General Chat

While spending time with my Dad, he happened to say that his Grandfather would never leave the house without his hat on, which sorted out which of our G Grandfathers my cousin and I couldn't identify just by looking at a photo of him, now we know and just by that chance remark.

Susan - my father mentioned his grandmother a number of times but we couldnt' see how he could possibly know her as all his grandparents had passed away. One day not long before he passed away he mentioned that his grandmother wasn't really a grandmother but his grandfather's second wife who had been a lot younger than him. Dad had dementia at this stage and could remember a lot of things from the past. A little bit of research and we found the second wife's birth, marriage and death.

Sue xx

It is amazing what they say and they don't think it is relevant , I didn't know that my Grandfather was in the great war (he was a farmer) so thought he wouldn't be accepted for service, and I only found that out when I asked him if he recognized the person in the photo. If you know what I mean.

My sister being nine yrs older than me often comes up with little snippets as if I should know them, but is no help at all with family tree. As the only fair9White) haired child, I didnt know until recently that all my das nephews had the same colouring, proving in one sentence that my dad WAS my aunts half brother, not stepbrother, and that we were all blood relations.

It is quite amazing what a chance remark can uncover, have pieced together some mysteries from what my dad wrote in his memoirs and what his sister has written to me. Neither realizing that the info would help.

I also sorted out my Mums fostering by a memory of a chance remark.
It does pay to listen to "the oldies"

Some elderly rellies can give some worthwhile snippets about the past.Whether they are fact is something different.

I was always brought up to believe that my gt grandfather, and his younger siblings, were brought up by their father, after their mother died. A number of years later, seemingly, a young housekeeper appeared, looking for work, as she had a young son.

( According to my great aunt,now almost 93, they never lived together, but married a number of years later.)

When searching my tree , I find that they did, indeed marry, but had a son before doing so.!

I haven't the heart to say differently!

Gail

Something else my Dad thought was that my Grandmother on my Mums side who went to Australia and married a Freemantle, she did go to Australia but LIVED in Freemantle. Her married names were Vos and Pickles.