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Re: What did you inherit from your ancestors?
« Reply #36 on: Saturday 18 November 06 11:39 GMT (UK) »
 Now that is one thing that I would have loved to have inherited from my mother, curly hair, it costs me an arm and a leg to have curl put in. ;D
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Re: What did you inherit from your ancestors?
« Reply #37 on: Saturday 18 November 06 15:21 GMT (UK) »
I have curly hair - it costs me an arm and a leg to have it straightened!!  I've noticed recently that I'm starting to look a lot like my great-grandmother, Nellie Redfearn nee Giesen.  I "inherited" her wedding ring and the engagement and wedding ring of her daughter, my grandmother Joan Phillips nee Redfearn, but I don't regard any of these things as really mine.  They are family property and the responsibility makes me a bit anxious sometimes in case I lose them.  They are to be passed down the female line in the family but another thing that worries me is whether my niece (who's the only member of the next generation so far) will take the responsibility seriously.  So far she doesn't show much promise.  If she turns out like her mother, I'm not passing the rings onto her - she'd probably sell them!    :o
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Re: What did you inherit from your ancestors?
« Reply #38 on: Saturday 18 November 06 15:33 GMT (UK) »
Thats a good point you made there Lizzy, I  have 2 boys, neither are married as yet. 30 and 31.   I am going to have a struggle when it comes to my jewellery and that I have inherited .  Oh well cross that bridge when I come to it.
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Re: What did you inherit from your ancestors?
« Reply #39 on: Saturday 18 November 06 15:38 GMT (UK) »
Fingers crossed your boys will give you grand-daughters before too long and you can foster a sense of family and continuity in them.  My niece may turn out well - she is only ten and not a serious child at all.  Neither was I though.  But I remember when she was born, I carried her round the sitting room one day showing her photographs of her great-grandfather and great-great-great grandmother.  Even though she was only a few months old she did seem to look at the photographs, as I was saying "And that's Daddy's grandad . . ."   You never know! 
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Re: What did you inherit from your ancestors?
« Reply #40 on: Saturday 18 November 06 15:40 GMT (UK) »
One of my brother's is actually mad that I inherit all the jewelry, as the only daughter (with 5 brothers), but it's ok to him that his wife inherits all her mother's things as the only daughter (with 2 brothers). How's that for double standards.   ??? ::) And there are solutions, if he only bothered to ask. I'm not an ogre or a hoarder, you know :( And I certainly hope not to inherit this stuff for many many many years.  :-[

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Sligo: Davey (also Mayo), McCluskey, McNulty
Wexford and Staffordshire: Hayes, McClean
Galway and Staffordshire: Scott
Coventry: Wells, Collins, Palmer, Moody, Beck, Mickelwright, Husbands
Ireland: McNulty (Sligo), Kealy, Murphy (Carlow) Connolly, Gillen, Powell, Ryan, Moore, Martin
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Stahl, Russia to England to USA

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Re: What did you inherit from your ancestors?
« Reply #41 on: Saturday 18 November 06 16:13 GMT (UK) »
Unfortunately when it comes to inheriting things it brings out the worst in people, I know from bitter personal experience but we wont go there.
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Re: What did you inherit from your ancestors?
« Reply #42 on: Saturday 18 November 06 17:49 GMT (UK) »
Absolutely!! I tell my brother all the time he can have everything if I can keep my mom.  :'(

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Sligo: Davey (also Mayo), McCluskey, McNulty
Wexford and Staffordshire: Hayes, McClean
Galway and Staffordshire: Scott
Coventry: Wells, Collins, Palmer, Moody, Beck, Mickelwright, Husbands
Ireland: McNulty (Sligo), Kealy, Murphy (Carlow) Connolly, Gillen, Powell, Ryan, Moore, Martin
Davis from I don't know where originally
Stahl, Russia to England to USA

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Re: What did you inherit from your ancestors?
« Reply #43 on: Sunday 19 November 06 10:37 GMT (UK) »
What a lovely thread this has been - I have been fascinated by the trinkets that all have inherited, especially the sampler, you are so lucky!  My mother gave me what she said was her grandmother's hymn book complete with the owner's name and date of 1850s.  As I started my research I was to discover that the hymn book belonged to mum's grandmother's sister.  I would love to know how the book got into our possesion, did gg Aunt Elizabeth give it to her sister? and how come gg grandmother passed it down to my grandmother when she had 7 children to choose from?  Questions I'll never know the answer to, but every piece has a thousand queries surrounding it!

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Re: What did you inherit from your ancestors?
« Reply #44 on: Sunday 19 November 06 11:41 GMT (UK) »
This was my Grandfathers .. as a child, I always thought it was Long John Silver, for some reason !  Someone told me it was a baccy jar ... but you couldn't have fitted a lid, so I have no idea what it was for originally ... I keep pens in his head ! 

It's ugly, of no value, but I love it !
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