Have you ever found someone and wondered about them??

[myluck!]

Following on from comments in "you know you are you addicted.." in particular Heitch's daughter who felt sad for people she didn't know and LizzieW's Dad's friend John.

This is my adopted boy:
When the Air India Flight 182 crashed off Cork in 1985 all the passengers died. 198 people were lost at sea and 131 bodies were recovered.  There is a memorial in Cork at Sheep's Head Peninsula for all those lost. There is just one person from the crash buried in Dublin. In Hindu tradition babies are not cremated and this one little 15-month old boy was buried in Glasnevin with an inscription Air India Child. I don't get to Glasnevin often but I still often think of this child - I found out his name - It is Ankur Seth. His parents and siblings also died in the crash. He is so far from both Canada and India, but he is not forgotten.

My grandfather always said that "if you pass a church go in and visit; so on the last day the Lord won't have to ask who is it!" Well I have extended that to remembering forgotten people I have found in graveyards.

Have you someone that is not related that you have found while family searching and keep in mind??

[sallysmum]

oh yes!  The man I thought might have been my 2x gt grandpops!  John died in the workhouse from dysentry (not a nice way to go - exhaustion).  His son died at 6 months (the boy I thought was my gt grandfather, thus disprooves a relationship) a few days after his mother died.  How sad for John, I don't know what happened in the years between these tragic events and his admittance into the workhouse, he must have had a very hard/sad life then to his ultimate demise.  Although not related, I still think of him with the hope that his memory didn't die with him

sallysmum

[LizzieW]

Here's what I wrote on the other topic.

Reminds me of my late father.  He would always look in churchyards, (as I do and did even as a child)  and if he saw a child's grave (as you can imagine there were many, especially in the old village churchyards), he would bow his head and say a prayer.  We lived near such a graveyard and he found a grave of a child called John.  We had no idea who this child was, but every time dad came to visit, he would go to the churchyard to see John, to say hello and say a prayer for him.

Lizzie

[dafpilot]

I know this is not quite the same as the previous post's, but when I was going through the family photo's I came across a picture postcard from my grandmother to my grandfather who was in the trenches in WW1, as she sat and posed for the camera with her two children, a lively, laughing, 2 year old and a babe in arms, you could see the look in her eyes, that this was maybe the last thing she would ever send to him, and that she would be alone to bring up two children on her own, the sadness in her eyes is haunting. thankfully though he did return, but that picture, every time moves me, and the note he wrote on the back, pleading that if he died on the field, that someone should return that picture to his children. well it stick's in the mind always..
        dafpilot

[willow2670]

Recently I have found in burial records babies belonging to my ancestors -
born and died between censuses, so I never knew they existed.   

I have know put them on the family tree with their parents -
where they belong.

Sue

[myluck!]

Willow I can relate to that too
I found a little boy between the 1901 and 1911 census
He was my son's great grand uncle and unwittingly they have the same name

[Finley 1]

I know the 1911 census shows that my gt.gt. grandparents had 8 children 5 of which survived... Nobody knew or mentions these poor sweet babies.. Now they hold a special place in my tree.. I have since found other either very early or still born babies unmentioned  .. So sad..

I have tried to find the records of the three babies but with very little to go on it is not easy..

xin

[Lal]

I always get a feeling that in some way, when I find a child who lived a very short life, I am 'recognising' them, recording that they had a life and brought their parents joy. I don't know if this is because I have a little boy myself and am being sentimental, but I do get a nice feeling that in some way, they are not forgotten once I have found them...

I often go off on a mad trail though, when I find someone interesting on my searches, I even looked up the whole tree going back of a woman who married my OH's great-greatgrandfather late in her life after all her children were grown, even though she has nothing to do with me - it was just so interesting to see how most of this family moved from the beautiful Yorkshire Dales to East Lancashire, and how those who stayed managed to eke a living.

[danuslave]

Lal

I think this sums up the difference between a Family Historian and a Genealogist   

Linda