An ancestor's moment you'd like to have witnessed?

[carol8353]

I would love to have attended the wedding of my great grandparents in 1914.
21 years after the birth of the first of their 10 children and 2 years after the birth of the last one.

And ask them,why did they wait so long to get married?

I wonder if all the kids(young adults) went ............was my gran(then aged 14) a bridesmaid?

Carol

[carol8353]

So...any family moments you'd like to have witnessed? No honeymoons

Cheers,
China

I bet there's a lot of us who would love to have been a fly on the wall at the conception of an ancestor to find out who the dad really was 

I was going to say been at the birth of........but that still wouldn't solve our mystery would it?

LOL

Carol

[BumbleB]

I would have loved to have been at St Peter's Church in Leeds on 10 April 1861 because then I could have verified for myself whether the bride might have given birth on the same day!!  The daughter's birth date is registered as 10 April 1861 but in Tadcaster.     OK not a million miles apart, but to get married and give birth on the same day 

I'd also like to have been in Thaba Nchu, in the Free State, on the day when Reverend James Archbell arrived, accompanied by 15,000 Baralong led by Chief Moroka, in 1833.  What a sight that must have been.

BumbleB

[mrs.tenacious]

My great-grandfather was a real scoundrel. Married the sweetest girl, his behaviour necessitated her sending their eldest daughter to live with an aunt for a while.  Possibly (to be confirmed) an army deserter. Drank away the art college scholarship fees of his youngest son (who disowned his father and joined the army at 16). Abandoned his lovely wife for an (alleged) incestuous affair with his own sister, they both fell down the stairs in a drunken stupor, she fractured her skull and died. Allowed his eldest daughter to nurse him in his final weeks, or possibly more, when dying from lung cancer.

So I'd like to have been at his deathbed. Just to ask him whether he had any regrets?

Mrs. T.

[Pebbles Kernow]

As someone said before, so many times to chose from.

Do I pick the time the police arrived to arrest my cousins father and discovered 4 separate passports all with different names hidden in the wardrobe? (might have given my cousin a clue to who her father really was)

Or nan explaining to her husband how she was pregnant to another man yet again, and it was a different man to the first time it happened! (that the family know of  - there could have been more)

Or futher back and the standard just who on earth were your parents really?

Pebs

[Patricia jackson]

  I would have to agree with Nick - to witness the birth of brick wall ancestors would be very good.

[Viktoria]

My grandad was in Culcheth Military Band also known as  "The Tall Hat Band" from the second uniform they wore.
He was also Bandmaster of St.Catherine`s Church band Collyhurst.( In the late 1800`s)
Somewhere along the way he won a silver flute, and I would so liked to have heard him play it.
I would also have liked to have been in the cinema when my grandma( the above g/dad`s wife)was asked to leave because she got completely carried away(silent movies) and was shouting to the heroine not to trust the villain who was intent on having his evil way with her. She`d kicked her shoes off (bunions!)and could not find them. The family legend---- you know one of those leg ends---
has it she walked home wearing two ice cream tubs. I think that was added on for we kids,it creased us up everytime. Sadly she had died before I was born.
                                                                                                  Viktoria.

[Jill on the A272]

Had I been there when she fainted I could have stopped my 3x great grandmother falling into the fire & burning to death.

[JustLooking]

Well, it may sound daft, but I'd have love to have been there when my granddad was conceived*. He's the only illegit in my direct line so far and I've lost a whole line. 58 years I've been searching 

* Not necessarily to witness the event but just to find out who his Dad was