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General => The Common Room => The Lighter Side => Topic started by: brigidmac on Monday 05 February 18 09:19 GMT (UK)
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Its comedy festival month here in leicester and i.m preparing to do some storytelling about my funny finds in familiy research .
I will be recording some for local community radio .
Starting with a "aliens in The family "
Barking up tbe wrong family tree
And "twea bairns"a story of glaswegian twins"
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Please answer ANY OR ALL Of these questions if you know any stories about your grandparents parents
Which of your GREAT GRANDPARENTS
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1 had the funniest name
2. Had the funniest address
3.had an unusual occupation
4.had a funny spouse
5 had a claim to fame
6 wore funny clothes
7 spoke a different language
8 had a reputation
9.had papers documents with mistakes
10 was the best looking or had some interesting physical feature
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I've got a relative - male - whose first name was Aeneas. Apparently, Greek origins.
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My first answers are
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these Great Grandparents
1 had the funniest name Nimrod GARDNER.
2. Had the funniest address ..northern same person Duncan MACDERMID
Burns Butt Cambuslang l
Lanarkshi re
3.had an unusual occupation George Jacob FELLMAN
false teeth salesman and draper
4.had a funny spouse or girlfriend Lottie ROBERTS
5 + change question to ...
6 wore funny clothes
7 spoke a different language
8 had a reputation
9.had papers documents with mistakes
10 was the best looking or had some interesting physical feature
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One day .was it a great grandfather ?mi want to limit subject to greats cos it fits in
But my number Tiime travel detective is intrigued and I want to ask lots of questions
Did the family have any connections to Greece ? What year we're they born ? ...
Could they have been influenced by a film or book ??
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It would be equivalent of either my parents or grand parents. Unfortunately he is a cousin. I definitely cannot see any Greek influence. It may have come from the Latin they would have studied in their schooling in those times.
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My apologies for this, BUT
"Which of your great grandparents had the funniest name?"
By today's standards, almost all of our great grandparents did NOT have funny names!! :-X :-* I think it might be termed "perception".
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I've got a relative - male - whose first name was Aeneas. Apparently, Greek origins.
Aeneas, mythical hero of Troy and Rome, son of the goddess Aphrodite and Anchises. Related to Trojan royalty, after fall of Troy went to Italy and was revered by Romans as ancestor of Romulus and Remus, mythical founders of Rome.
Henry Purcell composed a popular opera 'Dido and Aeneas' in the late 17th C. and during 18th C there were many depictions of him as a heroic figure in paintings.
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Yes i want to see what peoples definition of funny is ...i could have said unusual .interesting ....or rare but it could be funny cos they are duncan father of duncan fafther of duncad for 6 generations then a random other name
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I thought I had a funny (or unusual) name in a Canadian census record with the christian name Banfree! It wasn't until I checked and found the original entry, that it became obvious that the name was Winifred!! I don't know where the person who transcribed the census had dreamed up Banfree - it was perfectly clearly written as Winifred! Well to my eyes anyway! Many others on Ancestry have her as Banfree as well, so obviously they didn't check the original either!
Probably took it as gospel from a little green leaf! Shoddy research! ;D
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Oh yes jay that is funny and there must be more like that .
5.is g gfather Abiah jones must have spoken welsh
6 his formidable 2nd wife margaret smith (first marriage Lea) had a reputation for being indestructible .
Was she really in the house in
Birkenhead when it was bombed ? Survived beinng shrapnal
Unlikely but she must have been stoic and had stength when her husbamd waljked out leaving her vin charge of 9 children .5 of her sons joined up in ww1 ..i underage mmy grandfather lied about his age
. ..she survived the stress & they all returned safely .
7 ..
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Oops am.mixing my numbers up
Missed out funny clothes
Has to be the freemasons outfit ..i grew up believing it was some kind of secret sect
Physical distinction
There was a bearded great grandma ..
Who didnt shave it off before her granddaughters wedding. !
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Nearly finished my own list ..will have to put in order
I think great grandmother lottie may have caused mistakes on her documents she gave herself a middle name and then used it as 1st name to.marry legitimately. No wnder she was so hard to.trace .
Have been colecting others facts and will run a storytelling " funny families great grandparents " event in my local.libary this Sat .
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Not blood-related but same generation of the family...Agustus (not Augustus) with a son called Agathos. Everyone else had 'normal' Victorian names.
And a great-uncle was rumoured to be spy during WWI in Hungary, was probably interned for the duration, ended up being murdered in the USA (his obit in the paper terms it a 'tragic accident' but it couldn't have been...shotgun ended up over a hedge and 20 feet away from the body) in 1929.
Makes my life quite dull really... ???
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Ydia its good to have 1 exciti g 1 do you know his name and alias
The lady who. We think wasnt my gmother i. 1905 had a boyfriend or partner in crime had a stave name of Leo selwyn (escapologist) but registered his daughters birth under name of SMITH
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brigidmac: Yes, I know about him and his life while he was living here (and in the USA a lot). It's his WWI experiences that we are having a problem with. He married a Hungarian girl and had 3 children, all born in Hungary; I believe that she took them back to Hungary with her when James died. Then, of course, 10 years later it was WWII so who knows what happened then? By that time, the children would have been adults and thoroughly back into Hungarian culture...I can find no surname so far to say that the son had married and produced children. Research is still ongoing though and I am ever hopeful :) :)
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Good luck.with tat lydia ..keepus posted
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Both workshops were successful. ..children and their parents enjoying lookinvg at old photos and guessing who.s who ....it would be good to get them.to bring pictures of their own grandparents as. C
Children or young adulkts
My song for this week is ""where did you get that hat" ?