Crazy where family history can lead

[Josimojo]

and here he is

just to say that loads of the family were transported to Australia and also a good few were hung (one at Yate jail in Gloucester)

so not all good

Never realised you had to put measurements on the census!

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Family oral history said we were all army back for 16 generations turns out we were all fish porters until 3 generations back.

Pikemen then...surely...or we're they in the Coldstream?

 

[Seagull on the wing]

Grandfather wounded at the second battle of the Somme and died 10 days before the Armistice
Wife's great great grandfather was last Highwayman (Jack) to be hung at Lewes....

 

[Camicus]

Pikemen then...surely...or we're they in the Coldstream?

As it happens..... I see you keep fishing for details

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Family history is great, if only to make you feel a bit humbled by what your predecessors went through or achieved.

What gets me though is when people say "our family are Normans" or "we were all woodcutters" etc. Go back seven generations - just a couple of hundred years in some cases - and you have 126 grandparents to consider. Most of those people had never heard of each other and all lived different lives. Following the father's line, because of the family name, is a fascinating exercise but you only get a tiny strand of a much bigger and more varied picture.

And go back to the time of the Plantagenets, and you have several million direct ancestors. It would be surprising if you WEREN'T descended from a Plantagenet AND a Norman AND a Celtic prince AND a Roman soldier AND a bloke whose cousin knew the Pope.

 

[seagully]

My Mum started researching our family history recently. My Granddad was originally from the East End but was evacuated during the war and eventually adopted by the family he stayed with. Turns out his biological father was rather chummy with Oswald Mosley. That's him in the photo, to Mosley's right (ironically enough). Not something to be particularly proud of, but interesting nonetheless!

 

[The Birdman]

We lead pretty boring life's compared to our ancestors the previous thread was intresting as many young pepole were part of the Brown shirts, which was a dangerous political party of its time. I recommend researching familey trees you will all find intresting things about you past, good and bad.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

My Mum started researching our family history recently. My Granddad was originally from the East End but was evacuated during the war and eventually adopted by the family he stayed with. Turns out his biological father was rather chummy with Oswald Mosley. That's him in the photo, to Mosley's right (ironically enough). Not something to be particularly proud of, but interesting nonetheless!

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If you are going to get yourself adopted, it might be some consolation to discover that you've escaped the clutches of a fascist thug.

 

[pastafarian]

My Mum started researching our family history recently. My Granddad was originally from the East End but was evacuated during the war and eventually adopted by the family he stayed with. Turns out his biological father was rather chummy with Oswald Mosley. That's him in the photo, to Mosley's right (ironically enough). Not something to be particularly proud of, but interesting nonetheless!

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crikey thats an interesting photo

 

[seagully]

If you are going to get yourself adopted, it might be some consolation to discover that you've escaped the clutches of a fascist thug.

My thoughts exactly!

My Granddad had no idea until recently but remembers visits from a 'well spoken aristocratic man' to the family home when he was a child which must have been Mosley.

 

[lost in london]

Go back seven generations - just a couple of hundred years in some cases - and you have 126 grandparents to consider.

Couple of decades in Croydon.

 

[Curious Orange]

And go back to the time of the Plantagenets, and you have several million direct ancestors. It would be surprising if you WEREN'T descended from a Plantagenet AND a Norman AND a Celtic prince AND a Roman soldier AND a bloke whose cousin knew the Pope.

That only works if you can actually trace back that far, a bastard will soon scupper that (says the descendant of a bastard)!

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

We lead pretty boring life's compared to our ancestors the previous thread was intresting as many young pepole were part of the Brown shirts, which was a dangerous political party of its time. I recommend researching familey trees you will all find intresting things about you past, good and bad.

I think his relative was one of moseleys blackshirts rather than one of Hitlers brownshirts.

They're all nazi twats anyway I suppose. But colour was very important to them.

 

[TheFatBallBoy]

We lead pretty boring life's compared to our ancestors the previous thread was intresting as many young pepole were part of the Brown shirts, which was a dangerous political party of its time. I recommend researching familey trees you will all find intresting things about you past, good and bad.

Might even find your ancestors were throwing Irish farmers off their land and stealing it?

 

[Kumquat]

I'm related to Chris Huhne apparently.

 

[terryberry1]

I'm related to Chris Huhne apparently.

Thats unfortunate. Will you visit him when he goes down?

 

[Kumquat]

Thats unfortunate. Will you visit him when he goes down?

Probably not. Lost my licence. My girlfriend was locked in the bathroom sobbing when I needed someone to take the points. Haven't spoken to her since.She's very clear just how much she let me down though.

 

[Superphil]

I'm related to Chris Huhne apparently.

Liar

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Liar

I suspect he's really related to Mrs Huhne, but doesn't want to admit it.

 

[Kumquat]

Liar

OK, I admit. I'm Victor Pistorius.