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Derbyshire / Re: Blands
« on: Thursday 09 April 20 21:31 BST (UK) »
Hi Donna,
Good to hear back from you. Like I said before I only stumbled across this by chance. I've maybe jumped in a bit two footed, as they say, as I've never actually studied or researched my family tree or anything like that. So not clued up at all on the workings of this site, but couldn't see any other way of making contact. Therefore took the plunge and signed up.
After reading through previous posts I could see you'd drawn a bit of a blank on our mysterious side of the Bland family & I'm thinking "hang on that's us".
I see a member called Marp has come up with snippets of information which to be fair are reasonably accurate.
His auntie he mentions would be my great auntie Olive whom was indeed married to my great uncle Edmund (Uncle Eddie).
I can remember spending time as a child at theirs during the school holidays many years ago with my father at Bow wood farm in Holloway. Which has since been sold on after the passing of Olive. Uncle Eddie has I knew him, passed many years before.
The family feud/disagreement mentioned isn't quite so straight forward to explain & most probably not fair to discuss on this open forum anyhow.
Further more it wasn't so much a disagreement amongst the Blands themselves, but I do know what it's referring to. Hence why I think it's probably not correct should I say to openly discuss this particular subject here.
I wouldn't of thought that's a reason you've been struggling to gain information on our side of the Blands.
But I don't mean to disrespect Marps input in anyway or form because he has provided you with very creditable information & even he & I must be distantly related to one another.
I feel I can provide a fair amount of information but as I mentioned before my late father's sister (could really fill in a lot of blanks).
We often joke I should visit her for a lesson on our family history before it's too late. The sad thing is it's very true!!! So on a more positive note let's see what we can all learn from this
Cheers Dave
Good to hear back from you. Like I said before I only stumbled across this by chance. I've maybe jumped in a bit two footed, as they say, as I've never actually studied or researched my family tree or anything like that. So not clued up at all on the workings of this site, but couldn't see any other way of making contact. Therefore took the plunge and signed up.
After reading through previous posts I could see you'd drawn a bit of a blank on our mysterious side of the Bland family & I'm thinking "hang on that's us".
I see a member called Marp has come up with snippets of information which to be fair are reasonably accurate.
His auntie he mentions would be my great auntie Olive whom was indeed married to my great uncle Edmund (Uncle Eddie).
I can remember spending time as a child at theirs during the school holidays many years ago with my father at Bow wood farm in Holloway. Which has since been sold on after the passing of Olive. Uncle Eddie has I knew him, passed many years before.
The family feud/disagreement mentioned isn't quite so straight forward to explain & most probably not fair to discuss on this open forum anyhow.
Further more it wasn't so much a disagreement amongst the Blands themselves, but I do know what it's referring to. Hence why I think it's probably not correct should I say to openly discuss this particular subject here.
I wouldn't of thought that's a reason you've been struggling to gain information on our side of the Blands.
But I don't mean to disrespect Marps input in anyway or form because he has provided you with very creditable information & even he & I must be distantly related to one another.
I feel I can provide a fair amount of information but as I mentioned before my late father's sister (could really fill in a lot of blanks).
We often joke I should visit her for a lesson on our family history before it's too late. The sad thing is it's very true!!! So on a more positive note let's see what we can all learn from this
Cheers Dave