Your Blacksheep-Do they amuse you?

[jacquelineve]

 
 My g.gran and her twin brother were constantly in court during the 1880's, and I must admit that

I have to chuckle each time I read about them,but,I doubt if I would find it so amusing if it were

a close family member carrying on like that today.

Jackie

[Milliepede]

I only have white sheep 

[RJ_Paton]

 My g.gran and her twin brother were constantly in court during the 1880's, and I must admit that

I have to chuckle each time I read about them,but,I doubt if I would find it so amusing if it were

a close family member carrying on like that today.

Jackie

Time does tend to put a gloss on these things but the good thing about "black sheep" is that they tend to get into far more different records and sometimes help to breakdown brickwalls

[giggsycat]

"I only have white sheep" 

How long have you been colour blind Millie? 

[jacquelineve]

  Well my g.gran was all colours!!

According to one report,after resisting arrest and assaulting police..said she was" as black as liver

all over" and " my arms are like a pickled cabbage"

Jackie

[Ellenmai]

As Falkyrn has said finding your Black Sheep records can lead to some very interesting information. My Great Grandfather regularly appeared at the local magistrates court, so much so I have now compiled a rogues gallery for him. The records have given me vital information for places he lived and worked plus family members names. 

[philipsearching]

"I only have white sheep" 

How long have you been colour blind Millie? 

Millie - you are missing out on so much fun!    Naughty ancestors make my day (to be fair, so does finding an ancestor who led a decent industrious life)

[Ellenmai]

It's amazing how the Newspaper reporters embellished a good old drunken punch up. One title they used in 1903 was 'Worshippers at The Shrine of Bacchus' Some of the fines and costs were exorbitant and I wonder where Great Grandpa William found the money when he had a wife and seven children to keep.

[jbml]

I only have white sheep 

No black sheep in my family, either, but for a rather different reason I fear. When they come to sort the sheep from the goats ... we're all goats!