sometimes the research is so very sad.....

[Flattybasher9]

As previously posted some time ago,

One family from Hatton of Fintray.

Mother and 4 children.

Jessie BRODIE 1868
Alexander BRODIE 1868
Katerine BRODIE 1868
Elizabeth BRODIE 1868
William BRODIE 1868

Diphtheria ran through the family.

Only the father and one daughter survived.


Malky

[EdCan]

You do not have to go back very far to come across this sort of thing. I have a relative who lost his wife and two young sons in WW2. He never remarried.

Ed

[rayard]

I was sad to find an ancestor had died in childbirth. Also one had died in the Workhouse Infirmary close to the hospital we now use. The Workhouse Arch, called the "Archway of tears" has recently been demolished, that is also sad!.
rayard.

[StanleysChesterton]

I was browing through some original PRs this morning and spotted one.... she was just 2 miles from town. It said

A stranger from (town name), married woman

And I thought ... "married? so a husband... didn't he ever notice?"  How long did he sit in front of the fire on his bum thinking "she only popped out to get my tea....."

[jaybelnz]

Yes Xin, I've often wondered if she was supposed to have gone to Australia with him, and if their son and his family would still have emigrated from London to the USA if she hadn't died!

Oh well, I'm sure we will all have lots of questions to ask our ancestors when we (hopefully) eventually meet them "upstairs" 🙏🙏  🤔🤔🤔

Mmm ... I wonder if they have Wifi up there??  Just think of the stories we could add to our trees!! 🤗🤗🤗👏

[Finley 1]

Cannot think of the word this morning... But there sure are many ---- What if's   in this research lark.


xin

[Andy_T]

The saddest event I found when researching people with my family name was a murder over 3/- debt

One life lost and another ruined in the fallout:
in 1875. A boatman lent another boatman (both in their 20's) the money and pawned his Sunday suit to raise the 3/-
When date to redeem the suit loomed he got drunk and demanded the money be re-payed and during the ensuing quarrel was hit over the head 3 times with a boat rudder and was later pulled out of a canal dead.

A murder verdict was commuted to manslaughter after an appeal for provocation and was sentenced to 15 years hard labour.   

Just to add to the tragedy the murdered young man was interred in a cemetery 50 miles from his family home as they could not afford the funeral costs.

Andy_T   

[Lisajb]

Yes Xin, I've often wondered if she was supposed to have gone to Australia with him, and if their son and his family would still have emigrated from London to the USA if she hadn't died!

Oh well, I'm sure we will all have lots of questions to ask our ancestors when we (hopefully) eventually meet them "upstairs" 🙏🙏  🤔🤔🤔

Mmm ... I wonder if they have Wifi up there??  Just think of the stories we could add to our trees!! 🤗🤗🤗👏

I’ll be posting “I know who Eliza Matthews is! And Rees Thomas!”

[Finley 1]

I’ll be posting “I know who Eliza Matthews is! And Rees Thomas!”


sounds interesting