Found out some bad things about Hubby's ancestors

[Ayashi]

My 4xgt Mark Brady got into an argument with a fellow shipmate and ended up smashing his skull with  a handspike, which was a very hefty piece of wood. Miraculously the victim survived but Mark spent 19 weeks in Newgate Prison before being tried at the Old Bailey. I found this to be extremely interesting! I can understand how more recent generations might be awkward though, ones that living people knew personally.

Like the person whose ancestor was murdered, I did want to know what happened to the victim and how his life changed after the incident but I've found no trace of him.

[Gen List Lass]

My distant relations don't come under the category of criminal (much) or violent but under "dirty rotters!"

Bankrupt, left UK and previously prosperous wife and nine children in poverty, debunked to USA(?), never heard of again.

Son advertised for Dad in USA newspapers, then left HIS wife for USA, married another woman there bigamously and sometimes swopped identities with a cousin who was also running from the same UK city who had ended up in Canada..... First (legal) wife died in Vancouver many years after he left her, had she followed his trail hoping to reunite, it was a long time before she gave in and called herself a widow!

At one time I thought it was the same person with two families as they both worked for the railways but no...they were two dirty rotters. There are probably at least two very respectable families in Canada and USA who are descended from this lot.

It's taken me years to unscramble these DR's so maybe the descendants will never get to the bottom of the mysteries.

Gen in NBL England

[stormtroop]

I do not know, I would keep an eye out if I were you, there is a saying about bad blood
you never know where and when it can surface in a family.............speaking from experience, I mean see the thread on themes.

[Marky66]

I wouldn't worry to much about what happend in the past, the future counts more than that. Just make sure sure your children and their chidren don't make the same mistakes in their lives.

I have 4 brothers and 3 sisters, 5 of them have spent time in prison  I however have never been arerested, simply because I saw the pain it caused my parents.

Even now some of my nephews have been in trouble with the police.

Eough said Lol

[Graham47]

If there is one consistency it's human nature, and I doubt that our ancestors shenanigans were no different to many of our own or those that will follow as we fade into the past. It just is.