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Hi all,

I am hoping someone can offer any advice/knowledge?

I am searching for information on my g-grandfather, George Griffiths (16/08/1895 - 1943) who was born and died in Chester, Cheshire however worked on the docks/ships in Liverpool so used to travel back to Chester at the weekends.

I am following a family story that he survived the Titanic sinking however when checking out names etc I couldn't find a match but found a 'George Griffith', a second class waiter, who survived the Lusitania. My g-grandfather's surname had an 's' however what are the chances this could be him? I am also aware that the name Griffiths is extremely popular.

(His family is also from Mold, Wales)

Thanks

Hi,

I have recently done my DNA ethnicity test via Ancestry.com which came out with 75& Irish/Scottish and 22% English/Wales (which is what I was expecting), however I have 3% Norwegian which covers Norway and Iceland however I have not come across any indication of having Norwegian ancestors?

I know that I have black ancestry (5th ggf) which showed up on my mothers DNA ancestry as ~1%, so I am assuming that Norwegian ancestors would have been fairly recent? Does anyone have any ideas of how far back 3% would represent?

Any answers/help are welcomed, thank you!

Thanks for correcting me , Stan. 
Gosh, I had no idea that it was still there in the 1980s. My mum was there in around 1929 / 1930 when she had Scarlet Fever. Anything that she took into the hospital would have to be left there, so her mum produced a new notebook for drawing and a pack of cards to take with her. She remembered at least one other child died and said one of the nurses got it, so ended up in the same ward. She said sulphur was blown down her throat, as powder collected on a piece of paper, folded so it all collected in the crease. It tickled and made her cough. She was in bed for weeks. There was no visiting because it was infectious, so her mother and aunt came and stood on the pavement outside, as she could see them and wave through the window. (She was in a ward right at the front of the hospital.)In the end, when she was discharged, her mother had to more or less carry her, because she was so weak that she couldn't walk.

Wow, stories and little anecdotes like these make all the research so real and important!

Hi,

My great-grandfather was buried on 17/01/1938 at Ford Cemetery in Liverpool. From the burial information given, I can see that he died at 147A Mill Road, Liverpool. At first I thought this was a road but now I have come to believe that this was a hospital?

After some research I have come to the conclusion that it may have been a maternity hospital? My great-grandfather died at 44 years and was from a working class background.

Could anyone offer any advice as to whether he died in a hospital or possibly a workhouse infirmary as the family were quite poor? Also would there have been any specific illness that he may have died from so young that he would have been sent to the workhouse infirmary for?

Thanks for any help given.