The Argus- George Stockdale

[jaybelnz]

Not at all Noy!  You clearly said WW2 in your post!  My bad!   

Jeanne

[Noy1818]

 

[Noy1818]

Jeanne, I was just doing some research on my family from WW1 and found the George Stockdale you were looking at! What a coincidence! Now I have information on him 

[jaybelnz]

Not very nice though was it!  So many people in that list too - very sad!

The search using just the name seemed to throw up quite a lot of Stockdales from that era too, so pleased that's helpful for you further back!

Jeanne

[Noy1818]

Indeed that was a horrid battle. Thank you for giving me the link, It's given me a real insight about what he was going through at the time.

[jaybelnz]

I love those sorts of thing too, they really bring more reality to the lives and times of our ancestors and their families - the ups and downs, the difficulties they had to face in hard times and good!  What fortitude they must have had!

I often wonder what our descendents in the far distant future are going to think of our generation when I think of all the changes I've seen in my own lifetime  in lifestyle, technology, travel, etc! 

A funny for instance, my grandmother at 96, in the 197O's, who always insisted on doing the dishes, could not understand how I could put my dirty dishes into a drawer, and it would make a terrible noise, then the dishes would come out sparkling clean and dry!

She had a unique way of expressing it to my Mum - "Jeanne wouldn't let me do the dishes after lunch, she has a magic cupboard"!  "It's very noisy, but the dishes are really clean".

Jeanne

[Noy1818]

What a funny story! I do love all those things. I am thinking of taking a range of photos of things and objects that the next generation might never see or use. For example- Phones on cords, telephone boxes, letters and other stuff like that. It's funny how things change so much just over a couple of decades. How peoples experiences change and how each one shapes their families future. It is really quite interesting.

[jaybelnz]

What a super idea!  Makes me think too of things in my China Cabinet that I know my kids aren't going to want, today's youngsters just don't seem to DO China cabinets etc! I have some lovely old stuff from both of my grandmothers and my Mum.  I must just set myself up one day to take photos of them all.  Mmmm food for thought!  I think I may already have a few with furniture, telephones, our houses, huge hunky TV sets and radios, grams etc

Good job for a cold winter I think!  Great idea you've given me -thank you!

Jeanne

[Noy1818]

I would love to do a collage with them in a album and have all the old family photos and stories with it. Then everything shall be neat and tidy (knowing me it will end up a mess!). At least then it would be easier to add to, and when I find a new family item to add I can just slip it in! Better make sure I label who is in every photo. I found some lovely old photos in the family archive today, dated maybe about 1890, but unfortunately they have no names on it so I have no idea who they are.