Four Trees - Our Great Grandfathers

[MarieC]

Just found this thread and it's fascinating, but I don't understand this

I can only locate three because my grandfather didn't exist until his marriage in 1907 therefore no gt.grandad!

Did he just beam in from outer space or was he given a completely new identity for some reason??

Linda

Linda,

You must be one of those lucky few people who don't have ancestors who seemed not to be born, or not to die!! 

Many of us have people who seemed to appear on this earth as an adult.  Me, I have one who was apparently beamed up - he just disappeared, and I can't find a death or any trace of him! 

MarieC

[perth tiger]

Just found this thread and it's fascinating, but I don't understand this

I can only locate three because my grandfather didn't exist until his marriage in 1907 therefore no gt.grandad!

Did he just beam in from outer space or was he given a completely new identity for some reason??

Linda

i think she means that there is no evidence of her grandfather before his name appears on his marriage cert.
i have a gggran who is nowhere to be found before she marries my gggrandad


perth

[wendy47]

I have found mine and they are fairly normal   

William Samuel Sturge b 1867 Ledbury a quarryman

Walter Green Veal b 1869 b Brislington Somerset son of a yeoman farmer - moved to Wales at as he ran away from home after shooting his father's neighbour's bull and didn't wait for the beating. worked as a collier and a railway platelayer before joining up in WW1 aged nearly 40. Lived until 1954.

James Nash b 1867 Ladywood Birmingham a Greengrocer who travelled up & down between Birmingham & London dragging his long suffering mistress cum wife and young family with him on a cart.

Arthur Carlson b 1868 in Stepney, with a Swedish father, who worked as a railway clerk & died of meningitis aged 29 just after his dau was born.

One of my husband's paternal G Grandfathers was b in 1818. 

Wendy

[Della Crow]

My great grandfathers were –

James Alphonse Raggio (Jack) – mostly a sailor
Frederick Vaughan – a farmer
Henry Rockwell Green – a farmer and logger
William Clark – a farmer

They all lived on the US Gulf Coast - from Alabama to Texas.

[TTT]

First time user. I am researching the ancestors of Ernest George Swinford.

How do I communicate with the person who posted his name on this site?

Thanks
Tony Thomas
NZ

[Jellis]

Hi Tony 

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[Lolly2881]

Hi

My great grandfather is Ernest George Swinford abt 1885-1953 origanally from Stroud, gloucestershire but moved to south wales.

Lolly

[TTT]

I have done research on the ancestors of Ellen Eliza Scott who married James Swinford.
I can send data if you wish. Have you also done similar work?

Tony

[Joyful]

My four Great Grandfathers are:-

1 Robert George McCarthy b Strathbogie Station NSW (nr Glen Innes)

2 Lewis Jack b Avoch Ross & Cromarty

3 Neil McVicar b Cairndow Argyllshire

4 Joshua Gourlay b Port Glasgow

I have found them all and documented what I know of them

Joy