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Topic: Three wishes time travel (Read 1207 times)
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Viktoria
RootsChat Senior
Posts: 400
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Hi, my three would be:-I would ask my grandfather why he took his step-father`s surname when his younger sister kept their real father`s surname.It means that my father did not have his proper surname and so of course my sister and I had the wrong surname too.
I would ask my great -grandmother whatever happened when the 1891 census was being taken that she ended up being listed as Ester Johnson instead of Eliza Addy. It`s a good job her sister-in-law was with her on that date as otherwisw the riddle would have been well nigh impossible to solve as it was I had to get an enormous amount of help from RootsChatters.
My third would be to ask a relative who was the father of her child. It was rumoured it was her father who eventually shot her dead.However the general opinion was the lodger!!! If I can be cheeky I`d also ask where she and her hours old baby girl who didn`t even have a name are buried. This was 1914 and nowadays she`d get paid for it never mind shot!! Viktoria.
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Nick29
RootsChat Aristocrat
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I would like to ask my g.g. grandfather where he was born, what his parents names were, and whether his brother-in-law was also his brother, or merely someone with the same surname.
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Best Wishes, Nick. Research interests: Field - Luton & Islington Hole - Somerset, Suffolk & Surrey Farnish, Parker, Cattermole, Last, Wasp, Church - Suffolk Lewin/Lowin/Lowen - Hertfordhire Martin - Eltham & Greenwich, Kent (London) Stead - Greenwich, London (Kent) & Maidstone Wood - Hertfordshire Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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little meg
RootsChat Aristocrat
Posts: 2543
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Only 3 wishes  
Now that is a toughy, I think I would start with William Simpson (b.c. 1763, Yorkshire) and ask him who he did his blacksmith apprenticeship with - no records found there.
I think I would also want to know who his father was, even though we have a strong probability we do not have enough facts to say - yep - thats him for sure.
Ok, so I have just spent 2 wishes on just one ancestor, boy, hope he knows how special he is. 
3rd wish, hmmmm,
I think I will stick with the Simpsons, this time Joseph, (b. 1819 Kildwick, Yks), Williams grandson.
Did he set fire to the hay shed owned by John Taylor in Deniliquin, Australia in 1859?
He was acquitted, but you know, sometimes you just have to wonder, especially when you know about other things they got up to.
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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Olly
RootsChat Senior
Posts: 266
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If only...........
My first wish would be to my grandmother Draper to clear up just what went on between her and her first husband.
Did he leave because she was unfaithful - she seems to have had at least 3 illegitimate children, or did she throw him out because he had someone else. 1911 census shows him with another 'wife' and little boy.
My second wish to my great grandad Draper. I would like to know about his occupations. One census shows him as a Doctor of medicine, his marriage cert as a musician. When he died, he was working for a company that made spirited waters. What did he really do?
My third to my great great grandmother Cook to find out what happened to their daughter Martha and her husband Joseph Gott and that might answer the question as to why they brought up their grandson Henry.
There are a few similar questions like the last one in the family, but that one intrigues me most.
As I said ...if only!!!!!!!!!!!!
Olly
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Bulmer Draper - Lincoln, Glasgow, Aylesbury
Bulmer - York
Draper,Keogh- Lincolnshire, Middlesex, Liverpool, Ireland
Lowe, Massey - Liverpool
Lowe - Australia
Jones, Owens - Anglesey, Liverpool
Collinson - Middlesex,Birmingham,Liverpool
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genjen
RootsChat Marquessate
Posts: 3267
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My paternal great great grandmother, Jane Raitt, b. 1849 Aberdeen, - "Who was the father of your children?"
My maternal great grandfather, John ( or Matthew) Smith, b.1856 - 1862, Sunderland - " Who were your parents and why do you keep changing your name and date of birth?"
My maternal 3 x great grandmother, Ellen Cunion, b. c.1796 somewhere in Yorkshire, probably "Why is yours the only Cunion baptism which is missing? Was it to make life difficult for me some two hundred years later? Go on then, who were your parents and where were you born? And did you die before 1841 for the same reason - just so that I would never be able to go any further back on this line?"
So my questions are all asked out of frustration really. If I could answer these crucial questions, I just might get round to asking some more interesting ones about their lives!!
Jen
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Essex: Howe French Cant Annis Noakes Turner Marshall Makerow DUCK Spurden HARMONY
N.E.Scotland: Howe Shaw Raitt Milne Forsyth Birnie Crichton Duncan McBeath Daniel Hay Robertson Jaffrey Smith McDonald Alexander Craighead
NR Yorks: Bushby Smith Bland Iley Cunion Kendrew Thornbury Favell Lonsdale Crossland Rudd Pratt Gibson
Westmorland: Dickenson, Jackson Ewbank Waller
Staffs: White Knight
Surrey: Knight
Durham: Smith
Hants: Williams Grose Lush Venson
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kooky
RootsChat Aristocrat
Posts: 1477
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I am missing three 2xgt gr mothers. They were all Irish! 
I would like to ask Matilda Fisher nee Jones, father Thomas, who her mother was. Matilda was b. about 1843 in Enniskillen. She died in 1920 and was my maternal gt gr mother.
I would like to ask Henry Kane my paternal gt gr father who his mother was. His father was James and they were from Dundalk. Henry died in Glasgow in 1914.
I would like to ask John Edward Boshell my other paternal gr gr father who his mother was. His father was also John Edward and they both lived in Dublin. He was born about 1840.
Kooky
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Clulo - Staffs.,Warwickshire, Lancs.1780 -1950
Fisher- Nafferton,Hull, Manchester.1770-1840-1950
Kane&McNeill,Forkhill, Armagh and Glasgow,Bray Dublin.1850s -1920
Boshell and Dowzard- Dublin, 1840s -1911
Kay/Bremner Edinburgh 1800 - 1841.Kay Staffs.& Lancs1842 -1901
Kay - Newcastle on Tyne 1780-1861
Swindell[s], Marple & Manchester 1900->
Makinson, M/c & Prestwich 1870 ->
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