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The Lighter Side / Re: What is the biggest mystery in your tree?
« on: Saturday 05 August 17 20:39 BST (UK) »
Everyone has a Black Sheep/Skeleton in the Cupboard, and this one is mine:- my great Grandfather Walter SCOTT, born on 6 October 1867, in Christchurch, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England; son of John Scott & Hannah Doncaster of Euximoor Grange Farm, Christchurch.
He has no middle name and looking at other family names, Walter is a very unusual name to have been used. I can only assume that my Gt Gt Grandmother must've enjoyed reading Sir Walter Scott's novels!
Walter married Annie Maria LAVENDER, daughter of William & Mary LAVENDER, Herbalists,of Chatteris on 27 October 1890 in the Wesleyan Chapel, Chatteris, Cambs. They had 3 children, the eldest, Grace, being my grandmother.
As far as my Dad knows from family talk, on the day that Walter disappeared, he had taken some of his father's bullocks to market in King's Lynn, Norfolk, sold them, banked the money for his father and was never seen again! This was probably about 1903. Family folklore has Walter, and possibly a lady friend, running away to Canada, but nobody knows. But I would love to find out.
He has no middle name and looking at other family names, Walter is a very unusual name to have been used. I can only assume that my Gt Gt Grandmother must've enjoyed reading Sir Walter Scott's novels!
Walter married Annie Maria LAVENDER, daughter of William & Mary LAVENDER, Herbalists,of Chatteris on 27 October 1890 in the Wesleyan Chapel, Chatteris, Cambs. They had 3 children, the eldest, Grace, being my grandmother.
As far as my Dad knows from family talk, on the day that Walter disappeared, he had taken some of his father's bullocks to market in King's Lynn, Norfolk, sold them, banked the money for his father and was never seen again! This was probably about 1903. Family folklore has Walter, and possibly a lady friend, running away to Canada, but nobody knows. But I would love to find out.