Genealogy Chat

Jess - you READ MY MIND !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG ! Nell ........... is this OK ElainePennellShawcross Well - it is pulled together !

read your Mind ?- i can see you've got your PJ's on!

No chance Jess - the heatings gone off and I ain't sitting here freezing ! Good job I didn't mistranscribe THAT word ! Elaine ;-)

jessbowbagbobbindog, flibber libber libber lob, Icckle wee'd ** scratches head and wonders what word she means? think i must have a stunted vocabulary

Bastardy bonds or custard creams? Elaine seriously, bastardy bonds were the forerunner of today's Child Support Agency, except more effective. When a poor misled girl/immoral slut got pregnant, the parish elders/noseyparker busybodies would try to find out the name of the father to get him to accept his parental responsibilities/shove the maintenance of his brat onto him to avoid incurring parish expenditure/being seen to support filth and vice. Apparently the midwife would sometimes be recruited to ask the poor girl in between contractions 'Who've you had it away with then?' Bastardy bonds would be drawn up with the amount payable and they are in county records offices - EXCEPT the ones relevant to my illegitimate gt grandmother, which haven't survived, so I have a blank space for one of my gt gt grandfathers which may never be filled:-( I know that in 1862 a woman in Gloucestershire received 1s. 6d a week, which the local police superintendant collected for her. nell

Jess You've got it wrong. It's flobberdubberdub! You haven't been smoking enough weeeeeeeeeeeeed. nell

jess bow bag go bed bow byes now night night you crazy crowd jess

So, IF I'm not the first slut in my entire family to have a child out of wedlock, then I have some means of prooving it (hopefully) :D Well, thats put a smile on my otherwise well smacked face ! I'll do some digging then ! Cheers Nell - I thought you would know - in fact I think it was you that I first saw mention them some time back !! Which one's Bill and which one Ben then ??? Elainepennellshawcross :D

Nite bobby. x Was gonna go myself, but if we are seen going to bed together god knows what folks would say ! You go first ! Elaine ;-)

Time for beddybyboes! Bill is Bill and Ben is Ben. Simple, really. I think they are probably going to go for one of those civil partnership whatsits. I was always suspicious about Andy Pandy and Teddy getting into that hamper together too. Nightnight JessnElainenPhoenixnAnnnOldeCrone! nell

Nightynightypajarma'spajarma's ! Sleep tight and don't let the bed bugs bite ! Elaine ;-)

Hello all, hope Nell is feeling better today and has rememberd what she wanted to ask ;-)=) Note to Olde Crone Without appearing rude would you please return my echo as i had become very attached to it and did wonder who had taken it :-> You deserve a medal for your restraint last night!!!!!! Ann

Yaaaawwwwwnnnnnnnnnnnn! Is it time to get up yet?? ..................Oh, half past three in the AFTERNOON LOL!!! Spent half the night waking up over and over as usual, but normally I just go back to sleep.....last night I kept thinking about some nice little messages I would type on here in the morning.......and now I can't!!!! Ggrrrrrr.............................. Jess, I won't publish your PM......................................probably......................... Merry x!!

Afternoon all! Nope, still can't blinky remember. I should have made a note at the time, except that I would probably lose it. Merry You ARE naughty! If you want something to do, try and find my blinky Broad brothers!!!! nell

You have told me to look for them before, but I don't know who they are!!! Go on then.....the details please (bored stiff - two kids constantly shouting at each other - hubby has been volunteered as ringmaster, but his version of sorting them is shouting too!!) Luckily, I can still READ with ear plugs....... Merry

Merry I was joking - everyone's looked. I'm only interested because I don't know, they aren't direct line or anything. But anyway, in case someone else reads this and could do with a challenge GEORGE Broad b. 1856 in St Mawgan, Cornwall Birth ref: 1856 Mar St Columb 5c p.128 1861 Whitewater, St Mawgan with family 1871 indoor farm servant for Peter Cock 1881 age 25, gardener, at the Taff Vale Inn, Cowbridge, Glamorgan, Wales No trace after 1881. not mentioned in eldest sister Mary's estate which was divided equally amongst her surviving siblings. JAMES Broad born 1859 St Mawgan 1858 Sep St Columb 1861 Whitewater St Mawgan with family 1871 indoor servant of Stephen Vivian, St Mawgan, age 11 not found in censuses after this, but is mentioned as Jas. Broad, a legatee of his sister Mary's estate in 1925. St Mawgan is sometimes recorded as Mawgan or Mawgan in Pydar or St Mawgan in Pydar, and sometimes other members of the family put St Columb Major instead of Mawgan. Best of British! At least it will stop you killing your family. nell

Hi Nell Was your legatee given an address as well as a name? As they were living on the tip of England, was it possible that they went to Canada , or South America, or USA or South Africa or Australia or.... A large chunk of my Edwards family (from Devon) went to Canada in dribs and drabs from the 1870s onwards and thanks to the wonderful Ian, I've found another chunk in Australia.

Hallo Phoenix. Unfortunately Mary Broad died without leaving a Will, and what I have is a sheet of paper showing her assets and their equal division between her surviving siblings and my grandmother, daughter of Mary's dead sister Emma. No addresses, and only lists my grandmother as Mrs. G. Williams. I wouldn't know who she was if I didn't already know, if you see what I mean! I have wondered about James and George being sailors or emigrating, but have no family knowledge of this and no idea where to start really. They may have joined the army but again, where would I look. I've done a search on their names on Nat Archives and a2a without success. nell

The crystal ball needs a good clean............. Merry

I've only got one thing to say to you and its :-P