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liverbird09
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We also like to visit the places where our ancestors once lived. It enriches the whole research experience and adds excitement when you see the street or even the house they occupied..wonderful.
So far we have been to Edinburgh, Glasgow, Cotswolds, Chester, Tarporley,Ormskirk, Cornwall & Devon and have visited most of the record offices too.
We had the most moving experience at Thiepval war memorial in France, where my Grandfather's name is amongst those thousands of young men who died at the Somme.
We have met many kind and helpful folk along the way and had a few moments of serendipity. Maybe our ancestors are approving of our visits. 
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Viktoria
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I know what you mean, this summer I visited the Church where my great,great grandparents were married and stood at the altar, then went to the font where my great grandmother(their
daughter) was Baptised, stayed to the service and then into the graveyard where some of the family are buried. This in rural Lincolnshire.
I`ve done it too in the wilds of Shropshire and for a time lived in the Shropshire home of my late grandmother who was the daughter-in-law of the great grandmother mentioned above .Things had not changed much in Shropshire and I was so pleased to think my grand and great grand parents had handled hymn books and sat on pews that I was touching and so on.Walked the paths and opened gates and looked at trees and even smelt the roses that were still in the garden from when they lived in the house. A large yellow/cream heavily scented climbing rose that grew into the bedroom when the small windows were open throughout the summer .I felt very in touch with them all, even those -like my grandma - who died before I was born. Ah, memories,Viktoria.
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LindaJ1959
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I haven't had the chance to do this yet, but it's definitely in my plans. I live just north of Liverpool, but was born in Bournemouth and have discovered that many generations of one of my lines lived in the village of Stourton Caundle in Dorset. I've looked at pictures of the village online, but I long to walk down that street myself!
Regarding more recent ancestry, I'm particularly proud to be a fourth generation native of Bournemouth - there aren't that many of us about, Bournemouth being such a young town! - and have therefore walked in their footsteps quite a lot.
Linda
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Francis, Sopp, Durrant, Hatcher and Read: all in Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire and Hampshire. Poynter, Fidler. Rolfe, Hedges and Scorey: all in Hampshire. Allen: Dorset/Somerset/Wiltshire, and Longford, Derbyshire. Miles: Bournemouth. Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Gensleuth
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2 years ago, I visited one of the surviving 'ancestral homes' in Staffordshire.
I proceeded to take photos of the building from across the road.
The owner came out and asked me what I was doing. I explained and he invited me in.
What used to be a farmhouse is now a guest house.
It turned out that it had been in his family for over 150 years and was part of a farm until 1990. The previous owners or tenants being my ancestors.
Quite interesting to sit in a building where your ancestors last sat about 1855
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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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LizzieW
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I followed in some of my ancestors footsteps last year, in Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. Very interesting, took lots of photos.
Lizzie
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BENSON- Dalton in Furness (Ulverston) and Hull
BETTISON - Derbys
BOULTON - Dalton-in-Furness and surrounding areas
BRAND - Lincs
COCKETT - Lincs, Yorks, Lancs
DA COSTA (or variants) - Spain or Portugal, London (Middx), ?Hull
GILCHRIST - Scotland, Lincs
HINGLEY - Derbys/Yorks
MANN - Sussex, Kent, Herts
MUMBY - Lincolnshire and Hull
PEMBERTON - Ches, Lancashire
STANTON - Lincs
ROBINSON - Lincs
WHITTAKER/WHITAKER - Ches/Lancs
WRIGHT- Bethnal Green
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Viktoria
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There was a very sad event in my extended family back in 1914. The woman was my grandmother`s cousin.Briefly , she was accidentally shot ( dead) and her father ran for help and took his young grandsons with him , They lived in a remote valley and had quite a way to go down a rough track, in the dark.In later years there were more houses built and 70 + years after the event we stayed in one which did B&B. By coincidence it was the anniversary of it all, and I stood at the window and looked out at the extreme darkness which you only now get in remote rural places sheltered from light pollution and I imagined the two terrified little boys who had just witnessed their mother`s violent death and their grandfather`s anguish because his negligence was a prime cause. The three would have to have passed the point where I was looking out into the darkness .So I waited and waited , I willed something to happen but nothing did. I have vsited the ruins of their cottage and expected to feel somehing but again nothing at all, it is quite disappointing -but I`d die of fright I`m sure so it`s as well isn`t it? Viktoria
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liverbird09
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Viktoria, what a story.
That is a shocking event for two wee boys to witness. Some of our ancestors lived through dreadful moments, didn't they? Those times are best left in the past.
Perhaps a time machine may not be such a good idea, if we have to see the horrors as well as the nice bits.
Jean
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kooky
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I have been to visit the 'shack' in Carrickasticken, Forkhill, Co.Armagh, where my gt gt gr mother Jane Stewart McNeill was living in the 1901 census aged 91. [she did have a fowl house and a piggery!]
I found myself in Newcastle upon Tyne with an hour to spare and wandered into St.Johns church,where there was an open day, and stood in front of the altar where my gt gt gt gr parents John Kay and Margaret Watson were married in 1818.
I visited Rushton Spencer in Staffs. and went to St Lawrence's church where James Clulo was christened in 1779. He was my 4xgt gr father.
I have been to Dublin and taken photos of all the addresses where my family were living in the 1870s and 80s. I went to Mount Jerome cemetery to look for a Dowzard Grave - my gt gt gr parents, but there was no headstone.
There are more places and buildings to visit. It has to be done!
Kooky
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« Last Edit: Wednesday 04 November 09 21:30 UTC (UK) by 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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Viktoria
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I wonder if when we are dead and gone , our descendants will toil up steep paths,struggle through undergrowth , spend hours looking up records,be on their computers until they can barely see , spend holidays in graveyards and "talk" to people who physically are not there?,
Well our "records " will be readily available ,perhaps by our own efforts but I mean them getting that thrill that comes from of being in places where we have been, seeing what we have seen and touching what we have touched.
My daughter is not sentimental ,chucks birthday cards out a couple of days after the event, keeps practically nothing, my grandchildren are like her. Me? Iv`e got EVERYTHING---even my dried up shrivelled wedding bouquet,nearly into dust now( Miss Haversham has nothing on me!)---BUT, I`ve got to be ruthless. Love letters burnt already,birthday cards from when I was one  Ooo I don`t know -- they come under Social History surely.  I`ll think about it tomorrow.Watch T.V for ,well not A life of Grime but something like " Did She Ever Throw Anything Away" . Viktoria.
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LizzieW
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I tend to throw everything out too, apart from my first birthday cards, but then mum kept those and now I have them. However, I haven't got my childrens first birthday cards. I suppose the thinking was that the cards were so readily available that there wasn't much point in keeping them. 
Love letters I did burn, but only because a boyfriend at the time (now husband) wanted to see the letters I'd kept from someone my husband refers to as My One True Love and I didn't want him to read them - in reality they were very innocent and hardly love letters at all, just letters written to me as he had been sent away by his mother to another county. If I'd still been living at home, he wouldn't have seen them, but parents had moved house and I moved into a rented room and took all my possessions with me.
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BENSON- Dalton in Furness (Ulverston) and Hull
BETTISON - Derbys
BOULTON - Dalton-in-Furness and surrounding areas
BRAND - Lincs
COCKETT - Lincs, Yorks, Lancs
DA COSTA (or variants) - Spain or Portugal, London (Middx), ?Hull
GILCHRIST - Scotland, Lincs
HINGLEY - Derbys/Yorks
MANN - Sussex, Kent, Herts
MUMBY - Lincolnshire and Hull
PEMBERTON - Ches, Lancashire
STANTON - Lincs
ROBINSON - Lincs
WHITTAKER/WHITAKER - Ches/Lancs
WRIGHT- Bethnal Green
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