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Half Pint
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Posts: 443
my wonderful mum and dad
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all of us at some point
I cried when I found my first ancestor in the workhouse in 1901. He was 74 and was probably in the hospital part but it still made me cry.
The worst [althought there maybe more to come] was when I found a gr aunt had lost 5 children in 4 years due to consumption.
In a way its why we do this, we find out the truth and so they will never be forgotten.
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Bedfordshire: Chapman, Norris Cumberland: Bone, Casson, Ellwood, Harrington, Harrison, Huddleston, Mawson, Rooney, Singleton, Stephenson, Tunstall, Tyson, Wedgwood, Whitehead, Wilson, Woodall Hertfordshire: Chapman, Seymour Ireland: Macken, McAvoy, Rooney Lancashire: Casson, Dixon, Huddleston, Hunter, Muschamp, Skirrow Stephenson, Tyson Staffordshire: Burslem, Tunstall, Wedgwood Yorkshire: Harrison, Lund, Roberts, Swire Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov. |
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Gaille
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Posts: 429
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Hello  I didn't think it would be so sad when you find familes that just have nothing. I haven't been doing this for long and was so eager to see how they lived and where. I didnt think I would end up crying over people that I didn't know. Does this happen to anyone else or is it just me?
LOL Sheesh yes!
I have cried buckets over my lot over the years!
I am terrible in Churchyards, i even cry over complete strangers graves if the inscription is particularly sad! ............ and if they are one of 'mine' I am terrible!
I do get very involved with some of my families stories - my dads gt-grandma has realy got to me - she had (at least) 15 children - that I have found so far - and in there she had 3 sets of Fraternal male/female twins, but lost a lot of her children before adulthood, and one of her twins giving birth to her 1st grandchild............ for some reason Margaret and her family realy got to me.
Gaille
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Manchester – Bate(s) / Bebbington / Coppock or Coppart / Evans / Mitchell / Prince / Smith
Cheshire Latchford – Bibby / Savage / Smith.
Cheshire Macclesfield, Bollington & Rainow – Childs / Flint / Mc'rea
Cheshire Crewe – Bate(s) / Bebbington
Shropshire Wellington, Wobwell – Smith
Walsall Midds – Smith
Also looking for:
Mc'Rea/McCrea – Ireland to Cheshire
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any relatives of Margaret Bibby married to Thomas Smith all over country
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greensleeves
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Posts: 357
Greensleeves
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That is what gets to me - the infant mortality rate. Seven babies born, seven babies die.... And then I find a family with a clutch of healthy children and my heart is in my mouth with each census to find out if they are okay or not. And then I watch as the children leave home, go into service, marry and have children of their own. And then without warning, their parents are in the workhouse, and I start crying all over again.
Oh dear (grabbing hankie) and this is the Lighter Side?!
Greensleeves, trying to pull herself together....
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Suffolk: Pearl(e) & variations - Brettenham, Hitcham,Rattlesden; Waddilove - Rattlesden and possibly Norfolk. Garnham - Belstead, Ipswich & area.
Durham/Yorkshire: Sedgwick - West Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Leeds, Merrington.
Shadforth - Hartlepool/Stockton
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Paul Caswell
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My saddest is my gt grandfather who was born just a few months after his father died. This little boy lived his whole life without a father. Think of what he missed!!
His mother supported all four children on her own throughout their lives. She never remarried. That must have been hard too.
Paul
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Caswell - Durham(Jarrow), Northumberland(Berwick), Dorset(Netherbury) Drury - Middlesex(Kensington), Shropshire(Selattyn) Turner - Dorset(Parkstone) Speight - Essex(Braintree), Kent(Gravesend), Westmorland(Kendal) Stockley - Dorset(Corfe Castle) Amey - Suffolk(Haverill) Cousins - Norfolk(Ketteringham) Sears - Bedfordshire(Potton), Cambridgeshire(Gamlingay) Census information is Crown Copyright
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kaydoubleu27
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Posts: 154
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.natio
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Hi everyone
This has got me with a lump in my throat!
Some of my saddest moments were my gg grandfather who was still working as a docker in his 70's and another who was listed in the 1871 census as a pauper in the workhouse but the one who really got to me was my grandmother who's father died 3 months before she was born. I recently found out he died when he fell down the steps of a cellar and his wife also brought their children up on her own.
Makes you realise when you find out how hard their lives were how lucky we are today.....
Kim
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Murphy - Yorkshire (mainly Goole), Guernesy & Ireland
Ward, Broadhead, Laverack, Duckels, Skelton, Williamson, Crowther, Lambert, Clark - Yorkshire
Smart, Dalton - Yorkshire & Lincolnshire
Bradley - Kent
Deamen - Wiltshire
Shave - Dorset
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kaydoubleu27
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Posts: 154
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.natio
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The world turns in a funny way doesn't it when the government has recently decreed that companies CAN force their employees to retire at 65 
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Murphy - Yorkshire (mainly Goole), Guernesy & Ireland
Ward, Broadhead, Laverack, Duckels, Skelton, Williamson, Crowther, Lambert, Clark - Yorkshire
Smart, Dalton - Yorkshire & Lincolnshire
Bradley - Kent
Deamen - Wiltshire
Shave - Dorset
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kaydoubleu27
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Posts: 154
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.natio
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Ohhh I forgot about gt-gt-grandad ! I have him on every single cencus from 1841 to 1911, and he will be on 1921 when it comes out On the 1911 he was aged in his 70s still working as an AgLab as he had since he was a young boy - I have him working aged 12 on the 1851 cencus .............. he survived over 65 years working out n all weathers .......... and died in 1922. His death Cert says he died of 'Lack of nourishment & Malaise following the sudden death of his daughter" ........... His Daughther, my gt-grandma, died on the operating table 2 months before him, my grandads step-mum who knew both of them told us once that he 'died of a broken heart' after she died, she was his youngest daughter and by all accounts he adored her. Seems so sad that he survived over 60 years working as an AgLab to die in such sad circumstances. Gaille
Kim
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Murphy - Yorkshire (mainly Goole), Guernesy & Ireland
Ward, Broadhead, Laverack, Duckels, Skelton, Williamson, Crowther, Lambert, Clark - Yorkshire
Smart, Dalton - Yorkshire & Lincolnshire
Bradley - Kent
Deamen - Wiltshire
Shave - Dorset
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Gensleuth
RootsChat Member
Posts: 156
Where are they?
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On one branch of the tree, I had a family of 7 in the 1841 census.
They all died within 2 years of each other, [probably cholera or some such]
Doesnt say cause in PR
Then there is a family of 6 living in a one up,one down [4 other families living in the same house]
One woman commits suicide by hanging after her husband died at sea in WW1, leaving 2 children who both died in WW2.
There are probably more if only I had the time and money to investigate census returns, death certs etc.
All part of the unsewn rich tapestry of history
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GAUNT N Staffordshire,GAUNT Manchester.GUY,Shropshire, BARTLEY,Salford, Lancs, NEVILLE,Salford. PHILLIPS,Staffs, MAYER,Staffs,COSSAR,Berwick, E and Mid Lothian and Argyll. HIGGINS,Glasgowand Dunoon,Argyll.GALLAGHER,Argyll,IRISH,Herts.
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