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Kitty am I believing your living in hope your wanting to be related to Eldrick...?????

I have a worm in my tree I think ....*checks*...


Nearly ..........it's a Wormwood! Darn it, I thought I was going to be rich for a moment:(

Awww she was so thoughful ...have you got a photo of Aunt Amanda I adore her...

I see Eldrick the worm...hidden treasure.......do tell us more did he marry

I've got lot's of tales of Great Aunt Amanda . She used to send weird parcels to my Grandfather through the post . He was very much into Amateur Dramatics and she would send things that the Ladies had let her have ( ie jewelery made from black french glass etc ) and clothing such as velvet capes etc , these parcels would arrive roughly wrapped in newspaper and brown paper , held together with savage victorian hat pins!! Apparently my Nan would be heard grumberling " that mad old woman has sent him another blasted parcel "..........lol

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why aren't you at the meet?