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Re: Strange coincidences in family history
« Reply #18 on: Thursday 24 May 18 08:00 BST (UK) »
My family history coincidence is going to cause problems for future researchers - two brothers married women of the same name - my sister-in-law and me - but we're completely unrelated. We have the same first name and surname but our middle names are different. I wonder how many of them will assume it's a case of two brothers marrying the same person?  :)
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Durham: COULSON, FENWICK, HUNTER, LOWES, NAYLOR, ROBSON
Norfolk: DEWING, OUGHTON, TAYLOR,
Lancashire: TWEDDLE
Ireland: KEATING, KIRBY, Limerick; NELSON, Donegal
Scotland: BENNIE, Glasgow; COOK, Renfrewshire; HENDERSON, Alloa/Dundee; HUNTER, Glasgow; KIRKWOOD, Alloa; LAMONT, Dalkeith; YOUNG, Glasgow
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Re: Strange coincidences in family history
« Reply #19 on: Thursday 24 May 18 08:31 BST (UK) »
My family history coincidence is going to cause problems for future researchers - two brothers married women of the same name - my sister-in-law and me - but we're completely unrelated. We have the same first name and surname but our middle names are different. I wonder how many of them will assume it's a case of two brothers marrying the same person?  :)

 ;D You are going to be labelled as a bigamist in a lot of trees.
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Re: Strange coincidences in family history
« Reply #20 on: Thursday 24 May 18 08:32 BST (UK) »
My family history coincidence is going to cause problems for future researchers - two brothers married women of the same name - my sister-in-law and me - but we're completely unrelated. We have the same first name and surname but our middle names are different. I wonder how many of them will assume it's a case of two brothers marrying the same person?  :)

My husband has that in his tree, and one of the sisters died fairly young.... it DID take me years to unravel, though much easier now that so much is on-line.
BORCHARDT in Poland/Germany, BOSKOWITZ in Czechoslovakia, Hungary + Austria, BUSS in Baden, Germany + Switzerland, FEKETE in Hungary + Austria, GOTTHILF in Hammerstein + Berlin, GUBLER, GYSI, LABHARDT & RYCHNER in Switzerland, KONIG & KRONER in Germany, PLACZEK, WUNSCH & SILBERBERG in Poland.

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Re: Strange coincidences in family history
« Reply #21 on: Thursday 24 May 18 08:51 BST (UK) »
;D You are going to be labelled as a bigamist in a lot of trees.

So true  ;D
England:
Durham: COULSON, FENWICK, HUNTER, LOWES, NAYLOR, ROBSON
Norfolk: DEWING, OUGHTON, TAYLOR,
Lancashire: TWEDDLE
Ireland: KEATING, KIRBY, Limerick; NELSON, Donegal
Scotland: BENNIE, Glasgow; COOK, Renfrewshire; HENDERSON, Alloa/Dundee; HUNTER, Glasgow; KIRKWOOD, Alloa; LAMONT, Dalkeith; YOUNG, Glasgow
Switzerland: VOSTI, DELUBINI
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Re: Strange coincidences in family history
« Reply #22 on: Thursday 24 May 18 10:10 BST (UK) »
Is there NO WAY - you can get this documented in LARGE PRINT --- so they find the truth, or are you just going to let them find out the hard way --- ha ha ha.. the struggles we have with this game..

sometimes I could pull my hair out, with the co-incidences

Everyday there is either a mix up or an untruth ...

Yesterday - (still working on the benefactors of the Will I discovered)

The grandaughter - that was bequeathed some cash was interesting :_

quick run down.

'to my 3 grandchildren etc'.....  one being Elizabeth.  These are the children of his son from his first marriage.

However previously in the will he gave money to the Grandchildren of his late wife..

At the moment!!!
I am of the conclusion that Elizabeth his grandaughter ! had married twice, and one of her husbands was one of the grandchildren of Robert's  first wife.   (this as yet is NOT verified)

So this Elizabeth, is my line ?  or is she Roberts line, that joins my line and then leaves to marry 2nd husband. but is really my line all along..

Now I wonder why my head is off all the time.. sorting this kind of problem.. is crazy.


What I did realise ------ (s / NOT z in realise thank you)[/glow] 

its no wonder there are so many crazy mixed up trees on Ancestry.. Cos I really need to go so slowly through this will - over and over to ensure, I have the correct Grandchildren of his wife.. Who he didnt have any children with..

screaming abdabs....

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Re: Strange coincidences in family history
« Reply #23 on: Tuesday 05 June 18 07:34 BST (UK) »
Hi

Like everyone I have a few coincidences.
I have 5 generations working for the Huddersfield Council.
My grandmother and grandfathers lived at opposite ends of the town but their grandparents live round the corner from each other.
As a lad I had a Saturday job and then I became an apprentice and I have found that I am related to the owners of both company's I worked for.

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Ellam, Mills, Ellins
Firth, Wood, Muffitt
Hill, Mattinson, Nicholson
Morrey, Hudson, Limb

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Re: Strange coincidences in family history
« Reply #24 on: Tuesday 05 June 18 08:43 BST (UK) »
A few years ago I moved to a village on the outskirts of the city I grew up in, and started looking into my family history shortly after. I quickly discovered that my new home was precisely where my ancestors came from.

Looking further into it, I realised that my 5x great grandfather was the parish clerk (of the church at the end of my street) and it was his records that I was looking at all this time.
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Re: Strange coincidences in family history
« Reply #25 on: Wednesday 06 June 18 15:04 BST (UK) »
I have found coincidences in my families, so much so that I'm convinced the ancestors are  pointing us in their directions.
Now will all the others step forward please  ;D

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Re: Strange coincidences in family history
« Reply #26 on: Sunday 10 June 18 16:49 BST (UK) »
However, he was adamant and would ask me most of the days I was in his class. Fast forward to the last few days I was in his class he decided to tell me more about his family - including a name I vaguely recognised (albeit a fairly common one).

It turns out he was my third cousin and seemed to have some kind of sixth sense!  :o

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I think he was one of your 'dead rellies'  re visiting in his new life and recognised you.

or something
 ??? ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

xin

Probably, even from the first day!  ;D
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