Four Trees - Our Great Grandfathers

[7igerby7he7ail]

Mine are

William Gaunt b 1857 Burslem Staffordshire
Thomas Guy b 1864 Madeley Shropshire
Alexander Bartley b 1859 Salford Lancashire
Frederick Neville b 1867 Plumpton Essex

my wife's

Thomas Andrew Cossar b 1858 Glasgow
Peter Higgins b 1865 Glasgow
Joseph Gallagher b 1867 Glasgow
Archibald Macfarlane b 1865 Cumlodden Argyll

So you can see mine came from far and wide, whilst my wife's mostly  within spitting distance of each other.

[mrspeel]

I just found this thread and I've been reading it instead of working for ages now

My great grandfathers are:

Alfred Oates b. Hooten Pagnell Yorkshire 1873
Edward Buttrick b. Spofforth, Yorkshire or Amcotts, Lincolnshire (depending on source) 1875
Ernest George Price b. Harborne Staffordshire 1869
and the ever elusive Herbert William Chant b. Hull Yorkshire 1876

Great grandmothers are:

Mary Catherine Ford b. Ashover Derbyshire 1867
Annie Gelder b. Amcotts, Lincolnshire 1874
Annie Wylie b. as Blanch Lilian Smith London 1869
and Ellen Wetherall b. Long Marston Yorkshire

I'm still working on finding out more about all of them.

[Mark1973]

Mine are,

John Donohoe, Carlow Ireland
Thomas Roche, Tralee Ireland
William Charles Adaway, Mitcham Surrey, 1911 - 1985
William Lindsell, Durham Northumberland, 1904 - 1971

only know 3 of my great grandmothers

Agnes Kelly, Carlow Ireland
Violet Nellie Lavender, Mitcham Surrey, 1910 - 2001
Margaret Anne Wilson Thompson, Durham, Northumberland, 1909 - ? (apparently a prostitute!)

Will be interesting to see if anyones great grandparents matches up on this thread

[terry h]

Mine are

Robert Hastie b Coldstream Berwickshire
Thomas Borthwick b Traquair Peebleshire
William Young b Hawick Roxburghshire
Walter Lyon Combe b Hawick Roxburghshire

g grandmothers

Isabella Chisholm b Yetholm Roxburghshire
Frances Hall Roxburgh b Peebles Peeblesshire
Janet (Jessie) Glenney b Hawick Roxburghshire
Margaret Willison Lamb b Selkirk Selkirkshire

[James R. Yeowell]

I can only locate three because my grandfather didn't exist until his marriage in 1907 therefore no gt.grandad!

Thomas Dinmore from Camberwell a rope maker
George James Tylor from Camberwell a gen. labourer
Henry Collyer from Surrey a bricklayers labourer

Sandie

Henry Collyer maybe related to me... is he from Chobham?

[James R. Yeowell]

My Great Grandfathers are:

Charles Frederick Yeowell, of Newington, Surrey, a Mechanic and a Packer of Linen Goods, died of Chronic Bronchitis and Valvular Disease of the Heart.  He married a 19 year old when he was 38 (as his only wife) and had 9 children.
Frank Stevens, of Paddington (born in Oxford), a General Labourer, seems to have been a bit of a character.  He kept chickens and I have a photo of him wearing 3 cardigans a tie and a hat whilst stood in his garden
Charles Ward, of Lambeth and Islington, a Leather Worker and Painter
Arthur Ernest Hold, of Camberwell, a Builder, a Trade Relief Stamper for Intaglio Patents Company Limited and later a Rifleman in the 6th Battalion, City of London Rifles; then after The Great War, he was a Mechanical Engineer.  He died of T.B. aged 50 and was gassed during the war.

[Bodham]

My great grandfathers

 Robert William West Emery 1865-1941 of Sheringham boat builder
 William James Farrer Spurgeon 1868-?  of Lowestoft shipwright
 Thomas William Hollett  1865-?  of Liverpool
 Thomas Horrocks                       
 

[toni*]

thaks to ITS i now know both my missing  great grandmother and great grandfathers names
 

[LizzieW]

My four great grandfathers were:

Seth Hobson -  Born 1847 in Ingbirchworth, Yorkshire.  He was a Butcher and moved with his family to Manchester, where he died in 1892 aged 45 of pneumonia after having falling off his horse and cart whilst drunk!
John Isaac Cockett - Born 1843 in Holbeach, Lincolnshire.  He was a Master Baker and moved with his family to Manchester, where he died in 1910 aged 67 from Bronchities and Heart Failure.
Thomas Boulton Benson - Born in Ulverston, Lancashire in 1857.  His occupations varied between labourer, merchant seaman and marine engineer.  He moved with his family to Hull where he died in 1893 aged 36 from Heart Disease.
George William Wright - Born about 1856/1858 in Bethnal Green.  He was a fisherman and by 1884 he was living in Hull.  By 1901 he owned a Tobacconist and Confectionery shop.  He died in 1935 apparently aged 77 from Heart Disease and Coronary Thrombosis.

George William Wright is the g.grandfather that I have no further information about (and the one on my avatar - at least today).  It is only due to the 1911 census that I found out he was born in Bethnal Green.  Prior to that the only information I had was that he was born in Middlesex.  As I cannot find a marriage for him and g.gran (although the 1911 census states they had been married 28 years by then!) I cannot find out the name of his father to help identify him from all the other George Wrights born in Middlesex around 1856/8.

Lizzie