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One of my lines is for JONES from Southampton.
I decided to research Great grandmother Charlotte's siblings in the hope that I could find what happened to their father with the distinctive ( not) name of George JONES a labourer.
One sister married a James CHALK....Now my OH has a long line of CHALKs, but they hailed from Downton, Wiltshire, so I though nothing of this, but a tree on Ancestry traces James in Hampshire's line back to Downton before the move to Hampshire.
OH had researched his side and said his findings coincide with the tree owner and he already knew of the marriage to JONES, but didn't realise that the bride of that marriage was my relative.
It's a very distant link, but when you think that OH was born in Scotland, his father in Kent and we met in Wales, it was a surprising find.
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or like we were somehow meant to meet and marry and join the families.
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Weird, isn't it?
Almost like there's a hidden link :-0
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My OH's paternal family came fro Devon and Dorset, hi maternal family originated in somerset.
His maternal family ended up in South Wales.
My maternal family on one side originated in Somerset and they ended up in Portsmouth Hampshire from late 19 century on.
In the 19th century an ancestor of my OH married the daughter of my gtX2 grandfather in somerset. (North Petherton). Neither of us had any idea that we had family contacts to that area until I started to research our family trees.
I was born and brought up in Hampshire and he was born and brought up in South Devon. We met and married when he was in Fareham at HMS collingwood in the RN.
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My elder daughter had her DNA tested recently.
We have the same 'Heritage' but
She has 20% more North and West European than me
20% less 'Celtic' (my dad side was 100% Cornish back to 12th century)
Twice the amount of Iberian!
Now, doing research, I found out, years ago, that her dad's gran was a New Forest Traveller - as was my great gran (mum's side). Both ladies worked at the same farm in Sway - but 10 years apart!
Could explain the Iberian - daughter got a double dose!
But, I'm intrigued - did these ladies know each other?
I've recently discovered that, in the early 19th Century, his dad's family lived in Romsey - as did my mum's.
What was even weirder was, his great times 5 aunt married my great times 5 uncle :-S
At Grammar school in Hampshire (I'd previously gone to 6 primary schools from Scotland to Cornwall), one of my best friends had an unusual surname.
...then I found ancestors with the same surname in Cornwall, did a bit of research - we were distant cousins!
Anyone else had this happen to them?
Meeting my ex was also a weird 'chance' thing.
His dad was in the Navy, mine was in the Fleet Air Arm, so we both moved around a lot as children. Ex was in the RAF, based in Cyprus when I met him.
His mum died, so he came back to the UK, and met up with his best mate at Secondary school - who was going out with (and later married) my sister.
My sister and I were living together at this time.
We got on well as soon as we met. Moved around a lot, married, had children - then divorced.
However we're still friends, and will be spending Christmas - at the same time - with our children and grandchildren. Not sure who's sleeping on the sofa this year!
:-D
He is unaware of the Romsey connection.
I'm still finding it weird that our families intermarried all those years ago - I mean - what are the chances????
Probably higher than I think.
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