Re: Our Ancestors #5

[julianb]

Great pictures here - and stories too.  Fascinated by Tom's family's bagpipe-playing ancestor 

Here's a side by side job.  This is my great grandmother, Elizabeth Danns Luetchford nee Rose, and her children - on the left taken around 1905 a few years after her husband had died, and again in 1940 on the occasion of her 90th birthday.  Some of her children had aged well, and others not so!  My own grandmother is sitting in the centre on the left-hand picture, and sitting on the right on the right -hand one.

JULIAN

[LizzieW]

Paulatoo

Yes definitely my dad's eyes, dark and deep set now, although when I was younger a boyfriend, who was a farmer, said I had cow's eyes.  It was a compliment.

Liz

[stoney]

....you don't see many of these around today!

These are hubby's maternal grandparents - they were in ENSA in WW2, and also ran a music school in N.London.

(and their G-Grandson is carrying on the tradition, as a Rock musician ....!)

[aspin]

I have my late brothers accordion it is all mother of pearl am I right in saying it is a Horner make ,I used to have a little play on it but it is so heavy for me to hold now
Oh happy days

Elizabeth

[Dyingout]

This is a caricature of my 2nd cousin who's funeral was yesterday.
The church was totally jammed with people standing .
He was well thought of

Rest in Peace Fred

[LizzieW]

He looks quite a character!

Liz

[Dyingout]

Yes he was a farmer of repute and very handy with a gun too

[PaulaToo]

I knew a gamekeeper who was handy with a gun, when I was in the Highlands, Dyingout...but that's another story, and not for Ancestors. If I remember I'll put it in the Tearoom.

Was trawling through old memories Ancestor threads and found an unanswered question.
My Quest for the Caponhursts of Bucks.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,211814.90.html

At the time I had Alic. Allice...Alice Caponhurst safely married to John Grace but only the IGI's word as to where she came from.
I now have her father's will....well, I guess it's his will, because he leaves a heck of a lot to his 'son in law John Grace.'
So that  has legitimised Richard Caponhurst as father of Alic. IGI had it right.
But not only that...I have also the will of Rycharde Caponhurst...Richard's dad, which was drawn up in 1558.

I really don't expect to get any further than that!....but there are all those Capenhursts on the Wirral....
What ever, a picture of the church at Granborough where my Caponhursts were to brighten up the message.

[PaulaToo]

Not such a happy post.
Sent to the Mother in Law when the lovely man who should have been my Father in Law was lost during WW2