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

[Seoras]

Come to think of it I would quite like to have been at the Battle of Kandahar with my GG uncle Henry.Well when I say I would like to have been there,I mean well behind the front line with a good pair of binoculars and a fast horse

George.

[marcie dean]

 I hope that no-one in my family reads this.  My nan was working as a servant in a house in Edinburgh.  The house locked its doors about 9.30pm.  My grandad was in the Scots Greys at the time, when they were courting. Of course she was late back and there were railings around part of the house, servants quarters etc.  My nan tried to get in, but could not, she managed to raise her friend indoors to help, but my grandad had to lift her up over these railings, and she became hooked up, her bloomers were caught on the railings, whilst she was holding on to the window ledge which was level to her head with her freind hanging out the window trying not to laugh.
Eventually she pulled herself off and her friend helped her in through the window, would have been the sack if caught.
marcie

[meles]

 

Ah - such great stories!

A friend of my mother's was the cook for a great family - Summer in London, Autumn in Scotland, shooting, The stories she told about the good and the great were priceless!

meles

[LizzieW]

I'm a bit surprised no one has jumped on this thread yet... perhaps there are too many moments to choose a single one.

In that vein, I will say that I would very much like to witness the births of any and all of my brickwall ancestors to ask their parents, "Just what the heck are your names and the names of your parents?"

Nick

That was my first thought too, Nick.  I'd like to have been present at the birth of my g.grandfather to see if his mother was really Spanish, was he actually born in Bethnal Green and is the name he was known as later in life his real name. 

[LizzieW]

I would like to have been there when my grandad got arrested for climbing onto the back of Prince Alberts statue (the man on the 'oss) whilst he was drunk if only to see how he got up there as he was only 5'

That made me laugh as when I first read it, I read that you grandfather was drunk and only 5 (as in age!).

[carol8353]

I would like to have been there when my grandad got arrested for climbing onto the back of Prince Alberts statue (the man on the 'oss) whilst he was drunk if only to see how he got up there as he was only 5'

That made me laugh as when I first read it, I read that you grandfather was drunk and only 5 (as in age!).

Age 5 LOL

Nah this was ages ago.........no, if it had been at the weekend just gone I might have believed a drunk 5 year old

Carol

[sarahsean]

Very interesting,

A simple one for me really i would have like to have spent time with my granddad (both sides) as i never knew either of them as they died before i was born. 

Sarah

[amber42]

I would have liked to be at the deathbed of my great-great-grandfather. He was poisoned! I would have liked to see the expression on the face of my great-great grandmother. Did she do it?

[marcie dean]

 In the same vein, Iwould have liked to be sitting in my grgrandfathers pocket when he met his real grandfather who would not acknowledge him after he was born, when he had not long married my grgran marjory.  At least then I would iknow who the b.....r was.

marcie