Genealogy Chat

That's no thing to say about the enumerators!

I wonder if we would meet two fat ladies?

Roger's probably used to scrubbing the decks, dusting the crow's nest etc... We could play bingo at our census night party - and then tell the enumerator that the numbers selected were in fact our ages!

Nearly beat it, got 3 families of 11, and one of 13. (family including Horatio Bradbury in 1841)

Well, no, not the best looking guy so can understand your confusion.

Victoria.....Please amend your post IMMEDIATELY!! We don't have any swearing on GR, you know.....Housew**k is a banned word....... I wonder if the brown envelope has reached Heather yet? I wonder what she will do with it? And Heather Positive Thinker - I didn't realise Glen was bending over...................... Merry

You must have naval connections Roger - nothing to do with nasty, menial houseworking tasks!! Victoria

Was he bending over at the time? Yes, I did take a large pot of Vaseline (not for Glen I hasten to add) for the camera lens. (And if you look closely - aargh - you can see that Glen is actually holding threads up above my head to lift the jowels)

Roger, that Red Duster must be a distant cousin to Yellow Duster...... Heather, you looked FANTASTIC.....good job about the soft focus lens though....... Doesn't Glen take of his tinsel when wearing a kilt? (thought I could see some of it in the photo? (Or was that NOT tinsel??) Merry

What's this Duster family you are all on about? I remember my parents talking about Red Duster - did he have left wing views or red hair? Or maybe it was short for Ethelred? After all, it would be a brave man who called a burly ship's mate Ethel !

What did you think of the see thru dress? I got that at a charity shop. Glen ran up the matching stole. (He was the little guy in the kilt holding my gold lame snatch bag for me)

Saw your photos on the front of the national papers this morning, Heather and Heather (one crying coz she won and the other coz she didn't)....... I have bubble-wrapped the duster-socks and they will be forewarded in an unmarked brown envelope.....You don't want the postie knowing you do housew**k. Maybe we could set up a housew**k museum and all send all of our housew**k kit along???. Mine is all in gleaming condition......unlike the house...... Merry

Nite guys. I hope you have a peaceful night. There are people on general who are having very sad times at the moment. Please remember them and if you do pray, pray for their peace. Nite. x

I think I will say my name is Bagwash instead of Burwash and occupation we own a laundry.Think of the fun we could have lol Gwen

Michael, Sorry, I forgot in all the excitement, I had to find a tissue cos I'm so overcome with it all. I would like to thank my g-g-grandparents for having so many children and having their relatives living with them on census day and just think, if ggg-grandma hadn't gone gallivanting with one of the children, the number of people in the household would have been higher. Heather

Merry, loved the thought of OC collecting the bits of wool from barbed wire - lol (can she really do Norman French or even Norman Wisdom french - does that involve falling over a lot when you get to a circumflex or circumcision?) Also LOVE the idea of the 2011 meet - we could all change our names, but not by deed poll, just before that date, couldnt we. And can someone collect the places and years of birth on a bit of scrap paper to hand the enumerator? And can we all be p***** as newts when we spell our names? Love it.

Was there a close up shot of me looking disappointed? But smiling bravely?

Aren't you supposed to thank your mum, your agent and the cat?

Oooh have I won? I'm so excited....I was about to enter my g-g-granparents' 75 grandchildren to the thread yesterday only to hear that Old Crone could top that record so I'm thrilled to win this prize today. On hearing the term broom cupboard, I was really hoping that the prize would be a witches broom to replace my old one which is getting a bit tatty but I'm delighted to receive a yellow duster, I'm sure it will be kept as good as new for many years to come. Many many thanks Heather ( hope the speech is ok)

Why don't we arrange a big spring cleaning party for census night 2011 (plenty of time to stockpile the dust in preparation), just to break the record for the biggest household, and leave researchers of 2112 scratching their heads as to exactly what all these completely unrelated people were doing in the same house?