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I mean someone who lived long before you, I remember as a child older family members talking about this person and as she wasn’t that closely related to me and no longer alive I never thought about it. Last year I came across her and remembered the things that was said about her in hushed conversations and my oh my what a colourful character she was, I have found all sorts of information about her and I am total addicted to researching her.

I have a gt.gt. aunt, who I was determined to find. She was the eldest girl of a largish family, and the mother died relatively young. I hoped that she had had some sort of a life, and family of her own. After the mother died, father moved in her sister, though no' marriage' was ever found. Recently had contact with the husband of the grandaughter, of the child of the second marriage. Hope that makes sense. He said, one of the old aunts had always said the gt.gt aunt never married. Not to be put of, I digged a little further, and had contact with a grandson of the sister of the said gt.gt. aunt.
Gt.gt. aunt had sailed to Singapore when she was about 48yrs, and married a sea captain. Alas, after the fall of Singapore, she was offered a safe passage to Australia, only for the ship to be sunk by the Japanese Navy. I have not as yet , been able to find her on any records, but she did achieve some happiness in her life. None of this has been passed down through my Gt. Grandad, her brother, and what few of us that are left in the family, are oblivious to the fact he had any other siblings.
Julia in Derbyshire

Awwww how sad do you know the name of the ship at all ? You see this where I get side tracked..lol

Hiya

Couldn't understand any conversations with my elders on my Mums side as they spoke Romany..........But on knowing certains things now i wish my Nan was still alive lol

Romany Julie really how interesting did your mother never teach it you?

Why aren't you at the meet?

OMD's.....we would never have been taught as then we would of known what was being said lol

What a shame you cant carry it on, you know what I mean....

Hello Hayley,

One of my favorite people is a G.G.Aunt. Her name was Amanda and that is why my Mum named me so. This Amanda never married but she was going to ( I have her wedding dress in pieces in my wardrobe ) her young man tragically drowned whilst helping with a Lifeboat call ( so the story goes ).
Amanda was a Ladies maid and got up to all sorts of tricks. Apparently she once split a pair of some Queens gloves that where in a glass cabinet in a posh house.
Also she had a crystal ball and was often called upon to read Ladies fortunes , my Mum was supposed to inherit the ball but her parents wouldn't let her have it as they said she was to " highly strung ".
When Amanda died she was put in a paupers grave ( with 11 other poor folk ) we found the spot 22 years ago and paid our respects.
I think her family had her down as a loony..........but I love her all the more for that : )
Amanda x

Yes, my great great grandma Jane Brogden. Would absolutely adore to be able to go back & meet her.

Can you do that with the new Gold Membership, does anyone know? lol

Maria xxxx

Sorry Haley, sadley I do not have the name of the ship, and only recently came upon this information. She married a Mr. Leighton, no initial, so I have been unable to locate them in Singapore deapite having their address. There was also another sister and her husband, who ended up in Penang,and despite finding the husband was in the Freemasons in the 1920's, and having their address also, have not been able to find anything about them. They were young enough to have had children. So who knows, I might have some family out there
Julia in Derbyshire

Not one person but one line.

My Baxters are my family tree obsession......and having recently seen pics of some of them ........even more so now.......

I can see EXACTLY where my eldest daughter and my Dad got their looks from

I go onto other lines but I always return back to the Baxters in the end xx

Muffy - I have a picture of this gt.gt. aunt, given to me last year. I looked at it, as you do, and thought, yes, my gran looks just like you. A few days later, my youngest daughter, on visiting, put up a little photo of herself on my clipboard. A few days after that I looked at it, and was nearly physically sick.The resemblance was so uncanny. I'd always wondered who my daughter looked like, although she is very dark like myself. But this was so unreal. Sent a copy of both to a distant relly, and he couldn't believe it either.
Julia in Derbyshire

Amanda I am buliding up a picture of Aunt Amanda as I read that..lol but for some reason our Kitty keeps appearing..lol I love Aunt Amanda please keep me updated on any more stories..lol

Muffy I am like that always drawn to one line..lol

Maria .....my mum thinks I am contacting the dead doing this...lol

Mine is Caroline Mathilda, my gt gt Grandmother... or Grandmamma as she was referred to (it was written on the back of a photo) But... I have a love/hate relationship with her.

It was because of her that my gt grandparents *cast out* my gran when she married my grandfather. My gran was wonderful, died when I was 12, and I miss her so much, still. All of the others were started of with businesses, even the girls... they had haberdashery shops and similar, the boys had all sorts, including an abbatoir!! But not my gran, and she suffered dreadfully from her husband as a result... they were right, of course, my grandfather was an alcoholic and very abusive towards her. I never knew him, but he was a master carpenter, and worked on one of the family houses, that is how she met him. But my gran was ostracised from the family as a result.... although her one brother took her meat from the abbatoir every week it was always offal, never a joint, and her other brother took coal to her twice during the war years. I remember her telling me that, with genuine gratitude!

However, Caroline at age 16 is my double... I have a photo taken at the same age, and that intrigues me. She worked in the tin mines for a while... in spite of coming from a well-to-do family!! She was the power in the family, a real matriarch. I really wonder what motivated her.... her grave is very tatty and the headstone worn and in need of repair.... but I can't bring myself to help with the cost of cleaning and repairing it with her other gt gt granddaughters, lol Well, not until I find out why she was so horrid to my Gran, who was sweet and very gentle.

When I get my Geneology obsessive head back on, I'll go back to her!!

Love

Daff xxxx

She sounds abit controlling dosent she..lol Daff..

The favourite former occupant of my house was SIr Marmaduke Featherstonehaugh (pronounced Fanshaw). He was a 14th C knight who, single handed, slew the fearsome worm (norse wyrm - dragon) of Grundle Mire (related closely, it is believed, to the famous Lamborn Worm). It was rumoured that he took the fortune in gold and silver that this worm was guarding and hid it in the fields around the house here, bits of which I keep finding when I'm catching moles or digging out my ferrets.

His ghost stalks the draughty corridors to this day, eerily crying out for his favourite horse, Dobbin. Yes, he was some boy.

Not a bit like me then ay???? *flutters eyelashes frantically*

Yep, she certainly sounds like a control freak... so is my dad!! And all 5 of us daughters have inherited the teensiest weensiest element of control freakishness, lolol You'd barely notice it, honestly!!

pmsl

Love

Daff xxxx

My nanny and grand dad Gurr, we use to live with them,

Also my Great grand mother Mary Ann Parker. I never met her but would have love to go back and see what she was like.

I'm totally preoccupied and obsessed with a branch of my husband's family, at the moment. It seems to be full of dim and dark secrets, and I can't get to the bottom of them.

Daff you are no contol freak you far till chilled out..but she must of been a looker...so thats how she got a way with it....... hello TH, Meri I cant get inrested in his FT I have done bits .....but found them mainly by mistake and passed them on to my SIL.