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The Common Room / Re: RootsChat "Quick 'n Easy" (getting started)
« on: Friday 25 April 14 23:26 BST (UK) »
I was a member way back but clearly there have been changes so I need to start from scratch. 
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The Common Room / Re: RootsChat "Quick 'n Easy" (getting started)
« on: Friday 25 April 14 23:25 BST (UK) »
Apologies for this but I need to get three posts on the board in order to receive a pm someone is trying to send me.
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The Lighter Side / Re: Unfortunate surnames of the past
« on: Tuesday 15 January 08 23:17 GMT (UK) »
Well, I might as well put my two penn'orth in...
I have a Great Grandmother by the name of Fanny Bint...(God bless her
).
I have a Great Grandmother by the name of Fanny Bint...(God bless her
).
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The Lighter Side / Re: New occupation in my Tree!
« on: Tuesday 20 March 07 23:35 GMT (UK) »
Ooh, I know just how you feel, Lloydy. My tree is busting with Ag Labs and I recently struck gold with a "Bath Chair Proprietor" in Eastbourne. Pleased as Punch, I was!!!
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The Lighter Side / Re: Family rumours have they turned out to be true?
« on: Thursday 22 February 07 23:42 GMT (UK) »
Excuse me if this sounds ridiculous but I read this thread directly after reading the one about "Psychic Roots"...
CJ Thorpe. I looked at your family rumours and was struck by the one about the Great Uncle who was sent to Oz by his family after his flirtation with the housemaid. Just humour me will you, and tell me where he came from?
CJ Thorpe. I looked at your family rumours and was struck by the one about the Great Uncle who was sent to Oz by his family after his flirtation with the housemaid. Just humour me will you, and tell me where he came from?
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The Lighter Side / Re: A feeling of sadness
« on: Thursday 08 February 07 23:40 GMT (UK) »
I'm sure we all empathise with all these stories. Each time I receive a death certificate, I wonder why on earth I ordered it; they always upset me. The worst one for me was my maternal Grandfather's. He and my Grandmother were divorced soon after the birth of my Mum's younger sister and, as was the way in those days, all contact with his girls ceased. All I knew when I started my research, was his name. When I received his death certificate, it was to confirm that I was four years old when he died, and he'd never moved away. We were about five miles away from this man I never met and my Mother had not seen him in all those years. What a shame.
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The Lighter Side / Re: Four Trees -Our Great Grandmothers
« on: Wednesday 07 February 07 09:09 GMT (UK) »
Dad was an illegitimate, workhouse baby, so I only have three - some recent intriguing information though about his mother's whereabouts around the time of his birth...
Mary Jane Carr - Wiltshire. Lived in Imber; the village which no longer exists since it was taken over by the MoD during WW2.
Fanny Eliza(beth) Bint - Berks/Oxon, later Kent/Sussex border. My favourite just because of her silly name. Lots of twins in her family. She was a twin herself, to brother Herbert.
Priscilla King - Kent. More twins in this family and a King marrying a King which I've avoided dealing with up to now.
Mary Jane Carr - Wiltshire. Lived in Imber; the village which no longer exists since it was taken over by the MoD during WW2.
Fanny Eliza(beth) Bint - Berks/Oxon, later Kent/Sussex border. My favourite just because of her silly name. Lots of twins in her family. She was a twin herself, to brother Herbert.
Priscilla King - Kent. More twins in this family and a King marrying a King which I've avoided dealing with up to now.
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The Lighter Side / Re: Mug shots #3
« on: Wednesday 31 January 07 09:46 GMT (UK) »
Good to see you and your Dad, Bash. Great piccie.
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The Lighter Side / Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
« on: Tuesday 30 January 07 15:15 GMT (UK) »
And Mum with her doll.
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