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Offline SCH2

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A bit of light relief!-solve this one....
« on: Sunday 13 February 05 22:33 GMT (UK) »
Found this on another site and just thought it might make some of our 'problems' seem a little less daunting!no wonder we get confused, just for fun.

I am my own Grandpa [MAIL THIS TO A FRIEND]
Many many years ago when I was twenty three,
I got married to a widow who was pretty as could be.
This widow had a grown-up daughter
Who had hair of red.
My father fell in love with her,
And soon the two were wed.
This made my dad my son-in-law
And changed my very life.
My daughter was my mother,
For she was my father's wife.
To complicate the matters worse,
Although it brought me joy,
I soon became the father
Of a bouncing baby boy.
My little baby then became
A brother-in-law to dad.
And so became my uncle,
Though it made me very sad.
For if he was my uncle,
Then that also made him brother
To the widow's grown-up daughter
Who, of course, was my step-mother.
Father's wife then had a son,
Who kept them on the run.
And he became my grandson,
For he was my daughter's son.
My wife is now my mother's mother
And it makes me blue.
Because, although she is my wife,
She's my grandmother too.
If my wife is my grandmother,
Then I am her grandchild.
And every time I think of it,
It simply drives me wild.
For now I have become
The strangest case you ever saw.
As the husband of my grandmother,
I am my own grandpa!

Have fun plotting that tree! LOL ;D
Sue
Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Phillimore-Wiltshire/Hants/London
Bendall (Bendle)-Hants/London
Bunnett-Norfolk, Devon
Drewry/Drury-Kent, London
Haines-London
Ivers-Devon, Kent
Jater-Kent, London
Sellers-Devon, Kent
Salathiel/Snell-Glamorgan/Sussex/Surrey
Whitehair-London
also Annis/Tremeer/Martin/Clarke

Offline janan

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Re: A bit of light relief!-solve this one....
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 03 March 05 11:46 GMT (UK) »
 ;D ;D ;D Thanks for that Sue.  ;)Jan. PS you'd probably get more response posting it in the lighter side
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bedfordshire - farr, carver,handley, godfrey, newell, bird, emmerton, underwood,ancell
buckinghamshire- pain
cambridgeshire- bird, carver
hertfordshire- conisbee, bean, saunders, quick,godfrey
derbyshire- allsop, noon
devon - griffin, love, rapsey
dorset- rendall, gale
somerset- rendall, churchill
surrey/middlesex - douglas, conisbee, childs, lyon groombridge