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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 : ))

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

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

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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

I think its a brilliant tall tale Mel ...once of the best so far..lol

So she probably didn't hide in a tree then...............now that would be plain daft! LOL

lol Kitty mine in prison too Stafford gaol mainly x

The book is more a history account of their journey x

None of mine were in a book..................one was in prison and quite a few in the workhouse though:(

he wasnt in her bedroom Hayley lol *blushes* he was in her hall way

My info was passed down through the family however, I was informed a few years ago her story does indeed appear in a book called sons of the pioneers x

She does very interesting Mel I must admit ...I would be more than curious but I think who ever told you sounds very entertaining as well....

And why would spending 2 days in a hollowed out tree be better than a wagon train where there was food and water?

Now Mel I am not saying someone has been telling you tall stories.................but..........LOL:)))))

and what was a man 50yrs her senior doing in her bedroom?

When was this Mel?

wagon train...why doesnt that suprise me ???

I have one her family travelled to America as pioneers they went on a waggon train to cross the plain she found the journey very hard so one day she found an hollowed out tree she hid in it two days til the found her lol another story I heard bout her was that ever mornin she used to get out of bed backwards and walk to the bathroom she thought that by doing this one day she would meet a man ~ one day it worked she bumped into a man lol 50 years her senior {my type of gal} she later married him!

I had almost all local ancestors until I started a different line.............I have just discovered some in Manchester.

They were originally from Ireland

I think this family might be my favourite so far as they have actually moved about a bit:)))

I cant find anything about my ex husband side. Got his mother and father, But its his dad side that i cant find anything about.

Got alot on his mums, But i have given up on it now as not that intrested in it now, he isnt so why bother, I may get into it again if kids want to know more. By then hope fully it be easyer to find his lot

Hi all

Hazel

Yes Hayley........I have several photos of Aunt Amanda : ) she certainly has an odd twinkle in her eyes.........lol
I also have her locket ( which she is wearing in one of the photos circa 1890 ) Mum got the locket as she wasn't allowed the crystal ball........I'd LOVE to know where that ended up .

Amanda

I think all women are the stronger sex when it comes to family life we are the back bone...and before anyone says owt I dont mean all men are useless well..if they can iron they ar'nt or every women I know seems to be apart from one couple whom we met on our last jollies.....they were in there late 50's early 60's and the look of shock on her face when I dared to disagree with her OH and him I thought he was going to burst a blood vessel...lol

lol Hayley... you say the nicest things!! But I did tell you that you could barely notice, lolol....

Love

Daff xxxxx