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General => The Common Room => The Lighter Side => Topic started by: BattyB on Sunday 15 October 17 14:47 BST (UK)
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I heard yesterday that my only surviving uncle had died aged 90. He was my dad's brother and the last of his generation in my family trees. A lovely man and will be greatly missed by his surviving son and his grandchildren. RIP uncle.
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End of an era ....... bless him.
RIP
My Mum was the last of her generation.
WhiskyMac
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Sad when you realise that has happened isn't it, my mother died 9 years ago and she was the last of her generation on my maternal side and then 2 days later my uncle died, the last on my paternal side.
Even worse when you then realise that you are part of the oldest generation in the family!
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Sad when you realise that has happened isn't it, my mother died 9 years ago and she was the last of her generation on my maternal side and then 2 days later my uncle died, the last on my paternal side.
Even worse when you then realise that you are part of the oldest generation in the family!
Not only part of the oldest generation in the family but also the eldest !!
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My mother was the youngest of 7 children and my father was also the youngest of 7 children and both were the last of their generation.
I am the youngest of four children and I am the only surviving member of my generation.
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It's worse when you realise that after 500+ traceable years of your original surname, there's no-one left of your line that bears it, and that you're the last that did .... so it's gone, as far as your line existed. and there isn't anyone in the next generation at all. Extinction.
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That will happen in my family once my brother and my cousin go! My grandfather was the only boy out of 5 children, so the only one to carry on the name. He had 4 boys and a girls. However of those 4 boys, one didn't marry, one had a son who then had two daughters ( name died out there) the other two had a son and two daughters, but in both cases the son didn't marry so the name will die out there.
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I'm technically speaking the last of my line of the family - my brother was adopted and in any case died a few years ago. Both my children are adopted, so although legally the name goes on with my son (currently childless), the bloodline will die out with me. Sad thought for one interested in genealogy! It will, however, continue with my cousins' children, I'm glad to say.
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Our bloodline does seem to die out with the few left of my generation, no-one in the next, of the direct line.
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My mum was the last of her line, she died in 2007, my dad's youngest sister was the last of that line she died in 2011. I'm now the oldest of the cousins on my dad's line ::)
However, as my mum was next to youngest of her siblings, there are many cousins older than me on my mum's line. The eldest is 90 and I have another 4 cousins who are older than me. Three other older ones (they would be younger than 90) have died though.
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It's worse when you realise that after 500+ traceable years of your original surname, there's no-one left of your line that bears it, and that you're the last that did .... so it's gone, as far as your line existed. and there isn't anyone in the next generation at all. Extinction.
I am an only child (as was my mother) and have only two daughters, so my name-line has also ended, though the genes live on .... I have two first cousins on Christmas-card terms only, and two second cousins, now long dead (there will be a few others who lost touch ages ago). Not much to go on.
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I was surprised to discover when I first asked my grandmother about her family history in 2012 that she still had an uncle and two aunts that were still alive. The uncle has since died but the aunts are alive and well. Unfortunately, my grandmother herself died in 2013.