

Transpires my gg grandparents retired to Yoxford from a nearby hamlet.
Not only that, by going up the A12, we passed through a corridor of where generations of my ancestors had lived, in little hamlets/villages just off the road.

Hi Jill (Mrs Grumpy)
What a coincidence, my dad was 42 when I was born, and I was 42 when he died. F.

My mother died in 1961, when I was 21

I have always forgotten the date on which loved ones died ....... I guess that's my way of coping.

Daughter was born on March 24th 1974


About 1990, I was sent a photo of Mum's grave .............. she died on March 24th.


In the last year, I have discovered 2 other ancestors who died on March 24th:-

My dad's dad died March 24 1914

My mum's grandfather died March 24 1909



Daughter is now expecting her first child.

Due date? March 30th


Any one take any bets?????



sylvia

Fifth generation.
My first grandson was born on my great grandfather's 150th birthday.

Like I said before, Amanda - sharing a space isn't much different to sharing a time - only we can see one, and not the other.

Mystic Meg x

Wow Sue......thats a good one .

Echoes across time indeed : ))

xx

Here's one from me:

I've always loved Bamburgh (if you don't know, it's a very small village in north Northumberland) . Every time I go there, I say to my cynical daughter "echoes across time, here". To which she says "Rubbish etc etc"

I recently started to trace my father's family tree. He left us when I was only three or four, so starting on this "adventure" I did with mixed feelings.

Anyway, a few years prior to that, , I bought a caravan in Bamburgh, on a small farm site called Glororum. I've always felt especiallly at home there.

So, when I started to trace my dad's tree, I found that his gr grandfather had come over from Ireland in the 1800's - and ended up as a farm labourer in - Glororum (population, at the time - 12) . How he managed to find his way there, given that he landed in Liverpool and must have passed hundreds of labouring jobs en route, I'll never know.

Sue x

I thought my dad's family were all London based for generations.

I started doing genealogy when i moved up here over 5 yrs ago now.......and I was amazed to discover that most of dad's side came from this way and had moved to London (and surrounding areas) in the late 1800s.

Seems I came *home* without knowing it !!! Which is odd as I felt immediately comfortable here.......even though we'd moved over 100 miles away xx

Frederick you just reminded me of something.

My dad died when he was 64. His dad died aged 64.

My mum died when she was 72. Her mum died aged 72.

Jill

(by the law of averages and all other things being equal it looks like I'll die at age 68!)

Echoes across time, Maggie

Sue x

aww Granny thats sad ..

My mums family come from Southampton. We knew gran was in service in Steep, near Petersfield.
When I moved to Winchester I thought I was the first - not so!
Gran said she lived here.
When she met grandad (who lived in Southampton) she got a job in Winchester as cook for the master of Music at the college.
I have seen the house she worked in, and every day pass by what used to be the station where she got her train to Southampton (now closed, and a car park!)

You have just made me realise how long ago my 2 Grandfathers died,
both died at the age of 37 years, 1 in 1888, and the other in1896.
1 grandmother remarried in 1890, so my 3rd grandfather died in 1928.

F.

That's what we do, Amanda - bring the past into the here and now.

I find it so strange when I find where an ancestor used to live and I take myself off there. Often the house itself isn't there any more, but I think: know what, Sue, you're sharing a bit of space with someone who went before. You never knew them, and they surely never knew you, but you're sharing the same space. Maybe not sharing the same time, but....

( and of course, Hello to Rachael)


Sue xx

My coincidence this year has been awful, My Mum died on April 2nd, that as my granddaughters 16th birthday, then my one and only aunt Mum;s sister passed away on daughters birthday, we went on our cruise to celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary, it was also other granddaughter 15th birthday and we got phone call to tell us hubby's brother had passed away, he was cremated on our anniversary, so 2009 was not a good year for me and i will be glad to see the back of it.

GG.

Thats lovely Crystalcat : ))