What is the biggest mystery in your tree?

[PaulaToo]

Don't feel bad about it, mc, my Mother died aged 84 still not knowing she was born out of wedlock. OK so the old rascals finally tied the knot, but all their children were well into the world by then.
The things we uncover, enough to make your hair curl, isn't it, wish mine would take the hint

[Nutty1966]

My biggest mystery is my G Grandmother Priscilla Gander born in Liverpool 1873/2, I can see her on the census for 1891 and 1901, but no birth for her and nothing for 1881, I wonder is she is illegitimate and made some story up.

 

Jane

[Gadget]

Another of my mysteries is how I ever made it! My mother only had 1/4 of an ovary left after lots of ops and somehow she managed to have my sister and me 

I came quite late on but I'm here 

Gadget

[Su]

Well, I've sort of solved one bit of my mystery.

I received the marriage certificate of Emma Wallace yesterday, on which her father was Charles Wallace, Cab Proprietor. I keep typing Cap Proprietor, that's the dyslexier.  I keep getting p's and b's, and L's and 4's mixed up.  Cap Proprietor would have been one of Paul E's ancestors 

Now I can't find a marriage for him and Mary Birch (nee Bearpark), though it does say she is a Widow on the 1851 and on her marriage cert to Robert White.  I need to find her marriage to Charles Wallace as that will tell me roughly when she returned from America (unless of course he came with her  ).

Nor have I still been able to find a birth cert for Emma.

And...who are all these Birch's, Bearparks, and Wallace's in Missouri 

I think I'm going to have to make my own story up about this lot.  Anyone got any ideas for a Title ?

Su

[Myfi!]

Henry LOCKWOOD married Elizabeth SMITH in Mendlesham Suffolk in 1810.
No children  appear until Robert 1820 born Rishangles Suffolk followed by seven more in Thorndon.

My mystery......why the almost ten year gap?........was Henry in the military?........was he transported for some felony?.......did he take a vow of celebacy?


myfi

[PaulaToo]

It's not always the case, but big gaps in the 'production line' can sometimes be caused by miscarriages. I have that in several of my families, when either they started late, or had one child and then there is no record of one until quite a few years later when the living conditions of the family had improved.

[gbuttery]

One of the biggest myseries I have relate to my MEINECKE family.

They were originally from Germany, so I wonder if gaps in there whereabouts meant they had gone back to Germany.

My great grandmother Johanna MEINECKE married a fellow German  (Adolf Bernardt ASSERT) in London in 1874. I have her on the 1891 census (in Winterton, Lincs remarried to my g grandfather Frederick FROW)
But where was she in 1881 ! ? ! She would have been 25.

Her parents (Ludvig & Beta MEINCKE) were in Hull, Yorkshire for all the censuses from 1871 - 1901.  Was Johanna in the UK in 1871 with her parents?  She certainly wasn't at the same address.

Why can I not find any mention of the deaths of Ludvig & Beta MEINCKE?  They were 70 & 69 respectively in 1901. Surely they didn't travel back to Germany before they died. There family were in Hull by this time. Why no death certificate?

I keep going back to search, but have not got any closer to discovering where they were

[alllegs]

I have another one now.....  see

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,178604.0.html

Any more help would be fab!!

Legs
xxxxx

[Deb D]

Not the biggest mystery, as such ... but ... why would my great grandmother marry her second husband in 1911 ... then keep the entire family in the dark, believing they were "living in sin", - even, reportedly, staging a second (registry office) marriage in the 1960s?