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Ian

Ian Report 26 Oct 2008 08:11

CRAMMOND 1848 DUNDEE
GAHAN 1847 CORK
HURREY 1789 BRUNDISH
WATLEN 1851 WINCHESTER
McGREGOR 1801 SCOTLAND
My Family Tree has grown since joining Genes-Reunited mostly through contacts made through hot matches. My story involves travel from Suffolk, Cork, Winchester, Lowick, Dundee and Perth all of these travellers combining in different parts of the country and I have used the site to great satisfaction.
Poor Agricultural workers from Suffolk left to join the Industrial Revolution in Lancashire travelling for four days and nights without changing clothes and arriving in Bury where they were giving a house and food and a job. Irish Protestants escaping the famine in Ireland came to Liverpool. Hampshire Agricultural labourer went to sea and met up with a lass from South Shields and settled. A McGREGOR from Perth a possible descendant of Rob Roy runs away to sea and ends up in South Shields where his family grows. A sailor from Dundee turns up in Liverpool and meets an Irish lass from Cork. Their son meets a descendant of the Suffolk immigrants. The Perth Scot meets up with a Northumbrian descendant and their child meets up with the Hampshire man who unfortunately falls from the rigging of his ship the “Salamanca”. The Lancastrians move to London. The Durhamites move to London. They meet and hey presto here I am. Ian