Four Trees - Our Great Grandfathers

[Zelley]

It is interesting comparing this thread with the great grandmother thread.  Maybe we should give them a second chance to catch
the great grandmothers in views and messages.

[Emmeline]

My 4 Gt.Grandfathers: -

John Henry Sealey b 1859 Hackney - died 1902.

William Henry Jennings b 1861 - Southwark.

Henry Robert Hodgkinson b 1856 - Deptford.

James Henry Tricker b 1853 - Newington - died 1899.

I have located my 8 sets of G.G.Grandparents and find that 3 of the GGGrandpas were born out of London -
one in Bradwell Nr the Sea - Essex, another in Groton - Suffolk and the last in Wigan........
Of the GGGrandmas only two were born out of London - one in Essex and the other in Durham......

[Zelley]

Attempting to refresh this thread,

[nickgc]

OK, I'll start off...

Ora A. Carter, a farmer and landowner in Iowa, USA m. Ida Fuqua

Albert F. Dunn, a carpenter in Iowa m. Jessie Dunn

John James McLellan, a logger & house builder from Nova Scotia m. Margaret Greer

Arthur J. Manson, (b. Orkney) chief engineer at Parliament Bldgs, Victoria BC, Canada m. Bertha Annie Simpson (b. Devon)

[kerryb]

It is interesting comparing this thread with the great grandmother thread.  Maybe we should give them a second chance to catch
the great grandmothers in views and messages.

Maybe that is because in certain circumstances you are more likely to know who the great grandmother was than the great grandfather   If you get my drift! 

Kerry

[carol8353]

Maybe that is because in certain circumstances you are more likely to know who the great grandmother was than the great grandfather   If you get my drift! 

Kerry

Is that something to do with the 'love em and leave em' attitude Kerry? 

[Myfi!]

My salt of the earth great grandads

George Matthew HARNESS 1836-1917 b. Burstwick, E.Yorks  ag lab

William WOOD 1848-1905 b. Tibthorpe, Yorks  ag lab

John PUFFETT 1848-1914 b. Filkins, Oxon  ag lab

Alfred COOK  1866-1933 b. Gt. Barrington, Glos  blacksmith



Myfi

[Cyfrifydd]

Here are my offerings:-

Paternal:-

David Saunders, born 5.11.1825, died about 1885; worked in the copperworks in Llanelly (as it was then spelt); married Mary Lewis.  Trying to confirm his date of death.

Daniel Thomas, born in Llanelly about 1833, died, I think, at sea about 1875; a sea captain; married Elizabeth Rees.  Trying to track his voyages.

Maternal:-

Alfred Nightingale, born in Greenwich on 20.2.1847 and died about December 1899, a stone mason; married Susannah Wharf.  They went to Portugal in the 1880s (where my grandfather was born), but came back.

Walter Solomon Whitaker, born about December 1846 in Henley-in-Arden and died in Camberwell in about June 1915; an agent for a cotton textile manufacturer; married Mary Kyle in Cork on 16.7.1873.  Trying to work out when and how they met as Mary was born in Ireland.

Cyfrifydd

[Reyz]

My four :

John PROTHERO (Protheroe) born 1850 in Longtown Hereford
Moved shortly after his birth to Merthyr Tydfil Glamorgan .
A Blacksmith and then a Coal Miner.

Charles SMITH born in Blaenavon in 1860 and lived near/in Brynmawr South Wales for most of his life.
A Coal Miner.
Despite the name I do have some information and a picture. 

William WHEAL born in Roxwell Essex in 1845
A Policeman in 1881 and then became a Gardener when his first wife died.

Charles Hilton BOGG born 1871 in Bermondsey Surrey .
Hilton was his Great Grandmothers middle name and perhaps a family surname at some time?
Charlie was a Lighterman and sadly drowned in the Thames shortly before my Grandmother was born.

Reyz