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Offline Jeuel

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Re: skeletons
« Reply #18 on: Sunday 30 November 14 15:57 GMT (UK) »
Illegitimacy and getting married just before the birth of a child is commonplace in my tree. 
I have several lunatics and a couple of suicides.  Also a gt x 3 uncle who ended up in Broadmoor after cutting his pregnant fiancee's throat with a cut-throat razor.  It was his father that committed suicide the same way.

I don't think our ancestors were any worse or better than we are, they were just people, with failings and faults like us.  Although I do also have a few churchwardens and a beadle in the family too!
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Higho in London
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« Reply #19 on: Sunday 30 November 14 16:43 GMT (UK) »
I am inclined to agree, I don't think it is reasonable to judge one age against the norms of another. Remember the 19th century is now almost 115 years in the past.
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« Reply #20 on: Sunday 30 November 14 16:50 GMT (UK) »
If your family does not have skeletons then everyone must have been cremated.
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Re: skeletons
« Reply #21 on: Sunday 30 November 14 22:30 GMT (UK) »
 ;D ;D

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Re: skeletons
« Reply #22 on: Sunday 30 November 14 23:22 GMT (UK) »
I love all my skeletons bigamists , convicts  I think they would be the ones to have at a dinner party. Lots of interesting conversation. Take Care Lynette  ;)
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« Reply #23 on: Monday 01 December 14 12:35 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: lyn22 on Sunday 30 November 14 23:22 GMT (UK)
I love all my skeletons bigamists , convicts  I think they would be the ones to have at a dinner party. Lots of interesting conversation. Take Care Lynette  ;)
But take care to nail everything down first! :D
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« Reply #24 on: Monday 01 December 14 12:51 GMT (UK) »
Sorry, pressed wrong button, didnt mean to post again
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« Reply #25 on: Monday 01 December 14 13:16 GMT (UK) »
 Red Roger I thought of that after I posted I would have to count the cutlery. The one I would love at the dinner party would be my G G Grandfather he was in the English Navy and would have some great stories and could tell me how he got to Australia. Take Care Lynette :o
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Re: skeletons
« Reply #26 on: Tuesday 02 December 14 11:48 GMT (UK) »
An interesting thread.  I love finding the skeletons.

My best find is  the grandson of my Gt x 3 Grandfather.   4 times married. Murdered wife no 4  in USA  1882. Found Guilty.  He  himself was sprung from Jail by a Lynch mob and subsequently beaten to death by a hammer to his head!  He also murdered a guy when he was in army. Served time in Jail and escaped. He  was a wife beater, tried  unsuccessfully to murder second wife.  Was accused of poisoning his step father!  A great deal was written about this evil b*****d. I have many articles etc.

As the family are  prominent figures in the area today if I have been told  they would not welcome my digging up the past.  They prefer to sweep it under the carpet.

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