Comments about our ancestors!

[fallingonabruise]

not an ancestor but my son, but i shall pass it on to his children if he has any 
from his school report aged 14

A***** is the most interesting student in the whole of year 8, A***** is clearly very intelligent, at times genius,
However at other times A***** reaches the lowest depths of stupidity.
 

[Lydart]

Salisbury and Winchester Journal, 1825:-

"On Tuesday the 12th inst. died in her 67th year, after one day's illness, Mrs. Jane Trowbridge, wife of Mr. John Trowbridge, of Donhead St.Mary, in this county; she lived respected and died regretted."

What a lovely comment !

[akanex2]

From my gt gt gt gt grandfather's obituary in 1835:-

".. a lineal descendant of one of the most ancient and respectable families of the county, highly esteemed while living, an exemplary religious character, and now greatly regretted."

I wonder where those genes disappeared to?

[Trillium62]

Taken from The Diary of a Country Parson, 1758-1802 by James Woodforde about my great-great-great-great aunt in 1791:
 
Feb. 22, TUESDAY … A Mary Noller of Felthorpe about 25. Years of Age and who lived with Major Lloyd one Year at Michaelmas last, came to offer here.  She has a Mother and 7. or 8. Brothers and Sisters.  I did not agree with her, but if I did take her I would let her know in a Week, if she did hear from me, then I should not take her – I did not like her Appearance being of a bold Masculine Cast – Neither her home or Family. …
 
The poor dear.  She was the oldest of eight children when her father died and she was helping to support the family. 

[Sloe Gin]

The clergy don't always come across as very Christian, do they. 

[angelfish58]

My 3xgreat grandfathers brother died after being whacked on the head by a poacher and was described thus " The deceased bore an excellent character and was, generally speaking, a quiet inoffensive man"
It's the "generally speaking" that intrigues me, I really would like to know what he was like un-generally