What is the one family item you wish you had? - just for a bit of fun

[Treetotal]

Hi Ashleigh and welcome to Rootschat...Judy has been online today so you should get a response to your post....when you have made 3 posts you can send her a personal message.
 Carol

[healyjfch]

I would love to sit on Grand uncle's rocking chair.
On Sundays my mother would bring my sister & I to visit Grand uncle.
We would take turns to sit in the rocking chair.
There was no TV so the chair was our entertainment
It had a stand, so it was quite high and very heavy.
I never saw another one like it.

[Ashleigh Glover]

Thanks for your reply I hope they do reply as it is of great importance

[Treetotal]

Judy/Ankedine was on Roots this morning but may not have seen your message.... so if you reply to this post then you will have posted 3 times...then you can send her a PM ( personal message)...you do this by clicking onto the text icon beneath her avatar.
Carol

[Ashleigh Glover]

Okay then thanks for the tip

[ThrelfallYorky]

How lovely to see a conclusion possible like this, for the paintings, after so long.
I became intrigued, reading all these posts. We never had a family bible, on any line, as far as I know - but what I really would like (sorry, three things) is:
1) labels / notes on the jumble of photos I and another family member have been trying to sort through and identify for ages.
2) ANY photos from my other half's family history - M in L destroyed them ALL a few years before she died!!!!
3) My grandmother's long, long-lost necklace of alternate large graduated oval mother of pearl beads and small facetted black glass beads. I used to play with it when she was wearing it, as a child, it was her favourite, although not of great value  - and do you know, watching "Downton Abbey" some time back, there was the Dowager Duchess wearing one that looked EXACTLY the same??? I never found what happened to it, I know it was passed on to me with other things as only grandchild, but it seemed to get lost before I was old enough to wear it ... and I'd have loved wearing it.

[ankerdine]

I have PM'd Ashleigh to say I'd willingly hand over the paintings for her to give to her grandmother.
They've been in various family homes for 70/80 years and we've only just put them away in a cupboard. They are quite naive and the dark brown Bakerlite frames are a bit chipped but maybe they will bring some pleasure to the lady.

Personally, I would love to find a photograph of my own parents' wedding which took place at Christchurch, Lichfield on 6th December 1928. I remember seeing it once wrapped in brown paper at the bottom of a cupboard but maybe my mother hid it away when my father died in 1953.

Judy

[Treetotal]

Oh nice one Judy...I love it when people make contact with their relatives lives...I'm sure Ashleigh will have been delighted.
Carol

[pinefamily]

I stopped reading this thread at page 5, as my list of "one" items was getting bigger. 
My first thought was my grandfather's gold pocket watch he received from the South Australian Railways for service. No-one in the family knows, or is willing to admit knowing, what happened to it. If I couldn't have it, at least a nice photo of it would be enough.
Reading some of the posts then got me thinking. I'd given up on, and forgotten about, the family bible. Years ago, I held it in my hands. Now, it seems to have passed through several family members, and it has proved elusive. Once again, a photo or two would suffice. Especially of the handwritten page of birth and death dates.
Then I remembered the grandfather clock that belonged to my aunt and uncle. I was meant to have it, as well as several old tapestries depicting Middle Eastern scenes. But because they had no children of their own, and my aunt passed away first, the house and its belongings passed out of the family to my uncle's niece. These items were probably of no great value, but had all captured my imagination as a child.

Hard to split between the three.