There are 3 folk in my tree I would like to meet.
The first is the Lady here in my photo. Caroline Matilda Ingram (g aunt). She was born in France 1835 and didn't marry until she was 50 but when she died she was buried as a spinster and in her maiden name. She waited to marry until her parents died which suggests the marriage would not have been approved of.
Secondly is my g grandmother Caroline Berenger Ingram (nee Bigg/Cooper) family tales told us she was the hard done to daughter of a wealthy merchant who left his fortune to her step mother when infact after years and years of searching for we have found she was illegitimate and the man we thought was her father was her step father and her step mither was her natural mother. She died aged 41 after her 8th child of puerpal fever, she had such a hard life but I would give her such a telling of the merry dance she has given Prue M and I over the years trying to find her
And lastly my grandad Alexander Fredrick Ingram b. 1884, he died just before I was born, I was due to be born on his birthday and he was so excited about it . He was a chirpy cockney chappy, deaf as a post in his latter years, who sailed the world on the ocean liners and would have had so much to tell me about this tree. (thats my grandad at the front with the tash!!)
Cal (aka Caroline)
