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Topic: What is the most exciting thing you have uncovered in your family? (Read 923 times)
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kerryb
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I have an extremely tenous link to Mad Jack Fuller, Eccentric English Gentleman and Squire of Brightling.
My fiance though has a link to Admiral Balchin and Nigel Balchin, screenwriter and Novelist who wrote Separate Lies, a recent film and he also invented the Aero bar and came up with the name Kit-Kat.
Kerry
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukSearching for my family - Baldwin - Sussex, Middlesex, Cork, Pilbeam - Sussex, Harmer - Sussex, Terry - Surrey, Kent, Rhoades - Lincs, Roffey - Surrey, Traies - Devon & Middlesex & many many more to be found on my website .... www.kerrysfamilyhistory.co.uk |
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Wendi
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Posts: 2976
Peeking into the past
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Almost everything...........but just now, that fact that my great uncle was one of the most innovative football managers of all time, AND we have just published the book about him
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,131073.0.html
 Wendi
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"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it! No matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and with your own common sense" ~ Buddha SCOTT ~ Monmouthshire & Glamorgan BUCKLEY ~ Cork & Manchester FRANKLIN ~ Clerkenwell, London BRADY ~ Kildare & Manchester DERICK ~ France FRIEND ~ Kent & Portsmouth TYLDESLEY ~ Lancashire http://www.themanchesters.org________________________________________ Census information posted here is Crown Copyright, from www.nati |
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Rewcastle
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Posts: 204
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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I got stuck on my 5th great grandfather (paternal side) and couldn't go any further back, so i decided to trace his cousin to see if i could go further back. He and future wife were witnesses to my 4th great grandparents wedding.
Anyhow he turned out to be quite a character.
He was 64 years old when he first got married and had his first child. 
He was charged and found guilty with assaulting a woman.
He put forward to the house of commons, a plan for the equalisation of weights and measures in 1814, the year before he died.
Now the clincher;
He was a Grandmaster of the Orange Association
All of my mothers family, both sides, have been Catholics who came from Ireland during the famine.
My dad's mothers side, also Catholics came from Ireland, they lived through the famine but came over after the rents went so high and were forced out and there was riots. (the rack rents).
My great grandfather was a protestant who married an Irish Catholic who's family had also came from Ireland during the famine.
My mothers grandfather used to sing rebel songs all the time. His favourite being, Kevin Barry
My Uncle was delivered by a woman who came over from Ireland and used to say about when the Black 'n Tans her street shooting at anything.
You don't know what skeletons are going to come out of the cupboard 
Rewcastle
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Burrow Digger
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I have a very weak link - by marriage only to a murderer. : 
My grandmothers sister married this bloke from Essex. The Essex bloke had an uncle who murdered the local bailiff in Essex. The uncle was was put on trial, declared guilty, and committed to an Asylum for the Criminally Insane.
http://www.foxearth.org.uk/PebmarshMurder.html
BD
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Lady Di
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There was a time, not so very long ago, when the word Convict was never mentioned in Australia.
Thank goodness times have changed as I am rather proud of my 17 convict ancestors (direct lines)
One poor little blighter (age 15) was sentenced to Life in Oz as he (and his mate) stole a handkerchief - unfortunately the mate picked the pocket of the local magistrate - Oops!
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scrattletrap
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I have very recently found out from a kind newly acquired cousin that my Great Grand Uncle Joe joined the navy during WW1 but he was constantly getting sick, so decided to jump ship, he went back to his sisters house who destroyed his uniform. To avoid the military police he joined the army, but couldn't use his own name so used his brothers, he went off to fight in Bagdad and was killed and is still recorded in his brothers name.
She very kindly sent me over pictures of him in both is navy ad army uniforms.
Sharon
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MarieC
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In Queensland, Oz
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My g-grandmother's younger brother, who also came to Australia, was a successful businessman, and Premier of Queensland for four years in the early 20th century (but much too conservative in his views for me!)
Two convicts, including one poor woman who had to leave several children behind her in England and never saw them again. She was transported for stealing a length of cloth!!! She remarried and had more children and lived to a ripe old age in Sydney.
A very prominent scientist and Fellow of the Royal Society, Sir Walter Noel Hartley. Active in England and Ireland, late 19th/ early 20th century. Not in my direct line but closely related.
MarieC
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Martins in London and Wales, Lockwoods in Yorkshire, Hartleys in London, Lichfield and Brighton, Hubands and Smiths in Ireland, Bentleys in London and Yorkshire, Denhams in Somerset, Scoles in London, Meyers in London, Cooks in Northumberland
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Lemontree
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Posts: 318
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Hi
I stumbed across a murder on Exmoor - the story of the murder is now in a book of murders on Exmoor. This man poisoned his wife by putting arsnic in the clotted cream!
I also know that my great- g - grandmother played host to RD Blackmoor when he went to Withypool and wrote Lorna Doone. There is a framed letter in the bar at the Royal Oak in Withypool, thanking my great grandmother for the hospitality. I knew this peice of information before I started any research as my great grandmother had told me.
Lemon
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Man of Kent
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Crowds celebrated as John Gurd plummeted to his death at the end of a hangman's rope. Gurd was convicted of shooting Enos Molden, the first Wiltshire police officer to die on duty.
John Gurd was one of mine 
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PrueM
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My lovely Nana 1922
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John Haynes, my g-g-grandfather, was a member of the NSW parliament for 37 years until 1916 and was a major player in the push for Federation in 1901. He also started the Bulletin magazine with JF Archibald - they went bankrupt within a couple of years, but Archibald seems to have made good, and funded the Archibald portrait prize which still runs today.
Finding that I had two convict ancestors (1817 and 1820) was pretty exciting, too!
No murderers, though (at least, not yet!) and definitely no major fortunes waiting to be claimed.
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I live in NSW, and am researching:
BALFOUR (Derry) – BIGG (Kent) – BONSALL (DBY, NTT, CHS) – BRISBANE (Fife) – DANKS (STS) – DOBSON (BRK) – FRANCIS (ESS) – GOODE (HAM) – HAYNES (Cork) – INGRAM (MDX, SOM) – LANGWORTHY (Jersey, DEV) – MCKAY (Fife, Aberdeen, Banff, Moray) – MORRISH (LND) – NANCARROW (CON) – OGILVIE (Moray, LND) – STRATHDEE (LND, Banff) - SWAN (Fife)
Census info Crown Copyright nationalarchives.gov.uk
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D ap D
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Posts: 1133
Stuck with John Jones in Wales? Join the club!
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One of my direct female ancestors was the sister of one of Guy Fawkes' mates.
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Stuck with: William Williams of Llanllyfni John Jones in Llanelli Evan Evans in Caio David Davies of Llansanffraid Evans: Caio/Carms Jones: CDG, DEN Census Information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk"Nor do I think that any other nation than this of Wales, or any other tongue, whatever may hereafter come to pass, shall on the day of the great reckoning before the Most High Judge, answer for this corner of the earth": The Old Man of Pencader to Henry II |
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keenbutconfused
RootsChat Member
Posts: 126
It was just an average working day on the quayside
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I've just found a Farmer in my family...believe me, in my family, that is exciting...
I've just ordered his death cert from 1842 and now hope to find out where he lived...mind you, as he was farming in Gateshead (Sheriff Hill) the chances of there still being a farm there are somewhat slim!)
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Joice, Coburn, Fairs - Easington, Durham villages, Jarrow, Hebburn, Monkwearmouth, Chester le Street, Gateshead, Haswell....she was only a coal miner's daughter (well, grand-daughter)
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