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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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i decided to do family tree but my mum hijacked it and beat me to it but its given her plenty to do now she is retired so i don't mind
its been very interesting
we had a pioneer in africa, a reverand and someone that was thought a sheep rustler and sent to australia but they then found him innocent and sent him home but he died on the journey back
there was a french fella that started off in service in london but ended up a well off business man
we had lots of farmers, publicans and lawyers
a running theme was they all had good lifes with big houses and staff to run them and they all died leaving small fortunes due to all seeming to of been business minded untill a couple of generations back n since then we have all been skint 
it looks like there was a lot of business minded people through the familt tree i just wanna know how come that mind missed me  i don't want anything handing to me on a plate i would just love to of been able to of been a sucess like they were
its been really interesting stuff, no one famous or infamous but definately interesting and has given my mum hours of fun researching it |
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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago
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My brother and I started this 6 years ago when our father died, and what we discovered was amazing.
Our family almost all hail from Stirling, or one or two villages, now suburbs of that town in Scotland.
Our Great Grandfather held the post of Minister of the Poor, in the Town Council around 1900. This was a forerunner of the Benefits system as we know today, and it was his job to issue emergency funds to the destitute, the poor and so on.
The usual post holders had always had bad reputations; they were d*unkards, they were abusive to those poor wretches who needed financial handouts, but our relative turned that appalling image on its head, and in contrast, he had a superb reputation and was highly looked up to and respected.
When he died, it is reported that the entire town closed down for the day as a mark of respect to him, and thousands lined the streets to watch his cortege pass through the town.
There is still a painting of him in the old Council chambers to commemorate his popularity.
His wife too, had a rare occupation; she was a gent's barber. That was a very rare occupation for a woman in those days, but her salon (to use today's phrasing) was a few doors away from the Council Chambers, and so she got all the Councillors plus the Mayor and other local dignitaries in to get their hair cut.
She too, was very popular and well known in the town; her funeral too was given the same treatment, with the town closing down as a mark of respect.
We haven't around to Mum's side of the family! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I'm scared to look too far back into my family's past. My mum is as nutty as a fruit cake....... she's the only person I know who managed to work her ticket and convince The Army she was not the full shilling.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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i absolutely love the programme heirhunters which is on bbc1 in the mornings. some of the cases they go throw trying to marry money left without a will to its rightful owners are really touching.
one day (when I have more time) I will do mine. i googled my natural father last year and found pics of me as a baby that I hadn't seen before. he had gone back only a couple of generations on his side but interesting all the same.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My dad met a man who was looking into our family tree, unfortunately my dad passed away 3 yrs ago and I don't know who the gentleman was so no idea how far he got  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I've researched my family tree back to 1795, but nobody that interesting, unless you count my grandad's cousin, who murdered his wife... "
I did once google my surname; found a young girl in an American prison for having a baby out of wedlock given that I have relatives in British Colombia, its a possibility that this girl was a very distant relative  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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winston churchill was a relation.we also owned stately homes and once loaned money to the then royal family.
we also found a relation who was a sea captain during slave trade and married one of the african slaves. that must have caused some much controvesy.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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hubby did his side he found out his family have never lived more then 20 miles from were we live now plus his great granfather was a wolds waggoner in the first world war and was one of the first to land in france |
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It is very interesting - not gone too far back to discover that dads side descended from Irish stock and mums from French Jews.
I think the genes must be strong on the Irish side cos I'm the spit of my dad as he was of his.
Just wish the genes weren't so strong in the slaphead baldy department |
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" his great granfather was a wolds waggoner in the first world war and was one of the first to land in france"
Dad has some postcards sent by his grandad from the trenches (to his mother) in WW1. They're lovely and poignant. Not worth cock all monetarily, but the sentimental value from a family history perspective is priceless. |
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" his great granfather was a wolds waggoner in the first world war and was one of the first to land in france
Dad has some postcards sent by his grandad from the trenches (to his mother) in WW1. They're lovely and poignant. Not worth cock all monetarily, but the sentimental value from a family history perspective is priceless."
i had similar to this
my grandmother left me her jewellery box and in the bottom of it was love letters my grandfather had sent her before they married, initially reading them felt like i was invading their privacy but it was so lovely to see in words just how much he loved my grandmother |
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" his great granfather was a wolds waggoner in the first world war and was one of the first to land in france
Dad has some postcards sent by his grandad from the trenches (to his mother) in WW1. They're lovely and poignant. Not worth cock all monetarily, but the sentimental value from a family history perspective is priceless.
i had similar to this
my grandmother left me her jewellery box and in the bottom of it was love letters my grandfather had sent her before they married, initially reading them felt like i was invading their privacy but it was so lovely to see in words just how much he loved my grandmother"
sad to think that this type of thing has had it's day (in any meaningful numbers anyway)
makes you realise how 'cold' and 'impersonal' emails and text messages are when compared to ink on paper |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I find it fascinating how many of you have researched your family history/tree and have you discovered anything interesting.
i'm part german "
only as far as the jackboots tho |
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