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Offline MarieC

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Re: Have you opened a Pandora's box?
« Reply #45 on: Wednesday 14 April 10 10:17 BST (UK) »

Imagine trying to find the GRO for Krypton  ;D

Or the DNA, even!!  ;D ;D

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

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Re: Have you opened a Pandora's box?
« Reply #46 on: Wednesday 14 April 10 10:28 BST (UK) »
A very interesting story yes. My 3xgreat grandfather was in prison twice but I quite like that fact.
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Re: Have you opened a Pandora's box?
« Reply #47 on: Wednesday 14 April 10 11:41 BST (UK) »

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.

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Re: Have you opened a Pandora's box?
« Reply #48 on: Wednesday 14 April 10 12:32 BST (UK) »
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  ;D
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Re: Have you opened a Pandora's box?
« Reply #49 on: Wednesday 14 April 10 12:48 BST (UK) »
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. ;D

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.

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Re: Have you opened a Pandora's box?
« Reply #50 on: Wednesday 14 April 10 14:05 BST (UK) »
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.
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Re: Have you opened a Pandora's box?
« Reply #51 on: Wednesday 14 April 10 14:15 BST (UK) »
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.

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Re: Have you opened a Pandora's box?
« Reply #52 on: Wednesday 14 April 10 14:56 BST (UK) »
Yes. I think that was the norm.  ;) ;)
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LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain

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Re: Have you opened a Pandora's box?
« Reply #53 on: Wednesday 14 April 10 15:01 BST (UK) »
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.