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Topic: Who's your favourite ancestor? (Read 998 times)
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mahees
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After all I've found out about my ancestors over the years, I still can't help but love my Great Grandfather, Frank Roby (1884-1923) who started my obsession with genealogy.
http://21st-battalion-8.tripod.com/roby_f.html
Who is your favourite ancestor and why?
Erin 
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wini
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My favourite ancestor was Isabella Gunn, Born in Durness Sutherland in 1852 and died in Durness age 56.
She was variously described as an idiot or a lunatic, however, I feel she must have been a quiet gentle soul as after her parents died she went to live with her sister and brother in law and their children and several members of her family named their children Isabella or Isy.
The terminology in the 19th Century was pretty cruel.
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Gunn, Cree, Reid,McNeice, Munro, McPhee
Jackson, Gillies,Gebbie. McCredie, nicolson, McAskill,
MacKinnon,Morrison,Campbell,
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KathMc
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I would have to say mine is my gg grandmother, Sarah Heintz Schmieg (1856-1927). Her mother died some time between her birth and 1860. By 1870, she she is in Queens, NY, some 400 miles from her father, and her brother and sister have died. And then by 1878 she is married with her first child. She had gone to live with her mother's childless sister and husband, and then was mistreated by the sister and her other aunts and uncles, only to come out on top. I think she must have been a strong lady and I am keen on finding out about the missing years.
Kath
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Sligo: Davey (also Mayo), McCluskey, McNulty
Wexford and Staffordshire: Hayes, McClean
Galway and Staffordshire: Scott
Coventry: Wells, Collins, Palmer, Moody, Beck, Mickelwright, Husbands
Ireland: McNulty (Sligo), Kealy, Murphy (Carlow) Connolly, Gillen, Powell, Ryan, Moore, Martin
Davis from I don't know where originally
Stahl, Russia to England to USA
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stoney
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...so many "trees" - what's a dog to do!
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Um - which to choose...?
Well, I think my 5xGt Grandfather, John Hounam, had a bit of gumption about him when he stood up to Bonnie Prince Charlie's men!
Perhaps that should be "ran away"! Hearing that his livestock would be confiscated to feed BPC's army, he ran his sheep and cattle up a hill into woodland to hide it.
Even braver was the wife he left at home (still a-bed, having just given birth!) - when confronted with men brandishing swords and demanding to know where the menfolk (and the livestock!) were, she refused to tell - whereupon the soldiers (in a fit of pique!?) trashed the place and slashed at the furniture. There are still sword marks on the beams of what's left of the original dwelling.
Having thought about it, perhaps my 5xGt Grandmother Jean (Elliot) Hounam is my real favourite ancestor!
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Beattie, Beveridge, Carson, Davidson, Hounam, Johnston, Purdon, Rae, Stevenson, - Scotland. Brown, Bulman, Cooke, Harding, Meyers, Osborne, Routledge - England
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Jillie42
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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I find my husband's grandmother quite fascinating - probably for all the wrong reasons!  
She slept with her twin sister's husband and had his baby, then (according to family legend) tried to poison another of her sisters 
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Eaton (Woughton on the Green, Doncaster and N. London), Davis(Shinfield and London), Harrington (Ireland and London), Sutcliffe (Todmorden and London), Williams, Hollingsworth (Thaxted), Lane (Rotherhithe), Fuller (Chesterton, Cambs), Dilley (who knows where?  ) |
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Nutty1966
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My admiration goes out to my great grandma Annie Isabel Rice, Annie had a real tough life, loosing both parents before the age of 9, she was then placed in the workhouse, her brothers were sent on to live with relations. Annie eventually left the workhouse and married and settled in Middlesbrough, she sadly lost 3 babies, they are all buried together in Linthorpe, Middlesbrough.
Annie sadly does the year before I was born, I would have loved to have known her, my mum says she was a very proud lady. God bless them all
Jane
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LEICESTERSHIRE & MIDDLESBROUGH - BOLLANDS, GORE, LINCOLNSHIRE - BAKEWELL, MARRIOTT MONAGHAN & CRAMLINGTON - RICE LAZENBY - HANSOM, HARRISON, NODDINGS, EASBY BARNBY DUN - HARVEY, BLANCHARD DANBY & WHITBY - JEFFELS LIVERPOOL - GANDER SKELTON & ESTON - SEATON BEDALE & MIDDLESBROUGH - STEPHENSON BROUGHTON - HARRISON MIDDLESBROUGH - WARD,FOSTER PINCHINTHORPE - POSTGATE BILSDALE- BOYES Cenusu informations is from crown copyright www.nationalarchives.gov.uK |
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aspin
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Ready for the off in my Black and White
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Mine has to be my Grt grandmother Isabella Birnie McKenzie ( nee Watson )who married at the age of 16 in 1875
Sailed off to New Zealand with her husband Adam and baby Eleanor in Nov 1877 from Glasgow ,loosing her baby on the way at the age of 23 months ( poor little mite buried at sea somewhere ) She became pregnant on the journey with my granda ,He must have been in good health ,..she lost the next baby William again at 23 months old buried in New Zealand
Lost a girl after that another Eleanor then came home to Scotland with 3 of her children a widow
Re-married in 1894 had a little girl Ormuz 1895 only to loose her at the age of 15
I think she must have been a very strong lady
Elizabeth
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elaine447
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my favourite ancestor is my mum's aunt
when mum was born her mother was to ill to look after her
so her sister took mum to live with them
a few years and a couple of children later her mum died aged 35
their father's family wanted to put the children into care but
Maw Nellie said over her dead body so between their father and
maw Nellie and her husband the three of them raised 7 children
she lived to 96 and buried 5 of those children and I never heard
her complain
Elaine
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Given,McCorkindale,Kennaway,Wylie,Cameron,Mooney,McCloskey,Black,
McCafferty,Gillespie,Jamieson,Keith,Adam,Quigley,Ainslie,
McHugh,Malone,Fisher,Burns,Gallacher,Nelson,Dunleavy,Brannan,
Docherty,McCluskey,Fitzpatrick,Barclay, Peacock
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mahees
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Thanks for all your answers,
The weird and wonderful stories we uncover as researchers are always fascinating ! 
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Bill749
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crowdin' 60 and still wearin' genes!
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Mine would have to be my grandma - she was a really lovely person.
Rosina Mary Sawyer was born at 14 Hartley Street, Hougham (Dover) on 6 March 1885, the daughter of William Sawyer, labourer at the Oil Mills, and Elizabeth Graves Sawyer (nee Holmans). She was baptised at Christ Church, Hougham in Dover, on 29 April 1885.
She married William Thomas Beer on Christmas Day 1906 at the Congregational Church, Dover. They had six children: Lilian Rose, Ethel Maud, Alice Elizabeth (who died aged 8 months), Winifred May, William Alfred, and Doris Violet.
In December 1917 William was killed by a shell near Ypres; she brought up her children on her own with only a war-widow’s pension. 
She let out rooms (one bedroom and the front sitting room) in their tiny, 3-bedroom house to a lodger to help make ends meet; the youngest girl shared grandma's bed, dad had a small bed in her room, and the other three girls shared a bed in the third bedroom.
For the majority of her life she shared her home with her sister-in-law Rebecca Minnie Beer (Auntie Min) who was profoundly deaf and an inveterate nosey parker!
After WW2 her eldest daughter moved back with her son to live with them in a flat above a shop in Folkestone. They later moved into a council house.
She had a hard life but I never knew her have a cross word for anyone. She adored children and we were always made welcome at her home in Folkestone, where she died in September 1970, shortly before we were married. I still miss her.
Bill
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Banks, Beer, Bowes, Castle, Cloak, Coachworth, Dixon, Farr, Golder, Graves, Hicks, Hogbin, Holmans, Marsh, Mummery, Nutting, Pierce, Rouse, Sawyer, Sharp, Snell, Willis: mostly in East Kent. Ey, Sawyer: London Evans: Ystradgynlais, Wales Snell: Snettisham, Norfolk Knight, Burgess, Ellis: Hampshire Purdy: Ireland/Canada/Durham/Pennsylvania McCann: Ireland Morrow: Pennsylvania Sparnon: any Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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