Which ancestor would you most like to meet?

[netgrrl79]

Ernest's mother......'cos she's the only one who knows who his father is!!!!

Ditto! lol different Ernests tho'!

[Charles IX]

Mine would be Morgan my greatx7 grandfather I would ask him who his parents are and where he came from, and Id tell him to stop using the patronymics system because it just makes my life so much harder!

Charles

[marcie dean]

I would like to speak to my grgrandparents John and Marjory, as his real parentage died with him, so that I can find out who they were and what really happened.

marcie

[karenlee]

Ernest's mother......'cos she's the only one who knows who his father is!!!!

Hmmmmm...are you sure about that Barbara??

Karenlee

[Sunnydays]

I would like to meet the one I cant find!!!!!!! my maternal grandmother who put her daughter my dear Mum into Holy Mount in Tottington.


Merry Christmas all
Sunnydays

[little meg]

Does it have to be only one 

Ah well, if that is the choice I will go with Joseph Simpson, twin brother to my 2X gr grandmother.  He had an interesting life here in Oz and I think he would be able to tell me all about the other siblings and about his travels to Oz (3 trips counted so far)
He could also tell me if he really did set fire to John Taylors Hay shed and was it a lucky break that he got off scott free.

Margaret

[DudleyWinchurch]

If only one, mine would have to be my Greatgrandmother Margaret who came from Mayo to Bilston towards the end of the famine years.  She married very young but their marriage lasted sixty years and they and had at least ten children.  She died the year before my father was born.

I'd have so many questions to ask and hope that I could understand the answers as they spoke Gaelic at home.

First, I know nothing of her own family other than the name, so would have lots of questions to ask about them.  Then what happened to her first daughter as she seems to have lost about three years somewhere in growing up.  Where were the first two children in 1861? and what happened to her first son later?  Did he go to America and if so, where?  Were their neighbours of the same family name siblings of her husband? ... and the others nearby too?   Did either of them leave family back in Ireland and if so, what became of them?

[marcie dean]

If you could have more than one, say all of them and forget the difference in time dimensions, would that not be a great Christmas party?!!
I would be hoarse with all the questions and talking.  You would learn so much, understand so much more than a history book can offer.

Just think about it,  absolutely fantastic mind boggling

marjorie

[Rossdal3]

I would love to speak to my Gt Gt Grandmother, Hannah Austin to ask her who her daughter Mary Ann's father was.  She had 2 illegitimate children and I would like to ask her if they were full or half siblings.  Her son was named John Edward (known as Edward), she was listed as "former servant" in the 1861 census, the year she was pregnant with Mary Ann, so was there any connection to John Edward Brook who was the tenant of St Ann's Mill, in Kirkstall.

I would also ask her what led to her death from "Hepotic dropsy and coma" in 1871, which going from the medical dictionary could possibly have been alchohol related.

Do you think she'd tell me?  My Dad says, I'd just get a clip over the ear.

Cheers,
Jill