Family rumours have they turned out to be true?

[kerryb]

Right, it's come back to me now, when I posted my earlier message I had two stories and I couldn't for the life of me remember what the second one was!!

Now I've remembered.  My gran always used to say that her uncles were a very unlucky bunch.  I have now found what she meant! 

Her grandfather James Harmer had 6 sons, 1 died as a baby, 1 died at the Somme a couple of months before the end of WW1 and 1 died a few months after he married when a cart he was driving ran away down a steep hill and threw him out. 

Kerry

[KathMc]

I think it could make for interesting reading.

I didn't even cover my husband's side: Supposedly his gr gr grandmother ran a brothel in the Ukraine. What a great story. I think the truth lies pretty close. It's been narrowed down to she supplied women to sailors.  She was supposedly also a witch. Hmmm!

[Thudnut]

My grandmother always claimed she was related (in some way I can no longer remember) to Captain Oates from the Scott Arctic Expedition.

Even a visit to Kew has failed to find anything that links his family to mine.

Thudders

[acceber]

Well supposidly two of my ancestors were hung for sheep rustling but have not been able to prove that yet, they were farmers but no sign of sheep rustling.

Althought that may have been back in the midst of time where internet records do not stretch!

acceber

[liverpool annie]

I think it could make for interesting reading.

I didn't even cover my husband's side: Supposedly his gr gr grandmother ran a brothel in the Ukraine. What a great story. I think the truth lies pretty close. It's been narrowed down to she supplied women to sailors.  She was supposedly also a witch. Hmmm!

Oooooooh Kath !

I love that one !!  were you able to follow up at all ??

Annie 

[Lydart]

Dee ... thanks for that ... good to hear he was involved in womens suffrage, as was my grandmother.  She even named my mother Millicent after Millicent Garret Fawcett, whom she admired so much !

[liverpool annie]

My grandmother always claimed she was related (in some way I can no longer remember) to Captain Oates from the Scott Arctic Expedition.

Even a visit to Kew has failed to find anything that links his family to mine.

Thudders

Here's a book Thudders that may give some answers !! 

Captain Oates : soldier and explorer by Sue Limb and P   ANF Biography and Family History

You never know !! 

[XPhile2868]

Theres not too many of these rumours in my family, although my great aunt thinks that her grandfather James Clitheroe Scowcroft was Scottish, even though his mother was from Suffolk and his father was half Irish and half Lancashire, and he was born in Preston.


Stephen

[KathMc]

I've been able to turn up that she provided herbal remedies for people and I think that's where the witch thing came into play. Providing women for sailors, makes for an interesting story, but I am not sure I can prove that.

There's also the Jewish gr grandmother who fell in love with the Polish aristocrat. He supposedly gave her jewels that she buried under a tree somewhere in Poland, because she couldn't let her father see them. Because they knew the family wouldn't understand, she ended up marrying a nice Jewish boy and they emigrated first to Belgium and then America.

And my father-in-law swears they were related to Al Schacht, the clown prince of baseball. If you were to see a picture of my father-in-law, his father, and Al, you would agree there was a relationship, but I am having a hard time finding that one.

Kath