Four Trees - Our Great Grandfathers

[genjen]

Here are my four

Arthur Bollands born and died Middlesbrough
John Stephenson born Redcar, died Middlesbrough (in the cinema)
George Seaton born Skelton died Eston
Clifford Wood born Chapel Allerton, died Lazenby

Jane

Really in the cinema? How careless. Did he see the end of the film?

When did Clifford Wood die?

[Nutty1966]

We never knew if he did the see the end of the film, gt grandad and gt grandma went twice a week to the cinema, she had give him a nudge at the end thinking he was asleep, but sadly not, she had to argue her corner so he could be brought home and not taken to the morgue I have the newspaper cutting somewhere, it states what was on at the cinema,

Will check on Clifford,

[Zelley]

Interesting to hear the details re the film at  the cinema!

[Richard Knott]

I'd like to add my great-grandfathers too.
John Griffith JONES.  No details at all on this chap.  I have not dared to try to search for Jones yet.
Dot.

I see from other posts that he married Ellen and had a daughter Margaret Elizabeth. Rather than clutter this link I have sent you a PM with details of this family in 1881 in Wales and 1891 in London.

Richard

[littleclaire]

Mine are.....

Daniel Rouse Nicholls b1889 d 1947 Hartlepool. He was a shopkeeper and my Grandad was an identical match to him.
Alfred James Mattey b 13 Aug 1894 Hereford. Died 10 Aug 1968 Bristol. He was on a ship that was torpedoed during the first world war and a German plane crashed in his family farm in WW2. His mother died when he was very young, and his father remarried, so he was brought up by his Uncle and Aunt.
William Wright b 1885 Halifax. Died 1958 Durham
Joseph Forsyth b 28 Jan 1901 Chester le Street. Died 23 Nov 1966 Chester le Street. He was a miner.

Claire

[Kevinshouse]

my 4 g grandfathers are:
James Brook
Walter Brear
Joseph Smales
Herbert Sharp

and my husbands 4 g grandfathers are:
George William Hutchinson
Sam Whittaker
Henry Hanson Graham
Oliver Bedford

Susan

[Zelley]

William John Simpson ZELLEY (1855 - 1900)

As we look at the history of our great grandfathers and great grandmothers
there are some interesting stories to tell.

William J S Zelley was born in Weymouth, Dorset in 1855.
In 1875, he married Elizabeth Ann Baker at the Holy Trinity Church in Weymouth. Witnesses were William George Baker and Maria Susan Zelley.
  Of interest, both their fathers Richard Baker and Richard Zelley were members of the British Coastguard.

  The first three children were born in Weymouth -
Annie Susan, Elizabeth Kate and Louisa Rose Zelley.  About 1882 or 1883, they moved to Canada and settled in Ontario.  Four children were born bfore
the family moved to Nanaimo where Henry William and Elsie Hope Zelley
were born.

In 1897, during a storm, a great oak tree hit the roof of the family dwelling
killing young Herbert John Zelley and injured others.  Tragedy struck again in
1900 when William Zelley, Richard Kenyon, and John Cordell drowned when
Zelley's sailing vessel capsized.

In August 1990, I wrote an article titled:
"Marine tragedy sad tale from past" which was published in the "Nanaimo Times".  One slice of the story was as follows:

"When the men failed to return, a search party comprised of Messers
Bennett, Baxter, Clark and Cordell set out in The New Vancouver Coal Company
launch and searched until darkness.  On Tuesday morning various groups
including Harry Bennett and Arthur Dixon, set out in row boats and other vessels,
to search sea and shore." - Brian Zelley, 1990. 

[Berni]

hi
my great grandfathers are
michael b o'shea b 1860 caherciveen co kerry
thomas cadden b 1855 granard co longford
william dempsey b 1860 sully glamorgan
patrick o'brien b ireland

[Hodgkiss]

True - but when one parent is illegitimate and the fathers name is not on the original birth certificate - you cannot get past 3 gt grandfathers - no matter how hard you try. 

Burrow Digger

My great grandad was illegitimate. And so was all his siblings.  But through extensive research, i eventually found evidence in a newspaper article that proved who their father was.

So you never know, and you should never give up.