« Reply #42 on: Sunday 02 July 06 19:50 BST (UK) »
I've loved reading your fascinating accounts. My preoccupation started about 5 years ago after my husband died and our daughter stopped her car in front of an unknown house and said "I know you don't believe in this sort of thing but I've made an appointment with a clairvoyant". I sat with a po face silently reciting nursery rhymes. the reading was taped and except for one or two common names I knew I had to check with older relatives about the rest. What got me started was her saying "His pals called him Harry but he preferred his real name Henry. He's wearing an army uniform, now he's changed into a flying uniform and waggling his arms about, he didn't come home from. ...., unfortunately the tape had run out. An aunt said she had an uncle Henry who died when she was about 3 yrs old. I collected over 500 names but no sign of 'Henry' then I realised he was William H. Fleming, a late conscript in WWI and he died in France August 1918 aged 41. His mother was English and his father was a German and as with German customs at the time his middle name was his given name. Through genesR I discovered the descendants of the man who brought my g.grandfather b1854 to England. The 'pop music' of the time was Hannovarian and there were many wandering bands of musicians travelling to such places as Turkey, India, etc. and Henry's father belonged to such a band travelling with them from the age of 8 playing his violin (they got more work if the band had a child or two in tow!). I'm enjoying the challenge and I heard another one this spring when daughter had a tarot reading evening. My reading didn't say anything about meeting a millionaire. I pricked my ears up as I was shuffling the cards when she started telling me about a smuggler - I'm following one at the moment born 1845 in Filey :-) Turns out my hubby's 'brook no nonsense' grandmother was wearing a smuggled ruby in her ring!!!! If anyone knows of a smuggler imprisoned 1904 (the year she gave me) I'd like to hear about him :-))
Cheers,
Rena
Aberdeen: Findlay-Shirras,McCarthy: MidLothian: Mason,Telford,Darling,Cruikshanks,Bennett,Sime, Bell: Lanarks:Crum, Brown, MacKenzie,Cameron, Glen, Millar; Ross: Urray:Mackenzie: Moray: Findlay; Marshall/Marischell: Perthshire: Brown Ferguson: Wales: McCarthy, Thomas: England: Almond, Askin, Dodson, Well(es). Harrison, Maw, McCarthy, Munford, Pye, Shearing, Smith, Smythe, Speight, Strike, Wallis/Wallace, Ward, Wells;Germany: Flamme,Ehlers, Bielstein, Germer, Mohlm, Reupke
