Eight Trees Gt Gt Grandparents

[Necromancer]

I wasnt confused thanks Gordon - can count in binary too  - I guess I didnt use the word SETS or COUPLES in my short note.

I also thought that Sandy meant to add the G*2's to the G*3s - 8+16 SETS = 24 !

40-30 I feel 

Going for Deuce ?


PS. I've only been here 2 months, so wasnt aware of previous thread 

[stockman fred]

We've been discussing the generation thing over tea and we were wondering when family trees become superfluous  (Is that the right word?)
If your ancestors double every 30 years, in effect, you soon clock up some huge numbers of people- 210 years ago, you had 128 ancestors in that "breeding generation "300 years ago it was 1024. If you carried on you would reach a point about 700 years ago when you would have more ancestors than the population of the country (if it weren't for inbreeding).
So are we all related to Chaucer, or is there a big flaw in this line of thinking?
Fred

[Necromancer]

'tis fascinating - and shows how big the population was then !   

[GordonD]

Scroppers your counting makes perfect sense now that know it was sets not individuals!!

Anyway not got all 16 sets (got 15)  from the 3*g generation due to illegitimacy. Also in one of the sets in this generation the husband may not be the father of my gg grandfather

Paternal side:

Robert Douglas and Jane Telford (m Carlisle 1824)
William Donaldson and Rebecca Jardine (m 1845 St Mungo Dumfriesshire )
William Black and Isabella Wright (m 1847 Dalziel, Lanarkshire)
John Faulds and Isabella Lindsay (m 1847 Dalziel, Lanarkshire)
Andrew Townsley and Mary Docherty (m 1856 Antrim)
Terrence Cunningham and Mary Campbell (m 1854 Glasgow)
Thomas Davidson and Ann Killalely/Killala/Killale (m 1863 Auchlenck Ayrshire)
John Campbell and Susan McLuskie (not got marriage date before 1855 and RC so not in OPRs)

Maternal side:

James Gray and Catherine Pettigrew (married 1845 Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire)
Archibald Richardson and Elizabeth Pitcairn (married 1841 Old Monkland, Lanarkshire)
John Craig and Jean Campbell (married 1866 Glasgow)
John Campbell and Agnes Cowan (married 1883 New Monkland, Lanarkshire)
John Tripney and Georgina Corbett (married 1873 Falkirk)
James Thomson and Christina Thomson (married 1876 New Monkland) (no obvious family relationship found betwen these Thomsons!)
Margaret Muir and Francis Lauchlan (married 1870 New Monkland but was Francis the father of William?)

Gordon

Update: Got new info thanks to Rootschat!!!! John Campbell who married Susan McLuskie was actually John Campbell McIlhern(or similar sounding spellings). Knew he was from Armagh already but it seems that over the years he dropped the McIlhern surname over his years in Scotland and used his middle name Campbell as a surname. So now know the marriage was in 1854 and now got his daughter Rose(my great great grandmothers) birth entry which I couldn't find before. All thanks to MonicaLesl who discovered the other surname for me

[seahall]

Hi Scoppers

Only joined the other thread myself yesterday started this one to see how many we could note. 

2 months and a over 1,000 posts.  I have been here just over a  year and only
clocked up 2,000 +  but then I mainly stay on a couple of forums that's enough for me. 

Hubby says we ususally count in the power of ten and with our rellies we count in the power of two.

Glad he knows what he is talking about.      (only joking)

Obviously the younger you are means you would be travelling a lot quicker
down them than alot of us. 

Cheers Sandy

[JDGen]

Here are mine:

Paternal:
Thomas DAVENPORT m Mary Ann WILD Manchester Cathedral 1838
Joseph HIGGINBOTTOM m Elizabeth JONES Whitfield 1852
Thomas SUTCLIFFE m Sarah BUCKLEY Stockport 1857
George BROWN m Ellen COTTRILL Ashton under Lyne 1859

Maternal:
Thomas BECKETT m Elizabeth YOUD Frodsham 1830
Samuel PENNELL m Ann SPRAGG Astbury 1832!! Found them!
Joseph Yearsley MOORE m Mary Anne OWEN Great Budworth 1848
John BLACKSHAW m Mary Esther BARBER Everton 1859

Any takers?  I'm happy to share them!    (especially some of them!)

Need a new post for 16 Trees.....
Just over 50% there for 32 Trees!

Jean

[MarieC]

Here are mine (and they are spread around the world!!  )

PATERNAL:
Allan John Russell Bedford CAMERON m. Helen Anna COX 1839 Ireland.
Donald Charles CAMERON m. Margaret Anne MOORE 1844 British Guiana.
Joseph HUBAND SMITH M. Catherine Cecilia JEPHSON 1835 Dublin
Edward MARTIN m. Mary LOCKWOOD 1838 London

MATERNAL:
George William BENTLEY m. Eleanor COOK 1835 London
William DENHAM m. Edna Grace COOKE 1840 Langport, Somerset
Thomas HALL m. Janet HARVIE 1854 Sydney ? NSW
Edward Sydney Woods HULLE m. Eliza JOHNSON 1858 Sydney NSW

MarieC

[Burrow Digger]

I have 6 out of 8 couples since one grandfather is unknown.

PATERNAL

John Thompson & Catherine Wilson - Aberdeen, Scotland
Thomas Fairbairn & Elizabeth Simpson - Edinburgh, Scotland
Isaac Burrow & Jane Sulley - Ottery St Mary, Devon
James Evans & Mary Stone - Budleigh Salterton, Devon

MATERNAL

Thomas Stephens & Ellen Bickham - Plymouth, Devon
Daniel McCallum & Jeanie McDermid - Southend, Argyll, Scotland

[Burrow Digger]

Here are mine:

Paternal Side
John Markham & Annie Laurie Rose - 1876 Stockwell, London
George Reeves & Mary Harriet Haynes - 1878 Walworth, London
John William Stares & Jane Newland - 1880 Droxford, Hants
Ezekiel Eldred & Elizabeth Bacon - 1877 Pebmarsh, Essex

Anna

Hi Anna,

Do you have any Collis's and/or Bentall's from Pebmarsh?? 

BD