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Quote from: MadaboutRoses1883 on Friday 25 September 15 23:08 BST (UK)

Does it have to be a gr grandmother?

Then she took a de tour and threw herself into the river and 3 days later was found drowned.
That was days before Christmas.
My gift to her would be a hug and a chance for her to talk it all out.
Poor love, she needed help.

Doesn't have to be aG-grandma, I needed something for a focus and G-grandmas are quite compelling

Awww.  That is a sad story, you must've cried for weeks once you found out.

Yes, it honestly did make me weep. I found her story by co-incidence, which made me feel she wanted her story told. My mother was to be called after her (as family tradition was then) but on the way to the church her aunt (maybe the one who met my gr gr grandmother on the way home?) changed my mother's intended name to something different.
(Funny thing was, we kids never believed my mother when she used to tell us what her name should have been, and that her aunt changed it to what it is, but that inquest report I found bears it out).

Had to laugh the other day at a joke which said, change your password to "notrecognised",so when your computer tells you your password is not recognised,you'll know what it is!

 

Wonderful! I may just do a variation along that theme.

How wonderful.
I can imagine just how thrilled you and your sister feel.
It must have been time for it to be found!

I'll be honest, this thread worries me.
I am a relatively new poster here, I used to be on another site.
I have asked for help with a look up for Westmorland and in Lancashire, my particular family moved from one to the other. And I have been immensly grateful to the contributors in helping me finally break down a brick wall that I had wrestled with for over 1 year now. The simple fact that a member suggested that the transcript was wrong, which had resulted in me previously trying to find a gr gr grandfather who had been mis-transcribed, gave me the breakthrough I needed. I didn't have enough experience to realise that transcripts could and very often are wrongly transcribed.
But anyway back to the thread, it worries me greatly that I may have been thought of as one of those hobbyist posters.
I thought long and hard before I posted for help, I had tried and tried to search for my gr gr grandfather, on free sites as well as FindMyPast pay as you go without any luck. It was not until I asked here that I got that breakthrough, for which I really appreciate the time and effort that members put in.
Thankyou again for those members who helped me.


 

Thankyou for that Barbara, I do appreciate it.
Oooooo, she lived not to far from where I live now! I don't suppose those cottages are still there? Must have a look.