why would you want a black sheep?

[cocksie]

The ancestral black sheep put "some meat on the bones" cos there's more detail and info to find.
And the black sheep are mostly more grey than black - lived a life that didn't totally conform to, perhaps, the expected norms - perhaps due to circumstance, lust, love or desperate need.  Finding them makes me (who wonders whether I will be considered a black sheep herd member in 100 years) feel less black and more light grey. 
Cocksie

[a-l]

I'm the black sheep in my family and quite happy with it lol

[Graham47]

I'm the black sheep in my family and quite happy with it lol

So Baaa humbug eh? 

[a-l]

stormtroop you would have to be careful about the size of your broadsword incase it gets caught in your kilt!                           

[stormtroop]

Judge Jeffreys!!!, ooeerr  , that is nasty. I would not want to be descended from him, mind he is said to haunt a few places so all that judging and  scourging did not do him any good  .

I think I have just found three deaths in my family which seem to be in quick succession , all within a few months of each other, I think I have the right ones  but I will have to see. all three are members on one family Father and two young people , Father dies in later 1893 and children follow in 1894 one from the other. Now understand that there was 4 waves of a Russian flu pandemic from 1899 to 1900.  Some people like black sheep, my interests are the  peoples occupations but especially what they died of, so I am exited by this one!. Morbid, I know , but I have a living relative who has a , well shall we say a " soft spot" for the Black Death"      .

One of my relatives worked in a 19th century Asylum, for four years, one of the largest in his country. I may not have black sheep as such but some interesting deaths and occupations  .

And I agree, this IS a most fascinating thread!!!

[a-l]

Are you saying you don't like me because I'm a black sheep? chuckles.

[Graham47]

stormtroop you would have to be careful about the size of your broadsword incase it gets caught in your kilt!                           

Not a problem for the Scots, it's far to cold! 

[a-l]

I didn't think about that Graham !

[Graham47]

I didn't think about that Graham !