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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Ayrshire => Topic started by: danieloks2ndaccount on Monday 23 March 20 15:18 GMT (UK)
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This is just a fun question I wanted to ask, I have met one of my great grandparents and she is still here at 95. She is my mothers step fathers mother.
Also these are my great grandparents that I never met, also I have 10 because my maternal grandmother remarried in 1980.
Great grandma A: 1918-1995
Great grandpa A: 1910-2003
Great grandma B: 1919-1997
Great grandpa B: 1920-1943 (died in WWII at 22)
Great grandma C: 1922-2005
Great grandpa C: 1923-1996
Great grandma D: 1927-1994
Great grandpa D: 1923-1989
Great grandma E: 1925-Living (the 95 year old one)
Great grandpa E: 1921-1998
My living Great grandma helped me out a lot with her siblings, her spouses siblings and her parents and grandparents. My grandparents help me too.
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I only met one of my own grandparents much less great grandparents. Sadly Nan developed dementia just as I was reaching an age where I would have asked her more questions.
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My uncle had dementia and died nearly 2 years ago now April 2018
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Your great grandparents were the same generation as my parents. My last gt grandparent died 11 years before I was born. All my father's grandparents were dead before he was born.
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I knew my father's mother and my mother's father, but they both died before I started researching the family.
Looking back, I realise that my paternal grandmother never spoke about any of her family other than her two brothers, both of whom I remember quite well, and their families. That was in spite of several of her cousins and their descendants still being alive and living in the same town!
She also tore out of the family albums any photographs with herself in them.
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Never met my great grandparents and by the time I was 10 only had one grandparent left.
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I was lucky to meet my grandparents and not for very long!
This question made me wonder so I checked
Of my eight Great Grandparents all were deceased before I was born and between 1886 and 1952! That's a 66 year period! One in every decade!
My paternal grandfather's parents died very young in 1886 & 1894
My maternal grandmother's parents lived into very old age and died in 1946 & 1952
although all born relatively closer together
Interesting to look at and I had never really thought about it
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I am in photos with two of my g grandparents but as they died when I was 4 I can't say that I knew them.
One thing that had never struck me until I got in touch with a second cousin through Ancestry was how little contact I had had with my father's extended family. I have no idea why but my father seemed determined to break off contact with all but his sister. I didn't realise this until after both my parents had died.
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I only met my paternal grandmother. I barely remember her although my older brother has some lovely memories of her. I was very young when my father died and we had no further contact with my fathers family that I remember after his death.
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Both of my grandfathers died before I was born - that's what got me into Family History ;D
Great Grandma A 1836-1911
Great Grandpa A 1843-1897
Great Grandma B 1862-1945
Great Grandpa B 1861-1950
Great Grandma C 1855-1909
Great Grandpa C 1851-1919
Great Grandma D 1874-1948
Great Grandpa D 1871-1952
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Only 2 of my great grandma's were alive when I was born. One died when I was 3, the other when I was 15
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I new my paternal GGrandmother very well I would bring her fresh milk and eggs from the farm everyday, she baked cookies and cakes ;) She died in her 103 year, very aware and had a fantastic memory but equally important she kept a journal in old ledgers. When she died I ended up with her ledgers and it was these plus, her stories and the annual travels with my Grandfather that got me started.
Don
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My Great Grandparents died in: 1939, 1956, 1920, 1950, 1923, 1936, 1942 and 1941, I was born in the 70s.
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My great-grandparents died between 2 and 41 years before I was born.
They lived for between 41 and 93 years.
The one who died 2 years before I was born, died age 78.
3 of my 4 grandparents died before I was 4.
If your ancestors were always the oldest (first born child) in a family you have more chance of knowing your great-grandparents than if your ancestors were always the youngest in the family.
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All my Great Grandparents died before I was born :-\
Carol
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My mum got to meet her maternal great grandma Isabella but Isabella died the year after my mum was born 1893-1972.
Also my mum got to meet her paternal great gran and grandpa (they were married) Robert -1975 and Janet/Jessie -1982.
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I was 2 years old when the last of my great grandparents died.
However I am now 75 and have 5 aunts and uncles still living on my maternal side. All in their 90s and all very sharp. They have helped me immensely on my mothers line.
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I was born in 1935 and I had two grandmothers living one of whom died when I was two. I had no great grandparents living. My grandmother I remember clearly, adored her. she died when I was 21.
My mother told me the family legends when I was a child and she said she and my darling grandmother had researched them and they were true. I do so wish they had left their research, I have never been able to prove them.
That is the wonder of great grandparents memory. My grandmother was born in 1875 so family memory goes back a long time. They knew the connections that I cannot find before 1837 in parish registers that are missing because of wear and tear and those that have not been transcribed yet.
We have 11 great grandchildren and they are the reason I am doing family research and have been for many years. There are some wonderful stories that we must hand on. My husband is 89.
When you emigrated to the other side of the world those wonderful people who voluntarily transcribed those records are a genealogical lifeline. I cannot thank them enough.
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Only one of my great grandparents' life coincided with mine. Most were orn in the early 19th century, meaning that they would be approaching their 200th birthdays about now! Two in fact my father's paternal grandparents were born in 1791 and 1798 respectively.
The one who made it was my mother's paternal grandmother, Emily Cornwell (1850-1941) I am certain that I would have met her, but as I was born in 1940 have no recollection of the occasion.
She was also the grandmother of WW1 Hero Jack Cornwell VC (1900-1916) died of wounds immediately after the Battle of Jutland.
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All of my great-grandparents died before I was born, but the last one lived to 103 and died five years before I was born. My older brothers remember her well and she used to talk about the family.
Great Grandpa A: 1897-1966
Great Grandma B: 1897-1989
Great Grandpa B: 1895-1966
Great Grandma B: 1895-1998
Great Grandpa C: 1899-1968
Great Grandma C: 1901-1962
Great Grandpa D: 1895-1968
Great Grandma D: 1907-1991
My mother's great grandmother was still alive when she was born, but she died when my mother was two and I don't think they ever met, as the great-grandmother was in a nursing home.
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My father's paternal grandfather was born in 1859 and died in 1945, when my father was 12. So I never met him: but he helped me with my research. In fact he got me started.
For he did genealogy himself, and wrote a book combining the results with a biography of his father and his own memoirs.
Thus we can pass our work forward to our own descendants whom we may never meet.
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My living Great grandma helped me out a lot
You are very very lucky! I find most people don't even really know their grandparents let alone their great grandparents, myself included.
Except that I have always held a dim visual memory of my maternal great grandmother lying in bed in our darkened spare bedroom in England. And me, barely 3 years old, peeking into the room. My great grandmother is my first memory! She died shortly after.
Now I'm able to piece events together, looking back it was a stressful time for the adults. My mother and her family were Scots living in England, my mother's father had died less than a year earlier and his death set in motion the loss of the farm and the loss of a home for my grandmother and her 90 year old mother.
Worse was to come as one of my mother's children was about to catch polio, but I would think looking after my great grandmother must have been an impossibility anyway, perhaps because of her aged care needs. I suspect great grandmother was put in a nursing home in nearby Droitwich, as that is where her death is registered.
If you are able to know a grandparent in your adult years, and have meaningful exchanges, you are very fortunate :)