What did you inherit from your ancestors?

[Roobarb]

No, this isn't about ailments! The very lovely 'Clucker' shown here belonged to my great grandmother. It has pride of place in my kitchen and I'm scared stiff of breaking it! My grandfather used to refer to it as the 'Clocker' -  it was probably just his County Durham accent!

[nanny jan]

I've got my grandma's 2 flat irons; she used to heat them on her gas rings and used them from 1921, when she married, until the 1960s when she was persuaded to get an electric iron! Her mother and grandmother were both laundresses.
 
Very boring compared to the "Clucker".


Nanny Jan

[Roobarb]

I'm sure they have their own charm Nanny Jan 

[Cal241]

From my granny I got a Victorian perfume bottle casket (with only one bottle, it should have two   ), some Goss china (you know those white figures with place names on) on a whatnot, a Whistling Boy (that reminds me I must pick that up from my mothers  ) and the best of anything ever a whole collection of postcards some dating back to 1901 with a load 1916 onwards that mentions family names and places they visited.

Cal  

[Iria]

Hi Everyone

i inherited my great grandmothers wedding ring her name was Mary ann Bottomley and she married William Harold in 1897 Liverpool

This is the only thing i have when my great grandmother died a lot was sold off in house clearence   and other family members got the rest

Regards

Iria

[patrish]

Love your chicken Roobarb, I am very fond of them and I dont mean for eating.
I had a pair of old plates but as per usual one got broken by the children when they were small. I also have a broach from my grandmother.

[indiapaleale]

I love that chicken!...I want one of those!

I inherited my grandmother's green glass rolling pin......with a shoelace tied around one end which she used for hanging it up.

She died in 1948 when I was 5 and I can just about remember her.

The rolling pin is brilliant when I put it in the fridge and get it really cold....does a great job on the pastry.

Tis my treasure

[stockman fred]

Grandad lived in this house so his books and things are all around, which is handy for looking up historical answers.
Going back further, great grandad left behind his Victorian farming books, his gunpowder flask and his lead shot mould, while strangely, I have Gt-gt grandad's "Wimble" which is a tool for making hay-ropes for thatching stacks.
He fell to his death while using it in 1863 and  somehow it's stayed around ever since.
Gt gt granny's Grandmother clock succumbed to woodworm, but the mechanism and face are OK and awaiting a new cabinet.
Fred

[MarieC]

Various things - my favourites at present are a solid silver cutlery set for one, marked with an "H", that my paternal grandmother used while at school in Sydney in the nineteenth century.  It's of high quality and in extremely good order - I use it myself!

I will inherit a silver dressing table set belonging to my gggrandmother Margaret Anne Cameron, who led a most adventurous life in the nineteenth century!  It is lovely, and I will treasure it enormously!

MarieC