Skeletons in the closet anyone?

[BrazilianBombshell]

Skeletons are great finds.  For a long while my lot seemed too good to be true, until.... I found HIM.  And his sons.  Very naughty.  Still reading through the newspapers of the time, and chancery cases.  Nothing bloody, but a toxic debt champion.  Took down a couple of lords and a bank.  Very complicated finances.  And there's also the case of the grandma who married abroad 4 years after her second husband disappeared... Still a mystery. 103 years later and I still do not know what happened to him. 

[fastfusion]

<<<<<No skeletons in the closet.....  too much other junk.....   

[Nanna52]

<<<<<No skeletons in the closet.....  too much other junk.....   

Is that why I haven't found a convict yet?     

[missmolly]

Husband hit his wife over the head with a lump hammer from which she died while she was in bed  He legged it over the fields to the next town and hung himself from a tree on farmland. Sad part was that a young child was left in the house alone

Mo

[anpefa1]

hi all

I have to be careful here but I have found a relative who I believe entered into a bigamous marriage therefore a person is not aware that his brother is in fact his half brother however as they are both still alive and in their late 60's/70's I am compelled to let sleeping dog's lie.

tony   

[Treetotal]

I have only got one drunk and disorderly in the market place fined 10 shillings and one fined 20 shillings for theft of fish from the dock.....oh and a couple of illegitimate babies.
Carol

[jaybelnz]

Right! Following on from my artist on page 2.

On my Maternal side I have an Early Settler to Otago NZ, William McAughtrie, born Barr Ayshire 1847. I became aware of him when I was given a family document way back in about 2002, when I first starting playing this genealogy game that we all love so much! This paper documented families BDM's and info re his family in the Village of Barr.

He was an Agricultural Labourer in Scotland, with an extensive farming family background, particularly in the village of Barr, where he came from to NZ.  Haven't quite found the exact time iof his arrival yet, but somewhere between 1861 and 1872!   Gold Rush Times. He went from being an Agricutural Labourer in Scotland to a Miner in Otago, then a sheep farmer, and many years further on find him on a list as being one of the top 10 Landholders of the area. WILLIAM is my 1st cousin,m4 removes!

So that's my exciting finds covered.  Now for the skeleton!

My paternal great grandmother, Jane Dunnill, (sister in Law of the Artist in my first post).
I found a remark somewhere out there that mentioned that Jane's family were not happy about her marriage. Married an Accountant Henry Mathews 1865 at what is now Sheffield Cathedral.

In the book re the artist that I purchased, "The Victorian Lady Artist", there was a mention of a letter from England that Ann PAULSON had received, that stated "the family was extremely distressed about Jane's Marriage to Henry Mathews" I couldn't understand why, until I read the next sentence of
the letter, "Jane ran away from home to marry Henry Mathews!!

So looks like my great grandmother eloped bless her!  I think I've figured out why the family didn't either, but that's another story!  Nothing bad, but I think Henry's father, at the time , was an Railways Agent, Coal and Freight Manager at Sheffield Railway Station, (a recent line into Sheffield) where the family also lived!

I believe that Jane's father Charles may have been losing business to to the railways, and that would have been a huge threat to him, as he had a coaching  and cartage business of his own! I'm sure it was not only the snobby thought of his daughter marrying someone who lived in a railway station, and may have been the real reason, but I guess I'll never know!  Anyway they went on to have a successful life, moved around the world a bit, had 10 kids on their travels, and did ok for themselves!

So that's my 2 success stories and my skeleton story done!  Now I want to go and read all the others!

Jeanne 😃

[candleflame]

We have a convicted male bigamist who then committed bigamy again - not caught- and then I found out this weekend courtesy of FindMyPast free weekend newspapers, that wife one tried to commit bigamy too ooo errrr

[DavidG02]

...Unfortunately in my tree there are black, blacker and blackest sheep... 

Unfortunately I think I'm the black sheep in my family. Fortunately I'm the one doing the research

Yes , my quote was going to be '' what apart from me''?

Convicts and am chasing down a story about wife desertion and bigamy. A sly grog merchant and bankruptcies as well.

No murderers as yet.