General Chat

I am sure I remember my dad saying his aunt married a doctor and went off to america..........

unless I HAVE got that wrong the "American experience" all happened in the east end of london....

Bob

I know this is not the subject,but has anyone heard from TONYOZ,I havn't seen him on for ages,Love his wit.

Re TonyOz. He is just posting on the WattleClub Aussie thread. Think it is on General.

I envy you being able to talk to your older rellies about family history. By the time I started this pursuit all mine had most inconveniently passed away.

And about the circus. Well that is one thing I have discovered. The OH's great and great, great grandfathers were circus clowns.

My gran told me her grandad John Worsley died in Canada - turns out he actually died in Lancaster Lunatic Asylum when his only child (great-grandma) was ten years old and it was his brother Ralph who was a cotton merchant going to Canada from Liverpool and back so many times he should have been on a bit of elastic and Ralph's children who went to live in Canada.

But now I've delved into this family, I'm starting to believe that they were possibly the most prosperous and/or well-to-do family in my whole tree! One sister married a solicitor and their son went to Uppingham school, this Ralph was a merchant, his brother James was a solicitor and deputy coroner and another sister married a man who ran a paper mill - and their father was a "cotton spinner" employing 160 people so I doubt he did any spinning! Further back, the uncle of these children was a vicar and their grandfather actually owned a cotton mill.

So I'm left wondering two things - how did none of this information filter down to my gran (unless she did know and didn't mention it) and who on earth has got the money now? (Unless they spent it on public education, domestic servants and shipping costs!)

My gran always maintained that her younger brother was unable to work all his life due to being gassed in WW1.
Turns out he got as far as France, spent 3 weeks in hospital there & was discharged on health grounds & sent back to England. He never saw a trench. Digging a bit further I discovered that he had a "weak chest"all his life & was sent to a sanitorium in the south of England for 3 years from the age of 12.
Marion

When I first started researching my tree,I got my paternal gt grandads Marriage cert,that stated his wife was born in Eyam Derbyshire.

I then remembered mum telling me that it was rumoured that dads family could by traced to one of the original survivers of the 1665/6 Plague.

IT only took me about a week to find out that it was true because Eyam Parish records are so well transcripted.

Still havn't found out who my maternal Grandmother was though!!

Bonnie Prince Charlie did marry - but had no known children
Liz

I have just googled Bonnie Prince Charles and found out that he 1.Had a mistress and a daughter Charlott, 2. Then he married a woman and had another,very interesting,I wonder if it was an arranged marriage?Don't know what happened to the kids.His second is thought to of been a spy?

Aunty Sherlock-So glad Tonys O.K. It was making me nervous not seeing his name,with all the sad news of late.Many thanks.

Didn't know he had children - I thought his father had a mistress???
Think he was a bit of a mystery all round
Liz

According to my family my Gt uncle played in the first World Cup, well Lipton Cup, West Auckland against Jueventis

Went to his house to see the man that he had 'raised' from a child, and yep he had the medals plus all the original BMD's going back to my gt gt grandmother and wouldn't let me have them and he was not even related!!

Sod the medals but I wanted the certs :(

Kim x

btw I never got the medals either lol

I was always told that my grandfather's first wife and child had
"drowned in Ireland".

Eventually I found her death certificate- she died in London
age 33 of Tertiary Syphillis !

Baby disappears from all records soon after birth & christening.

Bit of a shock to the family! lol

xxxxxx mick

I love those one's Mick!
At my great aunt's funeral, I met another great aunt who had been 'ostracised' (sp) because she had an illegitimate daughter courtesy of a GI - who she later married!
My mum took her to one side and informed her that her (g aunt's)mother had been a hypocrite, as she and 9 of her 10 siblings were illegitimate!! LOL

(see my earlier posting re Mrs P)

Not sure great aunt apreciated ths info though!!

Just found out one of my great grandmothers was a bigamist. Marriage certificate stated she was a widow. First husband did not die until after she was married nearly 6 years to my great grandfather. Not a bit of information from the family on this either. Her father was also a witness to the second marriage.

Not a thing was spoken of about convict ancestors, to date I have about 20 direct conivt ancestors.

One many great granny was supposed to have died on a shipwreck, she ran off with another bloke and lived a long life.

The list goes on.

Gail

I grew up being told that my Great,Great Grandfather was a Methodist missionary who went to Fiji with his 16 year old bride,converted the Fijian chief to Christianity etc.The cannibal tribes didn't like this,so ate the Rev.Turns out there was quite a lot of truth in it-except that his bride was 22,not 16;there WAS an uprising by the tribes against the Rev., BUT he wasn't eaten,just made a hasty exit.The family was supposed to be the first white family there-wrong-there had been traders coming back and forth for a while,and my ancestor was supposed to be the first white baby
born there,that could have been true,I don't really know.One of the children born there married a Dr. Robert Lindsay,and their children were the famous bohemian artists,painters,sculptors,authors etc (the Magic Pudding,Blinky Bill,etc.) That was true.Also ,my father always said that I was the first girl for 5 generations,and that I was a 5th generation Aussie-I'm actually a 4th generation Aussie,and the 1st girl in 4 generations,as my almost namesake died coming out here on the ship in the 1850's.My Dad would not have known about her,so I can forgive him that one.I don't know anything about Mum's side of the family as they were never really talked about.

One of my ggg grandfathers was a man of means and had a large property with his brother, very wealthy in the end, though this side is still poor, and survived without ill gotten gains.

Nobody told me he got his money by stealing checks from the post office (he was a postal deliver) money was not recovered, he was transported and a brother and sister followed 6 months later.

Gail

liz47 - was not the Young Pretender his son, or grandson but he was so far removed from the line of heiredity because of his Polish blood, that he did not stand a chance. I will stand corrected on this, if I have got it wrong
Julia ion Derbyshire

Will have to look on google for more details - my school history days are long gone!
Liz

My OH was told that he was descended from Sir Timothy & Lady Bailes of Diss in Norfolk.......what a load of rubbish....got this sorted now but members of his family don't agree.