Four Trees - Our Great Grandfathers

[angelfish58]

Mine are:

Walter Liddell Watson b1878 Bear Park Co.Durham, a fitter/fitters labourer date of death unknown.

Samuel Charles Anstey Brown b 1863 Wells, Somerset a steel smelter, d1954 may or may not be a g grandfather, it's a bit complicated.

James Challoner b1867 Ketley, Shropshire d1952 a steelworker

Benjamin Stockton Watson b1864 Croft on Tees d1940 gardener/policeman/storekeeper at steelworks.

[tinav40]

I love looking at these threads.
So here's mine
Moses Westmacott 1856 - 1943
Joseph Gubbins 1859 - 1939
Joseph Abrahams 1863??
William Henry Norbury 1868 -1936.
I've never seen anyone on RC tracing my names though.

[toni*]

i have only got three
my grandfather was born in Kyiv and i do not have any records for him before his birth marriage and he didn't include his fathers details on the marriage cert. for one reason or another- long story)

Edwin Holman 1850-1905
James Bentley 1869 - ?
Frederick George Taylor 1902 - 1950's

[alftabor]

My great grandfathers#
Hector Oxlade born 1821,Bucks,Waterside worker
William Bassett born 1813,Wiltshire,Tanner
Charles Herbert Tabor born Wiltshire 1837,Labourer,Mounted Policeman,School Master,Clerk of Court
Jubal George Wilkins born 1843,Labourer,Sire of 19 children
Alfred George Millman born Middlesex 1841,Cooper Letter Carrier
All of the above were dead a long time before my birth but they were a varied and interesting lot
Alf

[Eyesee]

My great grandfathers

Walter Clapham 1862-1934 born Wellington, NZ, farmer, married Theresa Nolan
Alfred Clarke 1864-1941 born in Essex, married Miriam Mannington Faulconer in Canada, came to NZ in 1894, farmer, coach proprietor - son of BSC
Arthur Abraham Harris 1872-1942 born Upper Hutt, NZ, farmer, hotelier, married Sophia Emily Remington
Ernest Otto Leppien 1873-1964 born Wellington, NZ, not sure what he did, met him a couple of times, married Emily Olive Udy

Ian C

[Kazzaqld]

My four great-grandfather's are

Isaac MOORHOUSE b. 1883 in Pudsey, Yorkshire d. 1959 Yorkshire
Bernard Pearson HUSBANDS b. 1885 in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire d. 1969 in Yorkshire. (I was alive when he died but he lived in England and we were in Australia, so sadly I never met him. )
George Frederick HADLEY b. 1874 in West Ham, Essex d. 1942 Sydney, New South Wales
Christopher ION b. 1862 in Launceston, Tasmania d. 1938 also in Launceston.

I have a full set of great-greats also

Henry MOORHOUSE b. 1860 in Pudsey - don't know when he died but he was still alive in 1901!
Alfred WRIGHT b. 1857 in Leeds, d. 1895 in Idle
William Henry HUSBANDS b. 1853 Gainsborough, d. 1902 in Sheffield
Edward John WAGNER, b. 1863 in London, d. 1940 Sault Sainte Marie, Canada
Isaac HADLEY b. 1830 in West Bromwich, Staffordshire d. 1898 West Ham, Essex
Josephus Franciscus Hubertus SPECKEN b. 1841 in Helden, Netherlands d. 1904 in Roermond, Netherlands
Christopher ION b. 1800 in Over Kellet in Lancashire, given one-way trip to Australia by the law, d. 1863 Launceston, Tasmania
Robert SIZER b. 1835 Soham, Cambridgeshire, d. 1908 Bishopsbourne, Tasmania

[gazania]

Here are my great grandfathers and I have photos of all four:

James LANE b 1832 Cork Ireland d 1908 Yeppoon Qld OZ, nurseryman, evangelist, liked several drinks.
Hardy CUNDITH b 1837 Thorne YKS d 1910 Brisbane Qld OZ, saddler, lay preacher, teetotal.
Edward Alport WAREHAM b 1838 Hamptonwick SRY d 1927 Edinburgh, missionary with London Missionary Society in India, very strict & teetotal.
Edmond Jabez ALDERMAN b 1853 Swanbourne BKM d 1907 Boonoo Boonoo NSW OZ, carpenter, well liked & liked a drink.

Gazania

[airdlass]

Here are mine
Hugh Mackay born 1845 Skerray Sutherland died 1909 Skerray -Mason/Fisherman
James Mackay b1867 Scourie Sutherland died 1962 Scourie
James Henderson born 1864 Halkirk died 1930 Wick - Shipping Agent
William Bain born 1870 Wick died 1927 Wick - Fisherman

[Deb D]

Ooooh!  Gotta join in on this one!

My great grandads were: -

*  Christopher Robert Tatham, b. Poplar, London, 7/12/1859 (son of Dr Robert Gordon Tatham and Emma Louisa nee Dixon; -later divorced - one of the family skeletons  )

*  Ambrose Llewellyn Powell, b. Newtown, Sydney, Aust on 5/11/1882 (son of Charles Glendower Powell the mystery man, & second wife Catherine Joyner)

*  Alexander Kinnear, b. Innerleven, Fife, Scotland 1872 (son of Alexander Kinnear and his wife Isabella Rodger) - died 1908, having come off second-best in an argument with a train 

*  and Archibald Mitchell, b. Scotland, 1874 (son of James Mitchell and wife Helen Henderson)

However, ... I also had a step-gt grandfather, since my gt-grandma Kinnear (nee "Lizzie" Lumsden Baird) had scarpered to Australia in 1908 (perhaps the reason for gt-grandad's argy with the train?) ... and subsequently married John Benjamin Haerse!  He's the gt-grandad I remember, obviously.