What did you inherit from your ancestors?

[Katie Steele]

The only thing I have is a lot of postcards dating from 1905. They do have a lot of names on them and one even mentions a nan griffith coming over from Canada but my g.grandmother didn't have a nan griffith only Lewis and Jones
There were some postcards dated earlier and lots of books and furniture etc... I wish I had but when my grandad died his brother came over to the house and decided to either burn everything that was his parents or take for him self. My dad hasn't spoke to that side of the family since, wish he would though they hold all the photos of the family.

Katie

[mitchell]

I got my Granny's brass bellows  I used to love playing with them when I was a kid.

Elaine

[deeiluka]

My inherited treasures include my great grandmother's piano that she received for her 13 th birthday, and bound copies of her music and her mother's music. I also have a set of 25 of Sir Walter Scott's novels that are the size of a small prayer book. They were given to me by my great grandfather just before he passed away.

But my very favourite inherited belonging is my grandfather's handmade Christening  gown.

......dee

[LA.Blue]

I have a biscuit barrel from my ggrandmother.  It's quite small and neat.  It wouldn't have kept my lot going for long !  I use it for teabags.  I know I'm running  a risk of it getting broken but it just feels right to use it.

[kesannah]

I have my Grandmothers wedding ring, my MILs wedding ring. BMDs and other documents including memoriam cards. Various objects from both World Wars. Ornaments, flat irons,Portrait photos of my Grandfather, l of my Grandmother with my Mother as a young baby.and a small green glass vase that was my Mothers(she died when I was 9.) Grandads chiming clock, that was working perfectly well until the day he died and which has never worked since. I would not part with any of these things.

[meles]

My granddad left me a pair of cuff links and his signet ring with a (tiny) diamond in it. 

Then we were burgled and they pinched them. 

But when I was 3 he gave me a clockwork Horby train set and I still have the engine. 

meles

[PaulaToo]

I have THE TEAPOT
It was Gran Sarah's teapot, and as such meant a lot to my father. That teapot was a vision of home to him. When Gran died, the teapot went to Aunt Win, (whose sewing machine with its treasure trove drawers I was later to inherit also.) When Aunt Win died, Dad was down there like a shot. He wanted that teapot. It's a Wedgewood style teapot in blue and white, but someone of the family found it quite funny that my little father wanted it. 'It's not Wedgewood, you know.' Dad came home with his teapot, he was almost in tears.
Does something have to be valuable before you can love it?
I don't think so, because now that teapot sits on a shelf along with Gran Sarah's two little china figues of a boy and girl, and a fantastic glass mushroom that we brought back from one of our holidays in Switzerland. Blue and white and glittering glass. Yes, that's my home and what will be passed on down to son and heir.

[sem73]

Something I've funnily enough not yet had to use!!............
Can't remember the correct term for it but it's my g g grandmother's......

One of those wooden things you put over your shoulders and hang buckets from!!......she was a dairymaid!!!

On a sadder note I've also got bundles of letters from my grandmother's brother to his parents while he a patient at a mental hospital from the age of 10 til he was 45 when he died in 1960 he was admitted because he was an epileptic, how times have changed!

Sarah

[meles]

Sarah - I think it was called a yoke.

meles