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Postby saundra » 03 Apr 2015, 16:53

It's a free weekend with ancestry thingy
And iv traced my grandfather And my mum's brother and sisters
Via the 1911 census
I'm hooked
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Postby Diflower » 03 Apr 2015, 17:25

Oh that's good Saundra, I might have a little go tomorrow - even though ours has all been done :D
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Postby saundra » 03 Apr 2015, 17:29

So interesting dif got son hooked on it now might find a few Skelton s :D
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Postby tonicha » 03 Apr 2015, 17:30

My paternal grand father was found on Southport Beach - so that knocks that side of it on the head :roll: I keep thinking I should try the other side of the family, and Grumpy keeps saying he really should try his mob, but as they're from Belgium and France, as it was then, may be not ;)
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Postby Diflower » 03 Apr 2015, 17:35

My cousins and I were the 32nd generation of our family to be born in the same town - how boring can you get?! :D
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Postby JoM » 03 Apr 2015, 18:08

Ooh thank you Saundra! We'll be looking at that later - last time we looked on a free weekend, we couldn't find any trace of John's side of the family. Something a bit dodgy with them if you ask me ;) :lol:
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Postby saundra » 03 Apr 2015, 18:14

:D son asked if I was doing dad's lot
No I said none of them were normal
He laughed :D :D :D
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Postby JoM » 03 Apr 2015, 18:19

:lol: :lol:

Well we know that John's Grandad had to leave Northern Ireland, where he was born, pretty sharpish so whether he was here under an alias or whatever I don't know!
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Postby Kaz » 08 Apr 2015, 07:02

My friend is a genealogist and did mine for me when my parents died, as a gift. I found out some interesting stuff, for example my dad's family who came from the NE were originally Irish, miners from Derry, and I had no idea about that. I also found out that a great great grandfather on mum's side was a horse vet in Westminster and his son was caretaker of Big Ben at the beginning of the last century :)

We hit a dead end with Dad's paternal line, he was born illegitimately and although I always thought his dad's name was Hanley (dad had two names as a boy and two on his marriage cert!) he took Sewell (my maiden name) from his stepdad, and it turned out that Hanley was his grandmother's maiden name and nothing to do with his father, whoever he was! :roll:
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Postby saundra » 08 Apr 2015, 07:59

i was really intrigued to find my mums parents mum died in 1989 was born in 1909
so i didnt have any certificats or any details of her parents they died before i was born
so i put her name in the search and found her parents
:D i was so happy
my grandmother was called elizebeth ann ( im ann as my second name
my brother second name is moxon after his grandada
how strange we have grandparents to say there names
joseph moxon and elizebeth ann
they married in 1897 and elizebeth died 1926 and joseph 10 years later
he worked in stone quarry
my mums sister at 14 was a sweeper upper in a cotton mill
iv sent for there marriage and death certificats as a gift to my self
my brother was so happy when i told him on sunday
we have no photos and no relatives either but iv found closser on my past
my sons were interested we dont as parents talk about our past how i wish my mum
had told me more
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