Genealogy Chat

Hello again Linda, sorry for barging in on this thread a bit, but I love a good mystery and have enjoyed reading everyones family stories. I take it you jhave checked out all the William Grants on the CWGC site, theres quite a few especially with the Portsmouth and naval connections. This is proving to be a very interesting thread but I'm sorry to say I did laugh at the poor man who fell in a Vat of beer. Hubby says what a way to go!. Penny

One of my most interesting Ancestors is my Great Great Granfather. It starts of in India presumibly in the Army he married no record anywhere. Then he moved from here there and anywhere. and had loads of kids with the same woman. But I just cant put my finger on it but there was something odd. On my Granmothers birth certificate it says who her mother and father was no record for a marriage when she was born they were at the same address as my gg grandfather. but then later when my nan married on the wedding certificate the father was her Grandfather. My Nan would never talk of her father. but thought very highly of her grandfather and said that he was very rich and was meant to leave her with a lot, but there is no signs of any money as I can tell yet. something odd that I will find out one day. Debbie

Hello Penny, My Grandfather's name was William Grant. Born 1884/5 - listed as living in Portsmouth when he married in 1917. He married in East Sussex but there the trail freezes! Linda (East Sussex)

Hi Linda, just out of curiosity what was your grandfathers name? Penny

I don't have anyone in my tree who is that exciting! But I am dead keen to find out about my paternal Grandfather. Whenever he was mentioned in the family it was always in 'hushed' tones. He 'disappeared' years before I was born and no-one in the family knew where he went! So they said! Try as I might I can't find out anything about him - apart from a photograph that shows him in a Naval Uniform. Linda (East Sussex)

Probably, a gt-gt uncle of mine who lived until he was 95. I had an old newspaper cutting of him, stored away in an old family photo album. The article revealed that he had just renewed his driving licence, aged 94 and he gave his thoughts on motoring today (in 1979) compared with when he bought his first car. Having met up with a relative of mine for the first time during the summer, I learned that he had competed in the Isle of Man TT races during his younger days and there were photos of him racing on his motorbike. I felt that he had lived an interesting life and would have had many stories to tell.

My Uncle when he was a young lad drank from a teapot spout and took the lining of his tounge right off. Then when he was 11 fell off a ladder I think and lost an eye so he had to wear a false one a few years later his younger brother reached 11 and fell of a ladder and lost his eye the same one his brother had lost he also wears a false eye. And you never know if their talking to you because it dosnt look as though they are looking at you. Debbie

I have several interesting ones but one in particular made me cringe. A great aunt drank from a bottle when she was aged 7 and it turned out to be bleach. Gruesome or what! Mel

My great-grandfather had a pub and fell into a vat of beer he was brewing and was scalded to death. Sounds gruesome but is the most interesting fact I have unearthed so far.