General Chat

My Mum told me that an uncle got a bit the worse for wear one night, when he got up the next day he couldn't remember anything about the night before. There was however a bicycle in the hall that didn't belong there.

I asked what he did about the bike, apparently as he didn't know where he got it and wasn't going to get the police involved he painted a different colour and kept it! :-0 :-0

Great Uncle Herbert and Great Aunt Maree couldnt live within their means. They were forever doing a moonlight-flit. On one occasion they and their brood were found to be living in an Oast House long before it was fashionable to do so.

:-D :-D :-D :-D I must have a really boring family. Although my Great Grandfsther was once arrested for being drunk snd disorderly.

A couple of my g x something uncles, although just Ag labs, built their own houses on Middleton Moor, in the mid 19th century.
A neighbour of uncle George built some sheds in his garden - that went over onto Georges land.
After constantly asking the neighbour (Mr Cooper) to move the sheds, and being ignored, George had had enough and decided to do something about it. He stormed round to Cooper's, axe in hand closely followed by his 'housekeeper'. Cooper answered the door, closely followed by HIS 'housekeeper'.
An argument ensued, George managed to get through the house to the back, and demolished the sheds.
Meanwhile, the 'housekeepers' were at the front of the house sorting things out themselves (brawling).
The police were called, all four were taken away.
George was acquitted - Cooper had no right to interfere with George's land Georges actions were 'reasonable and understandable', and he was within his rights to destroy the sheds.

The 'housekeepers', however were charged with creating a public disturbance! :-D :-D

Lol Ann. No doubt his wife gave him merry hell as well. :-D

My dad was into recycling before it became environmentally acceptable. On one occasion he 'liberated' some damaged? pipes from a building site. That time the local Bobby came calling. He'd already buried them in a ditch to help with redirecting run-off. Non confrontational mum let him know very firmly that he shouldn't do it again. ;-)

I was told by a distant cousin - way back in the 1700's/1800's one of my ancestors ended up in the local paper

He loved his daughter so much he had children with her - when she wanted to get married to someone he killed both her & the boy friend & ended up being sentenced to death

I have to find a copy of the local gazette for my family tree file

My Dad went out for a drink with two of my uncles, before they went abroad in WW2. When they got back, my Dad went to the loo, and never saw his braces again???

My family were the original founders of the Vicars & Tarts Balls. :-S

We have a couple of vicars, an archbishop and a prostitute among our ancestors.

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Something Dad never knew about.

And here's something else.

One of my ancestors from the same side of the family left land to build a church on, the money for the building and to educate two poor children of the same faith.

I have more stories from my rather colourful ancestors but I don't think I can beat the odd mix of those I posted earlier, all down the same line.

It surely is a strange and wonderful life.

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Sadly nothing in my family. I have searched court records etc. hoping to find some dark secret, but to no avail. We did have the police knocking on the door one day, my elder brother had been...wait for it... cycling on a public footpath!! He maintained that there was no sign forbidding it, and when the police checked, sure enough, the sign was missing, so he got off. Some time later my dad found the sign in our shed. This was about 60 years ago.

My Granddad fell or was pushed down the stairs aged 22, we will never know.