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Having forked out to join FMP, I’ve decided to get as much out of it as I can.
Having stumbled across a ‘rogue’ granny on my side, I decided to trace my ex’s line.
I knew where his dad (born 1906) and grandfather were born, and not wanting to spend money, I decided to use the censuses as far as I could, then see if parish records would help.
Well, I got back to 1711. ?
I did have a few advantages, one was a strange family name (usually given as a second or third name – but my grandson has it as a first name) the other was where they lived.
His grandfather worked in a paper mill. In fact all his male (and a lot of female) descendants back to 1850 worked in the same papermill.
The family moved. They moved a lot. They moved along a 4 mile stretch of road that contains 2 villages and a town.
They tended to marry girls from ‘another’ village (ie NOT the village they lived in at the time, but the OTHER one), though one ancestor went up to London to marry. He married a girl from the village who was in service in London. They came back down a few years later.
I knew Ex’s grandfather had married a girl from further afield – Sway in the New Forest (but she was in service in THE town when they met)
As a young girl in 1891 her first place in 'service' was 3 miles from her Sway home, at a farm in Hordle. Strangely, during the war, my grandmother was evacuated from Southampton to the very same farm.
In 1850, his ancestor was a builder – as were his predecessors. There weren’t many builders on the 4 mile stretch of road, with the same surname, hence I got back to 1777!!
Ex’s dad broke the line of paper mill workers. At 19, he had an affair with a 36 year old divorcee, who ended up expecting his child. His mum made him move out of the village – the only bit of 'scandal' I could find - he joined the Navy as a boy chef. Ex's granddad secretly gave the woman money for her child.
Ex and I found ex’s half-brother – unfortunately after ex’s father had died (he wanted to meet him) The boy had been born and brought up in THE town on the 4 mile stretch of road. :-S
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Well, it's not my family, but it is our children's.
Ex's mum will be harder. She was illegitimate, and never knew her father - the same as my dad!!
I've got back as far as 1868, but need verification (certificates) of what I've got, and to enable me to go further.
I want to look into ex's New Forest grandmother, as one of my great grandmothers was from a Forest family, and his grandmother was born at a similar time to my great grandmother.
My grandmothers were born in 1904 and 1908, ex's father was born in 1906 - so his family are a generation older than mine.
It would be hilarious if I find we were 'related' before we married!!
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it wouldn't be too surprising from other stories that I have heard!
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I wouldn't be at all surprised if you turned out to be related.
We all find weird and wonderful links in our trees.
When I started out in my own family history, I made contact with a woman in Australia who shares my own, only Scottish ancestry.
As an LDS member, everyone assumes she did her research carefully .
However, her rather large tree is full guesswork rather than fact.
As usual, everyone else has copied it, warts and all!
I gave up on her long ago.
Last year, I was working on my husbands family who came from Banffshire.
A cousin of his grandfather emigrated to Australia where he married a girl from Glasgow.
I did some more research on their children/ family in OZ
As I entered the info, I got a link..... to the same wonky tree belonging to the same female that I gave up on
What on earth was my husband's relative doing in this tree?
When I spotted it, I nearly fell off my chair.
A grandson from the Australian marriage of my OH's relative... ..married HER !
Yes! the very same researcher !
Their children share 2 separate sets of Ancestors with my children!
( No, I haven't told her)
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Oh dear GlasgowLass!!!! :-(
If ex and I were 'related, it would be around 1880 or before.
Both his grandmother and my great grandmother have 'established' New Forest names - so they'd been on the Forest for generations before they moved.
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