General Chat

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

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.

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,,,,,,.

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.

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.

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 !!