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Don't you think that when you learn more about your ancestors, even though you never met them. you often find there are similarities between you and them ?

For instance, I have a passion for fairness, and will follow something through, , if I think someone has been wronged, I'll fight on, even if they have lost interest in there own cause, I once walked out of a job I loved, because someone told me they were badly treated for a promotion, I agreed they were, said so and nothing changed, so I left, leaving the person, who was badly treated with a job :-0 But as I saw it, if they treated people like that I didn't want to work there, hubby said at the time, your bloomin' mad, he may be right, but I sleep well :-)

I've since found out, in the last couple of years, that 4x Great Grandad was member of the chartists, he was the General Secretary. He wasn't one of the big speakers, but was one who actually did something, I have found many wonderful words written about him, like this " Reports of his activities from the Northern Star show that throughout his ten years with the National Charter Association and other associated organisations, he was well liked and respected for his impartiality" He died a pauper in the workhouse, poor love :-(

I'm no dogooder, but would like to think I get my principles from 4x great Grandad & he is one of my favourite ancestors, we'd of got on well I reckon :-)

I (apparently) met my maternal grandpa who was born in 1886, but I was only a couple of weeks old so have no recollection of the grand event. He died soon after so I sadly never got to know hm. But how I wish I had, as he was apparently a kind and gentle man, soflty spoken, always chuckling.

I was going to say that my dad had before I remembered that I'd met my great gran who was born 1881. I don't really remember her though,

I may have met others but hadn't realised when they were born.

That's prob what made your hair go all curly :-D

Well I'm not sure because he used his sonic screwthingy to make me forget but I think so

Ahaaa, yes I know - News travels out here to us lot in the sticks you know :-D :-D



Errol - so you've met Dr Who then have you?

K, I saw Sue last Saturday week, in London, along with about 10 others from here, well mostly ex members now, had a good natter with Sue. Shame you're not meeting up in London Wednesday because I'm in London then, doing all sorts :-)

we will meet up one day :-D

Does meeting Dr Who count?

You're about right there, Lynda :-) many years ago people didn't really talk about themselves in the way they do now, and especially the older generation. I can imagine if I had asked questions I'd have been told by some adult or other not to be so cheeky as to be asking questions!!
Oh, grandma loved Selfridges by the way, so she'd always take us 'into town'. If Auntie Gladys was doing the lookin' after, we'd get a trip to Harlesden High Street!!!!

I'm not in the desert at the mo' (hubby went back last week as he's got to get back to work) but I'm staying on here to enjoy the English summer (?) and looking after my dear ol' mum. I'm meeting up with Sue on Wednesday for a bit of lunch and a natter :-) :-) :-)

K x

I'm fortunate that mam used to tell me stories about her family ,and my aunt ( her sister, I call my second mam ) is still as bright as a button at 92 can remember way back, Nan was born in 1880., I didn't know her but knew gramps born in 1884..I've said that above.

All my grandparents lived in the same village ( not born there tho ) my aunt was born in 1920,so she knows a lot of history about both set of grandparents and has come up with tales mam didn't tell me.:)

Mam's aunt married my dad's uncle, so they both had the same cousins.!

Looking forward to see what you find out Jill :-)

5 Generations is some achievement Maureen :-)

You still in the desert K, 'bout time they let you out :-) Your nan sounds a lovely nan, taking you to Selfridges and letting you play, while she slept. I used to ask loads of questions about family when I was little, but a lot of questions were never answered, now you'd ask why they didn't answer, then you didn't :-)

Looking forward to hearing the story Jill, I'm curious to know why her family would abandon her.

My (paternal) grandma was born in 1899 and I remember her very well, she would call me Duck and come out with some right old fashioned (to me) words and sayings. She lived in a big house and often had lodgers, and also had half the upstairs onverted to a flat which she rented out.
Grandma was quite strict and not what you'd call a warm cuddly type of gran, but that's the way she'd been brought up herself, her mother was terribly strict. And grandma did have a hard time of things as a young woman I have found out since doing the family tree, so, well, I understand better now why she was like she was.
But in her own way my grandma did spoil me and my brother and when we went to stay with her we never wanted for anything, and she'd always take us to Selfridges and let us browse and play around in the toy department for what seemed like the whole afternoon, while she sat in the ladies powder room/lounge to 'rest', where she read the paper and went to sleep! Sundays we had to go to church with her, no question about it, and I still have her prayer book and rosary beads.

AAaaarrrrrggghhhhh.....HOW I wish I'd asked more family history questions
:-|

I remember my great gran- born1857. Also her brother-in-law,my gt gt uncle also born in 1857. Both were in their 90s when they died. Her mother, my gt gt gran, born 1832 lived to be 100 - my sister made the 5th generation living in 1932.

Hi Lynda,
That is what I hope to do. Too late to tell Hilda but maybe some sort of gift to her from me. She was a fascinating lady, totally without bitterness, but I believed her when she said she had no idea why her family left her. I know that she did something during WW2 where she suffered some sort of injury but she never told me what. She wasn't mysterious about so much as vague, suggesting she couldn't remember. Apart from telling me about what her family had done, I never remember her talking about anything other than the here and now or the future.

Off now to see what I can find out about her.

xJ

When paternal nan died, dad had the deeds to the both properties she owned , and they were interesting reading . I had the one's to nan's big house cos I was willed a 3rd of it after my aunt had died.
When my aunt died she was survived by uncle.... problem person, nan didn't want him to have the house. Sis and I decided to let him live out his days there.He tried to electrocute himself once,so I decided to insure the house myself , I was able to, being a 3rd owner.
When dad died I had the deeds to his house, willed to sis and myself, if you could manage to read and understand the wording ,they were fascinating. both houses being so old.
Shame it's all computerised now.

It's really interesting reading your memories, just shows that when you are gone, you're still remembered :-)

Jill, now you have found Hilda, I wonder if you will find where her family went to?

And I have just found her. I'm out now for the rest of the day so I'll start tomorrow. Thank you for making me remember her.xJ

Death Record
Name Hilda Cohen
Year of Registration 1992
Month of Registration September
Registration District Birmingham
Registration County Warwickshire
Date of Birth 10 August 1890
Volume Number 32
Volume Page 770

Aound 1990 I sometimes looked after a lady who was 100 years old. Actually her story was really sad. She never married, I suppose she was of an age where WW1 took a lot of the menfolk but she did tell me a little about her family. She remembered her parents and I think she had a brother or probably a sister. For whatever reason - she thinks she was ill - she was sent away to something like a hospital. On her release aged about 14, she returned home to find that her whole family had left without telling anyone where they were going. She never saw them again and never knew what happened to them. All her life, she never knew why she had been sent away in the first place or why they had abandoned her. She was a lovely lady; very sharp mentally even at 100. I wonder if I could find out more about her using GR. Perhaps I could do her a mini-tree. She died aged about 102. I guess that will make looking at the death indexes on here easier.

My maternal grandparents were born in 1884 and 1886 and my paternal ones 1900 and 1904.

xJ

My nan born 1878 died 965 and grandad born 1896 died 1964. We use to live with them.

My OH great auntie born 1876 died 1980. We went to her 100th birthday party and got a photo of her with my son when he was 8mts old.

Hazelx

I remember when we were visiting my father's grandmother (my great grandmother born in 1854 in Glasgow) my sister and I were told to sit beside the fire in a small room. Then the door opened and my father came in with his grandmother a little lady with snowy white hair and a milk and roses complexion to talk to us. By way of introduction he told us that Grandma had come to N.Z. in a sailing ship around Cape Horn when she was a young girl.
This piece of news didn't impress us very much as we were hardly aware of what it implied. I was amazed that such an old lady could have once been a young girl and my sister and I were too young to have the presence of mind to ask her what that had been like.
I have since found out that the ship ran into a big storm rounding the horn , lost every stitch of sail, was on its beam ends once or twice and the passengers were battened down below decks for three days. She died at the age of 94, her mother died at 92 and as I have the same name as them I hope to outlive both of them.
My mother's parents were both born in Notts. in 1876 and 1877 and as they also emigrated to N.Z. in 1920 they talked continually about "home" and life when they were young as did my mother who had also been born in England..