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Offline suek2075

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Skeletons in the closet anyone?
« on: Thursday 12 March 15 19:17 GMT (UK) »
After years of ag labs, farmers, mill workers, steel workers and the odd soldier who all seem to have lived very conservative, steady lives (plus of course a few emigrants to different colonies) I still live in hope of finding someone who did something a bit different.. a lady explorer, reformer...or even a bit naughty... highwayman, transported convict, bigamist - I notice there are a few of those around the forum. One may turn up yet, maybe one of the names who is so far missing in action.

Anyone else unearthed the family black sheep, a hero or a skeleton in the closet?
Keddie, Hutson - Scottish Borders and Edinburgh
Menzies, Montague - Penicuik and Castle Douglas
McEvoy, Cavanagh - Ireland

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Re: Skeletons in the closet anyone?
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 12 March 15 19:41 GMT (UK) »
Here's a link to similar thread.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=120305.0

I don't think anyone doesn't have at least one skeleton in their closet/family tree.
Between my wife and myself, we have the whole range: convicts, murderers, reformers, a famous vet, and even a philosopher (Jeremy Bentham).
I am Australian, from all the lands I come (my ancestors, at least!)

Pine/Pyne, Dowdeswell, Kempster, Sando/Sandoe/Sandow, Nancarrow, Hounslow, Youatt, Richardson, Jarmyn, Oxlade, Coad, Kelsey, Crampton, Lindner, Pittaway, and too many others to name.
Devon, Dorset, Gloucs, Cornwall, Warwickshire, Bucks, Oxfordshire, Wilts, Germany, Sweden, and of course London, to name a few.

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Re: Skeletons in the closet anyone?
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 12 March 15 19:49 GMT (UK) »
Only my Great(x3) grandfather, Abner Lucas, who was convicted in 1820 of throwing rocks at a yeomanry patrol in Burslem, and got 2 years in jail. I wonder if it had something to do with the Peterloo Massacre?
Farrell  - Ayrshire
Cairns - Ayrshire
McCann - Ayrshire
Brown - Ayrshire
Petty - Yorkshire, Durham
Lucas - Staffordshire, Durham
Whitaker - Yorkshire
Thackrah - Yorkshire
Stephenson - Durham
Marshall - Yorkshire
Walker - Staffordshire, Southland New Zealand
McCullough -  Antrim, Southland New Zealand,
Cavanagh - Galway, Southland New Zealand
Anthony - Tipperary, Southland New Zealand
Bath - Cornwall, Tasmania, Southland
Brungot - Alesund, Norway; Southland
Bonthron - Fifeshire, Southland

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Re: Skeletons in the closet anyone?
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 12 March 15 20:19 GMT (UK) »
Would a body buried in the garden do instead of a skeleton in the cupboard? If so, then I have one of those.
Crackett, Cracket, Webb, Turner, Henderson, Murray, Carr, Stavers, Thornton, Oliver, Davis, Hall, Anderson, Atknin, Austin, Bainbridge, Beach, Bullman, Charlton, Chator, Corbett, Corsall, Coxon, Davis, Dinnin, Dow, Farside, Fitton, Garden, Geddes, Gowans, Harmsworth, Hedderweek, Heron, Hedley, Hunter, Ironside, Jameson, Johnson, Laidler, Leck, Mason, Miller, Milne, Nesbitt, Newton, Parkinson, Piery, Prudow, Reay, Reed, Read, Reid, Robinson, Ruddiman, Smith, Tait, Thompson, Watson, Wilson, Youn

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« Reply #4 on: Thursday 12 March 15 20:24 GMT (UK) »
The story goes that my wife's 3x great grandfather threatened to haunt the family if he wasn't buried in the paddock behind his tavern in rural South Australia. What lends more credence to the story is local farmers have never ploughed that paddock ever since apparently.
I am Australian, from all the lands I come (my ancestors, at least!)

Pine/Pyne, Dowdeswell, Kempster, Sando/Sandoe/Sandow, Nancarrow, Hounslow, Youatt, Richardson, Jarmyn, Oxlade, Coad, Kelsey, Crampton, Lindner, Pittaway, and too many others to name.
Devon, Dorset, Gloucs, Cornwall, Warwickshire, Bucks, Oxfordshire, Wilts, Germany, Sweden, and of course London, to name a few.

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Re: Skeletons in the closet anyone?
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 12 March 15 20:54 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Craclyn on Thursday 12 March 15 20:19 GMT (UK)
Would a body buried in the garden do instead of a skeleton in the cupboard? If so, then I have one of those.

Ooohh Craclyn, do tell us more!
Robbins - Wolverhampton.
Spooner - Monmouthshire & Wolverhampton.
Warner & Loundes - Dudley/West Bromwich.
Dod(g)son - Heysham/Liverpool/Wolverhampton

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Re: Skeletons in the closet anyone?
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 12 March 15 21:01 GMT (UK) »
Dozens! If I listed them all and included the illegitimacies it would be the longest posting in the History of Roots chat.Suicide, Transportation, Highway robbery, Marriages beyond the permitted limits of relationship (loads) Machine breakers, etc. etc.
Ayres Brignell Cornwell Harvey Shipp  Stimpson Stubbings (all Cambs) Baumber Baxter Burton Ethards Proctor Stanton (all Lincs) Luffman (all counties)

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« Reply #7 on: Thursday 12 March 15 21:11 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Jool on Thursday 12 March 15 20:54 GMT (UK)
Ooohh Craclyn, do tell us more!

A distant cousin that bashed his wife on the head with a crowbar, buried her in the garden and told the family she had run off with another man. After wondering why there was no contact for several months her brother got curious and started to investigate a bump in the garden....
At the trial hubby claimed self defence as she had been about to wallop him over the head with a poker.
The newspaper accounts made fascinating reading.
Crackett, Cracket, Webb, Turner, Henderson, Murray, Carr, Stavers, Thornton, Oliver, Davis, Hall, Anderson, Atknin, Austin, Bainbridge, Beach, Bullman, Charlton, Chator, Corbett, Corsall, Coxon, Davis, Dinnin, Dow, Farside, Fitton, Garden, Geddes, Gowans, Harmsworth, Hedderweek, Heron, Hedley, Hunter, Ironside, Jameson, Johnson, Laidler, Leck, Mason, Miller, Milne, Nesbitt, Newton, Parkinson, Piery, Prudow, Reay, Reed, Read, Reid, Robinson, Ruddiman, Smith, Tait, Thompson, Watson, Wilson, Youn

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Re: Skeletons in the closet anyone?
« Reply #8 on: Thursday 12 March 15 21:33 GMT (UK) »
Craclyn are you related to my cousin.  He has a similar story in Australia.  Other side of the family to the line that links us.
Unfortunately in my tree there are black, blacker and blackest sheep.  However I haven't found a convict yet.
James -Victoria, Australia originally from Keynsham, Somerset.
Janes - Keynsham and Bristol area.
Heale/Hale - Keynsham, Somerset
Vincent - Illogan/Redruth, Cornwall.  Moved to Sculcoates, Yorkshire; Grass Valley, California; Timaru, New Zealand and Victoria, Australia.
Williams somewhere in Wales - he kept moving
Ellis - Anglesey

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