Four Trees - Our Great Grandfathers

[pinefamily]

My great-grandfathers are a mixed lot.
Thomas Dowdeswell Pine (b.1843 Dorset, d.1921 South Australia) miller, publican, merchant
Erik Magnus Lindquist/Lundquist (1857 Sweden, 1927 South Australia) seaman, master mariner
Joseph Sando (1858 South Australia, 1928 South Australia) carpenter, builder
My maternal grandmother was born to a single woman, father unknown

Darren

[Rossdal3]

What a nice memorial to a tough generation of kinsfolk!

Here are mine:

Thomas Henry Holdsworth 1875 - 1951  born in Bradford
John Gaunt 1859 - 1906 born in Horton
Harry Hardisty 1875 - 1919 born in Bradford
John Wedgeworth 1876 - 1966 born in Paisley Scotland

Sadly I only knew 1 of them and he was a real gem!

Cheers,
Jill

[Lambendsor (aka IGS)]

Mine are:

Robert ENDSOR (1877-1948), cork maker, greengrocer, machine driller, milkman in Manchester and New York - son of a warehouseman, draper's porter, collier, teaser in glass works, millhand.

Peter Raphael (or Rayfield?) GRAY (c1867-1940), prizefighter, butcher, watchman in New York - son of a labourer, hod carrier.

Nickolaus BRAUN (1860-1941), farmer in Banat (now Romania) - son of a ?.

Carl Heinrich Thomas SCHÖNHERR (1859-1938), ships carpenter in Flensburg (now Germany) - son of a blacksmith, coal trimmer, stoker, saloon keeper.

[Tryykersfield]

Mine are: 

William Philip George TRICKER  born 1877 Essex died 1915 London

Rosina Ellen GEARY born 1882 Middlesex died 1911 London

William James SKINGSLEY born 1882 Essex died 1945 Kent

Annie BRAGG born 1883 Kent died unknown

[forthefamily]

I know very little about my great grandfathers or my great grandmothers either 

Alexander Bonner - born Donegal Ireland - farmer, shoemaker
Edward McGowan - born somewhere in Ireland - seaman
Owen Bradley - born Donegal Ireland - farmer
John McBride - born maybe Ireland, maybe Scotland, maybe USA  - iron moulder

mab 

[mrs_tease]

My gt grandfathers were-

Sidney Ombler Walters-1894 to 1959. He use to maintain the clock towers in Hull
William Benjamin Best- 1850 to 1923
James Ellis Mckay- 1898 to 1966
Arthur Willoughby Simon- 1869 to ? ( he's my main mystery)

Unfortunatly I never met any of them

[lizdb]

Great grandfathers! I never knew any of mine, indeed only one of my grandfathers was still alive when I was born. But have the joy now of seeing my own Dad live long enough to already have seen 3 great grandchildren.

Thomas Henry EDMONDS 1859-1926
William GREEN 1844 - 1920's
Joseph TINKER
George WICKENDEN

I have only researched the EDMONDS line - in a lot of detail (!).We keep saying "when it is finished we will start on the Greens" (that was about 20 years ago)- but you know what Family History is like   - it is NEVER finished!
Enjoyed every minute of it though.

[wood.mjm]

Okay. Great Grandfathers, here we go.

         George Wood b. 1831 Leeds.   Brass founder and finisher. I have a beautiful model of a locomotive steam whistle which he made.
     
         Samuel Sheard b. 1853 Leeds.   Engineer.

         Joseph Cooper b.  1855 Croyden Surrey ( later settled in Hull). Royal Navy Petty Officer who's claim to fame was that he taught King George V and his brother seamanship aboard
HMS Bacchante on its world cruise.

         Henry Blackburn Sanderson b. 1874  Leeds.  Bricklayer.

Woody.

[Windsor87]

Robert John Strachan (1891-1953). b.Fraserburgh,Scotland, d. Rugby, England.
Robert Cassie Connon (1896-1964). b. Turriff, d. Fraserburgh.
Edwin Watt (1899-1975). b. Pennan, d. Fraserburgh.
Alexander Beattie (1915-98). Born and died in Fraserburgh.

I also know all of my great great grandfathers. I will list them as I listed their wives in the grandmother thread some months ago.

Robert Strachan (1868-1917). Killed at sea on war service.
Dougal Noble (1855-1896). One of the Broadsea Nobles.
George Connon (1867-1909). From Turriff.
James Bryson (1863-1923). From Hoddom, Dumfriesshire.
John Watt (1844-1910). Fisherman from Pennan.
George Sinclair (1868-1945). Cooper from Sandhaven, nr Fraserburgh.
Alexander C. Beattie (1889-1967). Born Turriff.
Samuel Garden (1879-1952). Lived in Peterhead.

I am missing one greatx3 grandfather.