Have you opened a Pandora's box?

[MarieC]

Imagine trying to find the GRO for Krypton 

Or the DNA, even!! 

Snaphappytoo, that's a lovely story.  I do hope that "David" will be back in touch with you some time!

MarieC

[coombs]

A very interesting story yes. My 3xgreat grandfather was in prison twice but I quite like that fact.

[sarahsean]

I haven`t opened a pandora`s box but i have confirmed family stories. As my sister and I are the last of our family it has been nice to discover family stories are true even if some have been sad. I have also become very proud of my ancestors for instance my son aged 9 is reading a book on the first world war and I have been able to tell him about his ancestors` involvement.  I am glad to be able to celebrate my family and make sure that they are not forgot by the next generation.

Sarah

[Zen rabbit]

I have two relatives on different family branches in the same prison at the same time. One of them was a warder. I wonder what he would have thought of the two families combining 

[LizzieW]

I've got the usual children born less than 9 months after marriage, the only one I didn't tell my mum about was her own mum who was 3 months pregnant when she married.

I've also had two ancestors in a mental hospital.  One I already knew about, mum told me about him years ago, and it was when I eventually managed to get hold of his admission notes, that I found under family details "Uncle died here", so that set me off looking for the other one.

I've got a couple of convicts, one was my 3 x g.grandmother who was sentenced to 6 months imprisonment with hard labour for receiving stolen goods (mainly food - lots of it, stolen from an employer) from her daughter (my 2 x g.aunt).  The 2 x g.aunt was transported to Van Diemans Island.

Then to turn things round, a couple of distant ancestors were Lord Mayors of London and another one founded St Pauls Cathedral School in London.

Lizzie

[coombs]

I think a woman who was courting a man found out she was pregnant told her lover and they then thought "We have to marry in that case" if she was pregnant.

[Erato]

I think a woman who was courting a man found out she was pregnant told her lover and they then thought "We have to marry in that case" if she was pregnant.

Really?

[coombs]

Yes. I think that was the norm. 

[greyingrey]

Well, I haven't been doing this all that long, so I think there's still a lot of Stuff waiting for me. Nothing tremendously earth shattering....people in prison in the nineteenth century for petty crime & someone I think was a brother of my ggg grandfather (though still have to prove the link) transported to Australia. I have found out that my father's family was German/Jewish.....better hasten to add that there's nothing wrong with that....I just wonder if he knew.....I had wondered about it because of surnames of distant relatives, so I imagine he must have at least suspected....sad for, that some reason, he didn't feel he could tell us.