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Topic: Who's your favourite ancestor? (Read 996 times)
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Lady Di
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the only ancestor of mine who stands out in a distant one who was on a hospital ship back home when it was topedoed and he was never found.
Would that ship be the Centaur, Marie?
My father was one of the few survivors from the Centaur.
Di
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MOULE :Whaddon/Cambs SMITH :SSX/Brighton and Birmingham TATTERSALL : NSW,SSX/Brighton GINGER : London AGGS : Norfolk & London GOODWIN : Kent Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Erato
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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 
Hmm. a very similar situation allegedly occurred in my family [except the sisters were not twins and no poisoning was involved]. My g grandmother was the resulting illegitimate child. How did you go about researching this? I am getting absolutely nowhere in confirming that this really happened in my family and so my g grandmother's ancestry has had to remain just a hypothetical.
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Wiltshire: Banks, Taylor
Somerset: Duddridge, Richards, Barnard, Pillinger
Gloucestershire: Barnard, Marsh, Crossman
Bristol: Banks, Duddridge, Barnard
Down: Ennis, McGee
Wicklow: Chapman, Pepper
Wigtownshire: Logan, Conning
Wisconsin: Ennis, Chapman, Logan, Ware
Maine: Ware, Mitchell, Tarr
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little meg
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My gr grandmother's brother Joseph Simpson.
Simply because there is a lot of information on him and I feel like I know him really well.
All kinds of things have turned up in a local paper, accused of arson, accidently blew off a finger whilst cleaning a gun, was a blacksmith then became a publican, a couple of horses that went missing. Lots of rivalry in the town and brilliant descriptions and conversations taken from court cases.
A real character and of novel material
Margaret
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Please scan all pics at 300-600 DPI for restoration purposes, thankyou.
Simpson-Kildwick,Yorkshire & Australia, Overend-Sutton, Kildwick,Yorkshire & Australia, Whitaker - Cononley/Yorkshire, Pickard - Silsden/Yorkshire, Howarth - Skipton/Yorkshire and Lancashire, Heaton-Yorkshire, Preston-Yorkshire, Myers-Yorkshire & Australia, Wild-Yorkshire & Australia. Storey-Middlesex/Australia
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Mogsmum
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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It's interesting that, with some exceptions, most people have gone for ancestors of their grt.grandparents generation.... and so have I!
I can't decide between my paternal grt.grandmother who (when her Mother died) left school at 8 to cook, clean and keep house for her Father and 4 older brothers (the youngest of whom was her senior by 20 years)
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my Gran's aunt. Born in 1853 she went to Canada alone in 1871, stayed 2 years came back to the UK, married and had 5 children. In 1909 her eldest son, James, went to Australia and, when her husband died a year later, Grace went out to join James. There was a 'falling out', so Grace moved away from him. 10 years later (at the age of about 67) she returned to the UK, bought a 'farm' (smallholding) which she worked alone until she was in her 80s. By this time, she and James were back on speaking terms, so she went back to Aus. to live with him and his family. There was yet another falling out so, in 1946 she set off to spend 3 years in New Zealand where another son lived! Around 1950 (aged 93) she decided she 'wanted to die at home' and returned to the UK - just in time for my christening in June that year. My last photo of her shows her playing on my swing with me, in my grandparent's garden, 2 months before her death - in 1954!
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