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"Alive with your Ancestors"
« on: Wednesday 30 March 11 23:19 BST (UK) »
Do you ever stop to think about who was alive during the time of you ancestors, and what great events were happening in the world?

I often think about what music could have been available to my Gx3 grandfather when I realise that his dates almost exactly match those of Ludwig van Beethoven and that Mozart died two years after Thomas was given 'free passage' to Australia.   Napoleon was marching around Europe, Jane Austen was alive and well - etc.

What was going on in the world  when your ancestors were around?   (Stay back beyond your Great grandparents.)

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Gaunt, Ransom, McNally, Stanfield, Kimberley. (Tasmania)
Brown, Johnstone, Eskdale, Brand  (Dumfriesshire,  Scotland)
Booth, Bruerton, Deakin, Wilkes, Kimberley
(Warwicks, Staffords)
Gaunt (Yorks)
Percy, Dunning, Hyne, Grigg, Farley (Devon, UK)
Duncan (Fife, Devon), Hugh, Blee (Cornwall)
Green, Mansfield, (Herts)
Cavenaugh, Ransom (Middlesex)
 

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Re: "Alive with your Ancestors"
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 30 March 11 23:26 BST (UK) »
My GG uncle was in the army in Egypt at the same time as Kitchener of the Your Country Needs You posters.Does that count Wiggy.

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SCOTLAND: Wardlaw Steen/Stein Tweedie McBride McEwan Pate/Peat Brown Somerville Bishop Farier/Ferrier Wood  Torrance Gibb Ross Dunlop Downs Richardson Ramsey Story Snaddon/Sneddon Auld Allan McLean McInnes Mason Law Lawson Kerr Cockburn Christie Ballingall Wardrope Weir Wallace Scott.
IRELAND: Welsh Clifford Lee Allingham Keane Dale Robinson Greer McVey Bingham Skelton Carson Broomfield Clark McEwan/McKeown McCreary McLaughlan.
YORKSHIRE: Cudworth Smith Cope Coulton Hainsworth

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Re: "Alive with your Ancestors"
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 30 March 11 23:34 BST (UK) »
I should think so!!   ;D

I suddenly realised that some of the younger RCers are going to find Grandparents and rellies quite recently.  I was so surprised to find I was researching people of my own generation  recently - hadn't realised I'd come so far forward!

Should I have said before 1900 as a time limit??  ;)

Gaunt, Ransom, McNally, Stanfield, Kimberley. (Tasmania)
Brown, Johnstone, Eskdale, Brand  (Dumfriesshire,  Scotland)
Booth, Bruerton, Deakin, Wilkes, Kimberley
(Warwicks, Staffords)
Gaunt (Yorks)
Percy, Dunning, Hyne, Grigg, Farley (Devon, UK)
Duncan (Fife, Devon), Hugh, Blee (Cornwall)
Green, Mansfield, (Herts)
Cavenaugh, Ransom (Middlesex)
 

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Re: "Alive with your Ancestors"
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 30 March 11 23:39 BST (UK) »
On the day my great great grandparents married,November 11th 1864, General Sherman was destroying the town of Rome in Georgia during the American Civil War.

Right I am going to let someone else have a go now ;D

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SCOTLAND: Wardlaw Steen/Stein Tweedie McBride McEwan Pate/Peat Brown Somerville Bishop Farier/Ferrier Wood  Torrance Gibb Ross Dunlop Downs Richardson Ramsey Story Snaddon/Sneddon Auld Allan McLean McInnes Mason Law Lawson Kerr Cockburn Christie Ballingall Wardrope Weir Wallace Scott.
IRELAND: Welsh Clifford Lee Allingham Keane Dale Robinson Greer McVey Bingham Skelton Carson Broomfield Clark McEwan/McKeown McCreary McLaughlan.
YORKSHIRE: Cudworth Smith Cope Coulton Hainsworth

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Re: "Alive with your Ancestors"
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 31 March 11 00:01 BST (UK) »
And some of mine were with Sherman's army.

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1831-1836  -  Darwin's voyage on the Beagle
1834  -  Richard Henry Dana [Two Years Before the Mast] sailed from Boston, bound for California.  That year, my gg grandfather sailed from Scotland to New York with his family, including my g grandfather, aged one year.

1859  -  The Origin of Species published.  My g grandparents were married that year in a small village on the Wisconsin frontier.
Wiltshire:  Banks, Taylor
Somerset:  Duddridge, Richards, Barnard, Pillinger
Gloucestershire:  Barnard, Marsh, Crossman
Bristol:  Banks, Duddridge, Barnard
Down:  Ennis, McGee
Wicklow:  Chapman, Pepper
Wigtownshire:  Logan, Conning
Wisconsin:  Ennis, Chapman, Logan, Ware
Maine:  Ware, Mitchell, Tarr, Davis

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Re: "Alive with your Ancestors"
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 31 March 11 00:08 BST (UK) »
Sorry Erato,I should have mentioned he didn't do it on his own.Wouldn't want to take the credit from your rellies ;D

George.
SCOTLAND: Wardlaw Steen/Stein Tweedie McBride McEwan Pate/Peat Brown Somerville Bishop Farier/Ferrier Wood  Torrance Gibb Ross Dunlop Downs Richardson Ramsey Story Snaddon/Sneddon Auld Allan McLean McInnes Mason Law Lawson Kerr Cockburn Christie Ballingall Wardrope Weir Wallace Scott.
IRELAND: Welsh Clifford Lee Allingham Keane Dale Robinson Greer McVey Bingham Skelton Carson Broomfield Clark McEwan/McKeown McCreary McLaughlan.
YORKSHIRE: Cudworth Smith Cope Coulton Hainsworth

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Re: "Alive with your Ancestors"
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 31 March 11 00:09 BST (UK) »
My Gx7 grandfather was born the year The Great Plague of London started in 1665. Luckily for me he didn't catch it.  ;D
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Re: "Alive with your Ancestors"
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 31 March 11 00:11 BST (UK) »
Too late at night to answer this, I'll have a look at the records of my older ancestors tomorrow.

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Re: "Alive with your Ancestors"
« Reply #8 on: Thursday 31 March 11 00:14 BST (UK) »
Great thread though,well done Wiggy.
SCOTLAND: Wardlaw Steen/Stein Tweedie McBride McEwan Pate/Peat Brown Somerville Bishop Farier/Ferrier Wood  Torrance Gibb Ross Dunlop Downs Richardson Ramsey Story Snaddon/Sneddon Auld Allan McLean McInnes Mason Law Lawson Kerr Cockburn Christie Ballingall Wardrope Weir Wallace Scott.
IRELAND: Welsh Clifford Lee Allingham Keane Dale Robinson Greer McVey Bingham Skelton Carson Broomfield Clark McEwan/McKeown McCreary McLaughlan.
YORKSHIRE: Cudworth Smith Cope Coulton Hainsworth
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