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Re: I wish I could go back in time.
« Reply #45 on: Tuesday 11 April 06 21:31 BST (UK) »
HI Geraldine - they hide it because they know their parents/Grandparents would want them to hide it -a different time and respecting peoples wishes.

 I would like to go back in time and comfort  my poor distraught ancestor and tell her that it really isn't a bad thing that you had an illegitimate child.  I'm sure there weren't many people giving her comfort at that time.

If I had a time machine (and had a return ticket) I would like to experience working class England in the 1800s - I'm sure I would use my return ticket very quickly.

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Re: I wish I could go back in time.
« Reply #46 on: Tuesday 11 April 06 22:40 BST (UK) »
Christmas 1914 to meet my great-grandmother and find out where her husband went!  Then a bit further back to 1891 cos I can't find him then either!!

Steph.

I suppose you've thought of the obvious answer, i.e. you've eliminated the possibility that he was killed fighting in the War?

I thought they took men up to 39 - and of course he could have lied about his age just as the young lads did.  Everyone seems to have been gung-ho to get over there.  Obviously he survived the war, whether he was combatant or not (and I supposed he could have gone over to help in some other way such as ambulance driving) but have you actually checked for a service record just to eliminate it?

My grandfather served in the 2nd world war, returned afterwards and presumably missed the army so he re-enlisted and fought in the Korean War.  He used to "disappear" for years at a time, according to his brother.  He said he wouldn't hear from Teddy for ten years at a time and then suddenly he would turn up at the back door saying hello as if he hadn't been away.  It has occurred to me that maybe my grandad didn't adapt well to civvy life and got into trouble, ending up in prison for long periods. I hope not though.

Unlikely... he was 36 in 1914, I don't think they encouraged older men until a fair bit later.  He turned up again 30 years later but the only one of his children who would give him the time of day is long dead with no offspring.  It's infuriating!  But I'm sure I''ll find him one of these days.

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« Reply #47 on: Thursday 13 April 06 08:17 BST (UK) »
I would go back to 1887 (the last set of known lies she told were in this year) and ask my Jane Inglis Cotterill why she lied about her parentage so much, and twist her arm until she told me who they really are,  and also who was the mysterious seven year old son William Cotterill on the 1871 census when she had only married John Cotterill the year before.  I would actually have a lot to ask this lady because she seems to have not existed before 1870. 

Telling me to mind my own business after the time and money I have spent on trying to find her would not be good enough for me, I am afraid!!!

Her hubby John was just as bad...I am still not sure of his parentage or place of birth and so both of them have driven me up the wall.  And I would want to know how he ended up dying in the poorhouse when he had lots of living family, including Jane.

And yet, it is in  their line that I have contacted a precious family member and reunited her with her father's side of the family, whom she never knew as she was orphaned at a young age.

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CLARK - Dunbarton
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COTTERILL - Glasgow and England
CROMBIE - Glasgow, Ayr and Ireland
DOCHERTY - Glasgow
EASTON - Dunbarton, Renfrew and Glasgow
GLANCY - Glasgow and Ireland
GORDON - Glasgow and Ireland
GRANELLI - Glasgow and Italy
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Re: I wish I could go back in time.
« Reply #48 on: Thursday 13 April 06 13:39 BST (UK) »
Wow Nina  :o

With those tactics I'll just send you instead lol You'll probably get a lot more out of them than me

And how lovely for your new family member to find all those long lost members as far as she was concerned.

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« Reply #49 on: Thursday 13 April 06 14:01 BST (UK) »
Yes Carol, and she was only three when she was orphaned, brought up by her mother's side of the family and never knew anything about her dad or his family.  She was 70 by the time I found her, and the lovely part is that her first cousins had been looking for her for a long time.

My Dad is her second cousin, she too lives in Australia and we met at CHristmas...and I can see a family resemblance.  My Mum even said she has the same eyes as my Dad's granny (who was her grand-dad's sister).

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« Reply #50 on: Thursday 13 April 06 14:21 BST (UK) »
Have you changed your ID Nina?

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« Reply #51 on: Thursday 13 April 06 14:22 BST (UK) »
At least she will have some years to catch up with everyone and everything

Bless her

Carol
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« Reply #52 on: Thursday 13 April 06 15:16 BST (UK) »
My first stop would be Dundee, February 1869 where I'd gatecrash the wedding of my ggg-grandparents John MacGregor and Mary C. Barnes. 

I'd ask John:

Why are you revising your age downwards by 6 yrs in your marriage certificate? Where did you study for that Doctorate in Medicine which you profess to have, (because I can find no record of it)?
Have you ever actually practised medicine? Why, at (really) 38 years old, have you never appeared in any medical directory? And where were you in 1841, 1851 & 1861? In fact, where were you born?
Why are you about to leave Scotland for ever, taking your new bride within weeks to the Wild West - Dakota Territory - where gold has not yet been discovered and it's all about gunslinging in saloon bars?
Why in later life will you start using the middle initial "L", and what does it stand for?

I'd ask Mary:

What does your middle initial "C." stand for?  Is it a family surname? Why do you insist on abbreviating it in every document over a lifetime?

I'd ask Mary's father Robert (who was a witness):

Where were you born - at least decide once and for all whether it was Scotland or Ireland! You might think it is funny to alternate it in every census but I do not... :o

Hmmm...methinks I might not be a welcome guest at the wedding  ;)

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« Reply #53 on: Thursday 13 April 06 17:17 BST (UK) »
Hi wheeldon,you are so right that is the crux of it all,illigitimate babie's,or babie's born five months after the wedding, it's well know at the time ,but not spoken of,I know some of the storie's are sad,but Iv'e had a laugh at most of the posts,the tangled mess everybody been left to sort out.geraldine
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