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Famous or infamous ancestors.
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ZZzzz | Report | 1 Oct 2024 21:13 |
Has anyone found anything like this in their family history? I haven't Yet. :-D |
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Island | Report | 1 Oct 2024 22:32 |
My great grandad was fined 5/- and 14/- costs for committing a nuisance in public - does that count? It was in the local newspaper :-D |
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ZZzzz | Report | 1 Oct 2024 22:58 |
Yes it does :-D because it made the local press. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 2 Oct 2024 07:55 |
My great grandfather also made the local press for being drunk in the street. It didn't say what the fine was. That would have been in his teens 19th century. |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 2 Oct 2024 12:11 |
Not famous, but I was horrified to see an ancestor's name in the paper after she had been abused as a 6 years old child back in late 1800s. |
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LaGooner | Report | 2 Oct 2024 12:14 |
Both in OH's tree :-D :-D :-D :-D |
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ZZzzz | Report | 2 Oct 2024 13:32 |
LaGooner have you looked hard enough? LOL. |
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LaGooner | Report | 2 Oct 2024 13:34 |
I have a couple of shifty characters in mine but nothing to shout about :-D :-D :-D |
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ZZzzz | Report | 2 Oct 2024 15:08 |
Well mine were all squeaky clean........ NOT. |
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nameslessone | Report | 2 Oct 2024 15:53 |
Infamous relatives! I wouldn’t like to say ;-) ;-) |
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grannyfranny | Report | 2 Oct 2024 15:53 |
Ggrandfather was a school headmaster and in a book about the village he is on the list of headmasters by date, for 16 years. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 2 Oct 2024 16:42 |
I've got a few. |
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SheilaSomerset | Report | 2 Oct 2024 17:21 |
One of mine was tried for manslaughter at Gloucester Assizes, late 1800s. He was driving a horse and cart over a narrow bridge and an implement on the cart caught a young man who was standing on the bridge and pushed him under the wheels. There were 2 other carts in front, whose drivers were at their horses' heads, but my ancestor wasn't. However the judge at the trial directed the jury to find him not guilty as it was neither 'gross nor culpable' and therefore not homicide. Just found it an interesting glimpse into the era. |
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Florence61 | Report | 2 Oct 2024 19:09 |
One of mine is remembered in connection with the Gunpowder plot every year, so shall say no more ;-) ;-) |
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MotownGal | Report | 2 Oct 2024 19:32 |
One of mine was a famous artist who has works in one of the London Galleries. |
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SuffolkVera | Report | 2 Oct 2024 20:53 |
One of mine was on the stage and famous in the 1820s-1845 when he died. There are loads of newspaper reviews about him and his death was widely reported. |
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agingrocker | Report | 2 Oct 2024 21:19 |
Does it have to be an ancestor? |
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ZZzzz | Report | 2 Oct 2024 21:41 |
No I think not agingrocker, what were you in the Woman's Weekly for. :-) |
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agingrocker | Report | 3 Oct 2024 08:55 |
Sorry ZZzzz, I'd like to tell you a really interesting story but I can't. |