Don't always believe your relations!!

[JoJoBuggins]

Spent ages trying to find a marriage for my Dad's parents we were all beginning to wonder if they did ever marry.

According to an Aunt,

"I'm sure they did marry, they went away one time and came back saying they had got married." this was always her reply, even 30 years ago!!

Received Grandma and Grandads Wedding certificate today, and guess who was a Witness, the same Aunt who wasnt 100% sure that they ever married

Just made me laugh and they didnt go very far to get married, the Village Church

Jo

[Tati]

LOL, I love it 

[Galium]

True, you can't always believe what they tell you.  My aunt still insists that her father was a little boy when his father died, which isn't quite accurate:  he was twenty-two!

[JoJoBuggins]

Don't you just love them

I would love to show her the certificate, but sadly she died just before Christmas

I'm sure she's having a laugh about it, bless her

[Cybermouse]

As I posted to another member the other day.....................................

"Do you think they said these things deliberately just to drive us all nuts in the future?"

Seems your Aunt may have had the last laugh, LOL. Just priceless!

[JoJoBuggins]

   Must say, tickles me when I think about it

She was so adamant though

Sure there are plenty ancestors up there, having a real laugh at us all

It was only thanks to another Rootschatter that I found the marriage at all

Jo

[rancegal]

My auntie, writing about her parents and their families for me, mentioned her uncle who was killed in WW1 on the Somme. "He was only 18, but he had to go". Fortunately my mother, who was older, had told me more about him, and through my own research I already knew that a) he was a volunteer, and b) he was 26!
   Sometimes bits of half-heard tales make people jump to conclusions, putting 2 and 2 together to make 5, and that's how a family tale starts.

    Somebody on the beeb board had an ancestor who was 'killed by a sniper at Ypres'. EXCEPT........... his name was on the Thiepval memorial, which means, as most of you will know, that he was killed on the Somme. Different battlefield, different country. Goodness knows where the sniper came from!

[Quiller]

Hi all

I know exactly what you Rancegal, when I started doing my FH my mother told me about an Uncle of hers who had been shot and killed by a sniper in WW1, definately between 1914-18 Sure enough on checking, found a chap on memorial in France, right regiment, right age everything matched, sent for DC, wrong person     !!  I then spent a month searching for this chap on all Military sites everywhere. Yes you guessed it, finally find him (more by luck than judgement) He died in 1929, Cause of Death : Abcess on his a**se  !!
When confronted, all my mother could say was " Well that's what I was told "

Mothers, don't you just love 'em

Quiller

 

[behindthefrogs]

My family rumour was that there was money in the Culverhouse family but it didn't come our way.

This turned out to be anger about a widow who married again after her husband's death whose new husband eventually inherited the remains of her small inheritance

David