"Living on own means" or "Independent" in census when you can't find out where the money came from;
1841 Census where born - not in County
From my great-aunt's memoirs, referring to a sticky problem I have been unable to resolve, ".....the family Bible dating back to Jacobean times …. had held the records of [great-great grandfather and great-great grandmother’s wedding and the births of their children; [she] in a rage tore them all out and burnt them...."
Good things, seeing comments in this thread of meeting relations, I have had a fantastic time with distant relations, including one where our common ancestor died as long ago as 1758. Only wish I could find more people on the lines I still haven't managed to explore..... And I've also blundered into all sorts of other people including one who was writing a biography of a distant cousin as her degree thesis in the University of Bogota!
Graham
As a footnote to the family Bible story, here is the character sketch of great-great-grandmother, from the same source: 'She was a wildly jealous woman and when her husband ordered his horse to be brought round at a given time, she’d order hers to be saddled and kept in the yard. He’d mount at the front door, she at the back and she’d ride after him keeping him in sight till his return home. She was so unpleasant a woman that my father never allowed my mother to meet her, “Apart, you are quite good friends, if you meet there will be endless trouble.”'
