If it was possible to visit one ancestor tomorrow - would it be an easy choice?

[Kiltpin]

I would find the choice impossible. All my mother's side were born, lived and died in British India. As some of you might know their records fall somewhere between scant and non-existent. From my grandfather back, each and every ancestor has a question mark hanging over them.

Regards

Chas

[coombs]

Regarding my Sarah, I found a George Coombs wedding in 1810 to Sarah Davy. I have the original PR which say they wed by licence. Not found the actual licence yet. She was a widow. This is the only possible marriage I have found. My Sarah was aged 60 (or thereabouts) when she died in Feb 1851. She would have been about 19 or 20 in 1810. She may have been a very young widow. Usually when I have seen marriage licences it says they were 21 or over.

[jaybelnz]

In a slightly different light, wouldn't it be interesting to observe the courting process between two ancestors - as a 'fly on the wall'? I think this would be extremely interesting. Although obviously many would have been pressured into marriage by parents etc, it'd be nice to see a true love story.

No long after my Dad died, I asked my Mum how she had met my Dad, she said "well, he had a little boot repair shop and I really fancied him, so when I was coming home from Guides on a Thursday night, if the light was on in the shop, I would knock on the window and then run for my life back home.  Then one night, I didn't run"!  💞💞

[MacGrigor]

What a lovely story!

[pinefamily]

My Mum came to work for my Dad as a housekeeper when his first wife left him with two young daughters. They married after a few years, and I came along a few more years later.
The one that makes me curious is my 3x great grandparents. I am fairly certain they met in Honiton, Devon, but married in Chichester, Sussex where she had moved with her brother. Talk about a long distance romance.

[Ayashi]

If you want long distance, my 2xgt grandmother, living in Launceston, Cornwall, got pregnant twice, once when the man was in Folkestone, Kent, and the second one when he was in Leeds, Yorkshire  I believe he was the father of the first one, jury is out on the second... and no, she didn't marry him 

[3sillydogs]

It would be a choice of 2 that I would really like to chat to.  My gtgrandfather and ask him about his life in Russia and his journey to England with his father and only one brother. 

Then my grandmother a chat I wish I could have had with her knowing what I have found out during the course of my family research.  I am sure it's not a chat she would like to have, thinking she had taken all her secrets with her.

[MKG]

An easy one for me - my great grandparents Sarah and Thomas (whose wedding portrait was so wonderfully treated in this very forum). However, there'd be a condition ... ... that all of the other ancestors I have questions for were also invited. There - not too unreasonable, I think 

[cristeen]

Such a hard choice, I have several who lead interesting lives, riots, bankruptcies, murders etc.
In terms of brick walls it would have to be my 3xG grandmother Eleanor (Ellen) Wilkinson. She had an illegitimate daughter in Ulverston workhouse 11th December 1854 & I would love to know the identity of the father. The only clue I have is a possible surname of Arkwright from one of my grandmother's sayings ("From the As came the Bs and from the Bs came the Cs", referring to Arkwright Butterfield & Clark surnames) He is the only gap I have in six generations from me