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Well watever happened I like her and her story and ~I believed it til now lol n will continue to do so x

Hayley this is a fab thread x

Our family stories have almost all turned out to be either very exaggerated or completely wrong:))))

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we had an interestin one bout a mad man who travelled up n down the country sellin his own stuff {cr*p} mainly ~ mad Will he was called ~ lol he is or was my brick wall turns out he really was mad he was a hatter send mad by inhaling too many fumes from the glue he used on his hats x

Family legend on my Mums side of the family is that someone helped Bonnie Prince Charles ( something to do with the whole boat escape to Skye etc ) and for this help the chap was given a Hall and a crest etc.
Oddly enough I have found tentative links to this but can't can't the missing one that hooks up my Chisnall folk to the main " hub " in Lancashire..............this " legend " was old by Aunt Amanda , who apparently had someone trace the family tree many years ago..........but it's not impossible that she was just a wee bit gullible..........lol........having said that I haven't given up hope in finding the missing link.

And I can play the Skye Boat Song on an Ocarina : ))

Well Amanda.................I think your ability to play that tune proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the family legend is true!! LOL

Mel.................I worry about you sometimes, I truly do:) *tuts mad hatter indeed*

That was my way of thinking too Kitty : ))

And if you like a man in a kilt.....................well there's no lingering doubt at all.

Put them all in you tree with a clear conscience:))) LOL

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I'd only like a man in a kilt if he had good strong legs.........couldn't be doing with spindly ones..........lol

Better wait until I find my missing link before throwing caution to the wind.

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*sighs* I know.............but we can all dream of solving that mystery can't we!! LOL

Good luck with it.

Hi Hayley, I don't yet know if any of my family were famous, although my maternal Grandma reputedely sang with the Carl Rosa opera company. What I do get a sense of though is all those poor women, having baby after baby,year after year, from being 17 through to their 40s.Well, they did in my family anyway. I havn't yet been looking long enough to know how many of the babies thrived, but if all my familie's did i'll be here forever finding living cousins. I really hope you solve your mystery, you're in the right place here, kind people are so helpful and tenatious helping you.Lots of love and good luck, Nina

You've just got me sitting here dreaming of men with good strong legs........lol

Best I busy myself looking for my missing link.

Hatting was the trade in my tree goes back 5 gens my Gt Grandfather died aged 29 of newmoania I know you dont spell it like that caused by the fumes off the stuff they used it had mercury in it and used to send them mad and thats where the saying comes f rom mad as a hatter.

My gosh, yes, Hayley, that's totally true.

Hello Nina welcome to chat....yes there are loads of helpful people on here I am always grateful for that. no mistery really just very ...ermm to put it this way I think eyebrows would be rised today...lol

I feel a silly question coming on, but will ask it anyway *sighs*

Is it right that hatters made hats for men i.e. bowler and top hats, and milliners made hats for women?

I ask because I have a female "maker of ladies hats" in my tree, which I think would be called a miliner.

yes that was it Hayley my lot were in Warwickshire ~ Atherstone lol hatters capital so it seems a pub well in every building but he travelled far n wide where he came from no-one knows lol!

I dont know the females that worked in the t'mills in my family were hat box makers it was only the men who were hatter journeymen I thought milleners sold hats ..

snap Hayley thats how it worked for me too x

See.................I knew it was a silly question! LOL

Oh well, off to google I go>>>>>>>>>>

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I got really excited once and thought I had a lawyer...............turned out to be a sawyer

And my highwayman was a journeyman..............must get new specs:((