Off Topic Family Trees
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Not a direct relative, from what I understand he was the brother of one of our family. But a skeleton in the cupboard that no one in my family talked about,.
http://www.britishexecutions.co.uk/execution-content.php?key=197&termRef=Thomas Siddle
http://www.britishexecutions.co.uk/execution-content.php?key=197&termRef=Thomas Siddle
I have heard that before, but I don't really get it. That could be down to some of the 'rules' of the English language being mongrelised when they tried to write a set of rules for pretty much Germanic words but applying French rules...or something.
It's the office you go to to register hatched, matched and dispatched, so in that respect I get it, but those details are added to the registry, so it's also the office where the registry is kept.
In my mind, it can be both, but most use registry, which makes it correct as far as the rules on English Language go.
Back on topic, our relaxed use of the rules adds to some of the issues found when researching family trees. Many names have a host of different spellings, as quite often the person themselves was barely literate, so it depended what the registrar heard and how they chose to spell it.
Okay, disruption with trivia but, I don't think it's still the case, but someone marking where they wanted you to sign by putting a cross on the line, has been used to get out of a contract, as people claimed they hadn't signed the document, they were simply witnessing the other person's signature.
I have a cousin who used geni.com to assemble our family tree back to the "old country," as we say here. I had long been told I was descended from a namesake signatory of the Declaration of Independence, yet was a bit surprised to find that I really am his fifth great-grandson. His father had emigrated to the colonies from County Tyrone in Ireland, whose father had emigrated to Ireland from Scotland. Geni has established my lineage to my 11th great-grandfather, who was born in Northumbria in the mid-1500s. This means, among other things, that on any give day I can loosely claim English, Scottish, or Irish heritage.
www.geni.com
www.geni.com
I started doing mine, but know so little beyond my grandparents (and my parents weren’t much use), that I didn’t get very far before giving up.
My mum recently gave me a book based on a diary kept by a distant relative during WW1, he was awarded the George Cross, but died almost immediately afterwards. He’s such a distant relative, it didn’t really feel like I was reading about a relative at all.
My mum recently gave me a book based on a diary kept by a distant relative during WW1, he was awarded the George Cross, but died almost immediately afterwards. He’s such a distant relative, it didn’t really feel like I was reading about a relative at all.
Filey was a branch of my tree, but the tree fell apart years ago. Seems to have all gone wrong when my grandad split from his wife in the 40s or 50s no one even talks about it.
Even though we were on 25th NHE and Filey was actually just round the corner on 21st our paths never crossed. He may have been mates with my brother who was 3 years older than me and nearer to fileys age.
When Fileys mother died just a few years ago my dad was getting ready to go to the funeral (uninvited only seen it in the paper) my mother even asked what was he going there for, because she was my sister was the reply. I recon he hadn't seen her for at least 40 years. It was there filey met my dad and putting all the 2s together he worked out i was on here and we then passed a few PMs between us.
Moral to the story, if there is one. It's much easier to do your tree when relatives are alive and talking to each other.
Even though we were on 25th NHE and Filey was actually just round the corner on 21st our paths never crossed. He may have been mates with my brother who was 3 years older than me and nearer to fileys age.
When Fileys mother died just a few years ago my dad was getting ready to go to the funeral (uninvited only seen it in the paper) my mother even asked what was he going there for, because she was my sister was the reply. I recon he hadn't seen her for at least 40 years. It was there filey met my dad and putting all the 2s together he worked out i was on here and we then passed a few PMs between us.
Moral to the story, if there is one. It's much easier to do your tree when relatives are alive and talking to each other.
Me Mam knows all of the family history of everyone on NHE. Both of my sisters and me Mam have between them an encyclopaedic knowledge of the years between 1945 and 2000. Me Dad drank in Greenwood on the day it opened and died the day before it closed for good, he was well respected on the estate as far as I know.
That said when we did our family history, no one knew about the murder and no one can tell us why our name changed without any reason around 1910. People used to sing “Won’t you go home Bill Bailey” at my Grandad as he rode his bike in town and he never would say why, He wasn’t called Bailey. But it seems like that was our family name just before WW1.
I found more about my father’s family than he ever knew. Asking questions as a kid got him a clip around the ear. But what I did find about his family was very “interesting” - illegitimacies, prisoners of war, murders, imprisonments. By comparison my mother’s lot were respectable but boring until I got back to the 17th Century and some early Quakers who kept being chucked in prison for disrupting church services and refusing to swear on the bible for jury service.
I like it because it brings history to life. Plus knowing that the cumulative effect of all the births & marriages and interesting lives lead to me and that blows my mind a bit.
I like it because it brings history to life. Plus knowing that the cumulative effect of all the births & marriages and interesting lives lead to me and that blows my mind a bit.
Even though we lived 100 yards from Greenwood and my dad was a drunk I cannot remember him ever going in there. Another mystery.
What there are a load of Aussies called Dennisboothstash?My Mum did loads in ours in the days of microfiche research. Remember helping on few holidays.
Haven’t paid much attention since.
I do know at least one of my ancestors was sent to Australia, and he was sent there for killing someone in a bare knuckle boxing match!
There’s more of my family name in Aus than the UK...which probably says something
My great grandmother ex fiancé was hung for a double Murder in whiltshire. She was one of the intended victims. Had he got to her I would not be typing now...