Strange coincidences in you tree?

[wheeldon]

My Grandad was orphaned at the age of 9, so didn't know his family very well.  He met my Grandma whilst on leave from the navy.  I have since found that his Grandad and my Grandma's Grandad lived 5 doors up from one another.  We are not talking about a tiny hamlet but Manchester.  Neither of my Grandparents ever knew their own Grandparents but isn't it strange their ancestors probably knew each other.

It's a funny old world, isn't it?

Do you have any strange but true coincidences?

[Little Nell]

About 1840, my father's gt gt grandfather and his family moved to London area from Portsea.  I have found them in Henry Street in Woolwich.

In 1877, my mother's grandfather was born in Henry Street in Woolwich.

The two branches of the family came together in Twickenham in the 1950s when my parents married.

A few years may separate them but I still found it a bit of a coincidence.

Nell

[MarieC]

In the 1850s, one of my maternal great-grandfathers was apprenticed as a mast, oar and block maker in the East End of London.

It appears that his master was a distant cousin of my paternal grandmother's mother.  The families did not come together till my parents married in the 1940s.

Gave me a strange, spooky feeling!

MarieC

[wotty]

My husband's great great grandfather moved from Devon to Yorkshire where in the late 1870s he was an attendant at an asylum. Also an attendant at the same asylum at the same time was my great great great grandfather!

I like to think that they would have known each other.

Wotty.

[wheeldon]

Very strange coincidences.  I wonder if I know now someone who isn't related that will appear in my ggg granchilds family tree.

I probably do, someone from my own tree that I've made a terrible mistake on