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Re: Favourite ancestor.
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 02 November 11 07:38 GMT (UK) »
I love my 4x great grandmother. An unmarried mother of 6 children. I would love to go back in time and ask her how she managed to bring them all up and how proud she must have been that they all prospered.

Gadsby's, Farmers, Neals - Leicestershire
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Re: Favourite ancestor.
« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 02 November 11 08:29 GMT (UK) »
And my favourite brickwall and confirmed convict 3gg Eleanor/Ellen Leonard/Lennard.  Sacked by her boss in London so she stole some silk (and not just a handkerchief!) from him, convicted age 16 at the Old Bailery, put on a boat for transport 2 weeks later.  Arrived in Sydney 1829, seems to hook up with an irish born british soldier, 2 children before getting around to marriage followed by 5 more.  Living in rural NSW town(s), following her husband's postings with at least 6 living children and a husband appears to like a good time .... then dies suddenly when my 2gg was only 5.  I know what she looks like from her convict records so she is quite real to me.
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Re: Favourite ancestor.
« Reply #11 on: Monday 07 November 11 08:28 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: tedscout on Wednesday 02 November 11 07:38 GMT (UK)
I love my 4x great grandmother. An unmarried mother of 6 children. I would love to go back in time and ask her how she managed to bring them all up and how proud she must have been that they all prospered.



Hi,
If I was in your family,,,she would be my favourite too!!
How on earth did she cope????

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Re: Favourite ancestor.
« Reply #12 on: Monday 07 November 11 15:17 GMT (UK) »
My great grandmother, she started this obsession.
Born illegitimatly in Scotland, passed on to her grandparents and they raised her.
one child born there, again passed onto her grandparents and they raised her as their own.
 In Scotland in 1891
Married my gt grandfather in Nottinghamshire May 1892
gave birth to a son in Scotland July 1892- Her grandmother declares her husband is not the father.
Back in Nottinghamshire and giving birth in June 1893- hopefully this one was her husbands.
A further 6 children were born.
AREA, Nottinghamshire. Lincolnshire. Staffordshire. Leicestershire, Morayshire.
Paternal Line--An(t)(c)liff(e).Faulkner. Mayfield. Cant. Davison. Caunt. Trigg. Rawding. Buttery. Rayworth. Pepper. Otter. Whitworth. Gray. Calder. Laing.Wink. Wright. Jackson. Taylor.
Maternal Line--Linsey. Spicer. Corns. Judson. Greensmith. Steel. Woodford. Ellis. Wyan. Callis. Warriner. Rawlin. Merrin. Vale. Summerfield. Cartwright.
Husbands-Beckett. Heald. Pilkington. Arnold. Hall. Willows. Dring. Newcomb. Hawley

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Re: Favourite ancestor.
« Reply #13 on: Monday 07 November 11 23:33 GMT (UK) »
My great gandmother Elizabeth and my GG grandmother Hannah.One widowed at 24 with 4 children and one deserted with 5 children,one of whom she gave birth to in a poorhouse.Both kept their families together and remarried and had more kids.
Also my GG uncle Henry,mainly as I know so much about him.His army records from 20 years in Afghanistan,Egypt and India,his marriage to a nurse and finally a family life on the Isle of Wight.
SCOTLAND: Wardlaw Steen/Stein Tweedie McBride McEwan Pate/Peat Brown Somerville Bishop Farier/Ferrier Wood  Torrance Gibb Ross Dunlop Downs Richardson Ramsey Story Snaddon/Sneddon Auld Allan McLean McInnes Mason Law Lawson Kerr Cockburn Christie Ballingall Wardrope Weir Wallace Scott.
IRELAND: Welsh Clifford Lee Allingham Keane Dale Robinson Greer McVey Bingham Skelton Carson Broomfield Clark McEwan/McKeown McCreary McLaughlan.
YORKSHIRE: Cudworth Smith Cope Coulton Hainsworth

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Re: Favourite ancestor.
« Reply #14 on: Monday 26 December 11 15:35 GMT (UK) »
George Coombs is another on of my faves.
Researching:

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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