Four Trees - Our Great Grandfathers

[tdgower2]

Only know the three due to illegitimacy:

Leonard Charles Gower B. 1904 Bungay, Suffolk, D. 1975 Suffolk
William Henry Carter B. 1915 Tuddenham St. Mary, Suffolk, D. 1989 Tuddenham, Suffolk
Edward Charles Grimwood B. 1917 Lowestoft, Suffolk, D. 1983 Norfolk

Only William was alive when i was born and by coincidence we had the same birthday!
Leonard worked as a Painter and Decorator, William was a Forester and Farm labourer.
Edward was also an agricultural worker and was a Rear gunner in the Second World War. He won the Distinguished Flying Cross in 1945.

[pinefamily]

Only know the three due to illegitimacy.

Don't give up on that one. Only very recently, a fellow researcher (cousin?) found a document in the archives I had not seen which named my grandmother's father. Until then, I was the same, just a blank, and I had almost given up hope.

[tdgower2]

Thanks Pinefamily, that's an interesting story. There is a chance i may find out a bit more from my Grandmother, this man in question would be her father-in-law. I once heard that he may have been a butler and had immigrated to Australia after my Grandfather was born. That's all i know at the moment.

Kind regards, Tom

[pinefamily]

Well the story got a lot more interesting when, with the help of fellow rootschatters, I found a newspaper article on Trove, the Australian archives online, and found he was shot during the Boer War and so badly wounded he was actually officially listed as dead. After surviving, he went from England where he had recuperated to Canada. All this after fathering my grandmother. I suspect he didn't even know that he had gotten my great grandmother pregnant (they were both 17 at the time).

[grandma]

Isn`t amazing with all the things that we can dig up now, no secrets anymore.

[Deirdre784]

My 4 great grandfathers, all moved away from their birthplace....

Edward Lord - born in Essex in 1859, also lived in Gloucestershire and died in 1942 in Cardiff (patent fuel worker);
James Barry - born in Cork around 1856, died in 1926 in Cardiff (dock labourer);
Henry Griffiths - born in Pembrokeshire in 1856, died in 1931 in Cardiff (master tailor); and
Thomas Cope - born in Staffordshire in 1858, lived in Yorkshire and died in 1927 in Cardiff (baker, then school caretaker).

Deirdre

[Cdlong01]

James Alphonse Raggio was my grandfather.  He was not a sailor.  He was a grocer in Galveston, Texas and later in LaMarque, Texas.  He was called J.A, never Jack.  He had three daughters, three grandsons and three granddaughters.  He passed away in 1960.

[macwil]

I'm fortunate, I've got a full set:

Thomas Boraston 1860-1933 Ag Lab married twice. Total 10 children (7+3) (I'm descended from the 1st family)
Richard Tyler 1867-1918
James Wilson 1873-1948
John Thomas Berry 1861-1937

and in the spirit of equality, my Great grandmothers (in same order as above)

Ellen Noakes 1862-1897 died 14 days after giving birth to her 7th child.
Mary Ann Wyatt 1868-1952
Jane Ellen Berry 1876-1938
Elizabeth Ellen Bithell 1860-1913 (10 children)

No the two BERRY'S are not related. (at least not in 19th C.)

[LizzieW]

Although I know the name of all 4 of my g.grandfathers, I'm still searching for the origins of one of my g.grandfathers.  At least with DNA, I now have a link back to the 1841 census so I've got to research how he fits into this family in London (the modern descendants of which live in USA) and as I have always suspected are Jewish.

Sadly my dad's eldest sister, granddaughter of this particular g.grandfather destroyed all photos/paperwork etc. when her mother (his daughter) died, telling one of her sisters "We don't want anything to do with all that lot!"  I guess just after WW2, it perhaps wasn't prudent to be thought to be part (however small) of a Jewish family.  Oh well, I will find out who he was eventually and then I'll be able to post it on Rootschat for all the helpful people who've tried to find him for me previously.