Family Tree

[Bluesince1979]

I did mine over lockdown via ancestry.com. I have the most unthrilling family tree ever. As a lot of both sides of my family are from yorkshire , occupations didnt stray much from the mining industry. A noble occupation but not overly exciting.

‘best’ thing thats happened was having a great uncle x10 deported to australia in the 1800s for rape

 

[mackenzie]

I did mine over lockdown via ancestry.com. I have the most unthrilling family tree ever. As a lot of both sides of my family are from yorkshire , occupations didnt stray much from the mining industry. A noble occupation but not overly exciting.

‘best’ thing thats happened was having a great uncle x10 deported to australia in the 1800s for rape

Yeah, I have a direct ancestor sent to Australia too, but mine went for theft. He had a family here and they were left behind.
His granddaughter (who I actually remember as she was my great Gran and lived to 101) never mentioned him. She was a right sanctimonious old sod so I'm not surprised.

 

[Bluesince1979]

Yeah, I have a direct ancestor sent to Australia too, but mine went for theft. He had a family here and they were left behind.
His granddaughter (who I actually remember as she was my great Gran and lived to 101) never mentioned him. She was a right sanctimonious old sod so I'm not surprised.

Apparently the story with my sex case relative is he had an affair with someone he shouldnt of, a higher class, so it was deemed he mustve raped her.

How true that is, i dont know,
Sounds like a story u might spread round rather than admit your uncles a rapist

 

[mackenzie]

Apparently the story with my sex case relative is he had an affair with someone he shouldnt of, a higher class, so it was deemed he mustve raped her.

How true that is, i dont know,
Sounds like a story u might spread round rather than admit your uncles a rapist

Yeah.
One thing I've learned doing family history is that people like to embellish the truth. Although who knows, maybe there is some truth in it.

 

[mexico1970]

With all these triple and quadruple barrelled names and people not staying in their local parishes it's just going to get harder to find out where you are from.

Mate of mine found out that an Uncle from way back came from Ireland and I shit you not he celebrated Paddys day with a passion and vigour from that day on.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

No real roots in my family. Its been fucked up so much over the generations.

My wife's side though, loads of history and romance.

 

[Eccles Blue]

Also I found a lot of information from Local Family History groups. They have forums where you can ask questions and usually folk are very helpful. My maternal grandmother was from Norfolk. I joined the Norfolk LFH and found a whole family of cousins in Australia! They had been searching to find out where my Gran had gone after 1911 when she’d moved from London between 1901 & 1911, you can end up getting ‘hooked’ on it. :-) I originally started mine in about 1999 and with the Australian family ended up visiting them in 2004.

Just before last Christmas one of my Oz second cousins informed me of another of my grandmother’s illegitimate offspring he had found in Derbyshire. :-) It turned out that one of her great-grandchildren from that branch had been at school in Rochdale when I had been training teachers there!
Sorry, waffling on there but it can get fascinating. :-)

This morning after a lot of emails during the past fortnight my second cousin sent me an update on the family tree and especially my maternal grandmother. She appears to have been a bit of a one my grandmother!!! Between us we have found 2 more illegitimate offspring!!
Mind you to counteract that she also lost 2 children before they were even 5 years old. (They were to my grandfather and legitimate)

My Oz relation who is in to this more than me also found some relations in Philadelphia through DNA research. I don't want to go down the DNA road but the person he has found I did actually know about but not where he had gone to live.
On my maternal grandfather's side (the one my Oz cousin is not interested in) I've traced them back to 1795 but in Leicestershire!!

Amazing how the internet can come in useful at times! :-)

 

[Eccles Blue]

My Australian connection by the way is down to a great aunt deciding to go on an adventure from Norfolk in the late 1910's and she met an Australian who became her husband and it stemmed from there!!!

@Kirkstall Blue I found the RC registers fascinating. Found them on the Lancashire online Parish Clerk project though which gives you lots of information on the churches throughout Lancashire, outlying small villages as well for every denomination. I spent hours on the Barton one and then the Eccles one.
What I also find interesting is that areas that nowadays are just sort of a district of xyz in the past were very important. e.g. Barton upon Irwell which nowadays is just Barton an area of Eccles around Barton swing bridge etc. was in the past the most important area in Eccles for registration. If I typed in Eccles sometimes I couldn't find what I wanted until I typed in Barton on Irwell, Barton upon Irwell or just plain Barton!!

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

When my mum died last year, I found a box with a load of documents in and it also contained the family tree of my Nan. Looks like my dad had done the work (He died 16 years ago) and possibly didn’t even mention it to my mum as she certainly didn’t to me. The tree goes back to 1780 and to a small hamlet in the Lakes, Hesket Newmarket. My great great great grandad or whatever he was, was the village blacksmith and had 6 children, 4 of whom became vets, one in America and one in South Africa so I no doubt have family over there. I plan to have a drive to Hesket to have a mooch round and see if I can find his grave as it may lead to more Information. I will save it for when retired though as can see it would take up a lot of time. One of his sons lived until he was 95 which from 1810-1905 was probably very unusual!

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

My sister did some research that discovered that my gran had a child in 1926, when she was 14. And this child was brought up by her mum (my great grandmother) as her mum’s own child. And so my dad and his brother knew her, but thought their sister was their auntie. They all lived in Hulme together, when there was lots of social interaction.

She died alone, in a home for people with mental difficulties in 1983. My dad and his brother both visited the grave of their sister.

My gran would be absolutely mortified about this discovery!