Topic: Has anyone gone down the ' ancesters ' road ?

[flossy]

   My son is researching our family tree,  my Grt Grandfather had 8 children--

   today he found another 3 !    11 in all !  - we think !   We know where he lived in

   Saffron Walden, so we are having a day out to find the house - hoping it will still

   be there.    The occupations are fascinating ;-   Riding School Proprietor,  Billiard Marker'

   amongst them,    would love to here what you have discovered about  your history.

   floss xxx

[GRACELAND]

Done Loads on My tree Finding out Loads Have got back to 1766 on one line

Found A suicide In Local river .
War Deaths

Now have 774 People In my Tree !!

[flossy]

   Bloomin eck !!

   Have you ventured out to find where they  were living yet, UK or where ?

   It is so fascinating,  always enjoyed history and when it is about your own family --

   even more so !

   Tell me more GRACELAND,  not prying , just interested --  especialy with occupations ,      ::)

   floss xxx

[GRACELAND]

I have Found Nearly all there address jobs The Census 1841/1851/1861/1871/1881/1891/1900/and now 1911 all help great detail giving jobs and places of address of them and of coarse their names
 then there is  getting birth and death certs marriage certs all theses cost though  ???

Most of my lot were ag labs 95 percent anyway a few carpenters  and one had a Pub  ;D
... But it all is very interesting Even found my Great grandfather was  69 when he became a father with my Nan  who ended up in an orphanage  at the age of 3 with her sister !!  :o Due to his death and the mother died a year before  but before he died he remarried !! ::) ::)

[GRACELAND]

Have a go here

http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.

or

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Home/Welcome/welcome.asp

 :) :)

[GRACELAND]

The Suicide Was my great grandmother She drowned her self in The river Severn at Gloucester 1944  ... I visited the Records office where i found the courners report  and the Note she left   ???

[GRACELAND]

A sad Tale ,,
         A Young girl born in Essex Works as a nurse ,Before meeting a man some how from the little village  of Leintwardine in Herefordshire .
            They Marry and move to Gloucester and settle down in the poor westend of the city a very poor slum type area then late 1870s ,
                     Well they settled down and had a family  of five children then another but he dies after just five days .
                         Well a few years passes by then the husband gets ill
  He dies in 1895 of enteric fever ,,
                     So a a little while passes by and she remarries and settles
     down again a stones throw from where she lived before still in same bad conditions  but she take on  four more children another on of these dies  a bit latter !
           The sons from firs husband go to war another one dies !
                 Then later she becomes ill and is in bed for a while when the Dr is called to see her  an appointment is made to see a Dr at the hosp ,
                     She is told of a growth in her stomach ,And would need an operation . This put her in a panic thinking i suppose of her first husband !
               So she went home ,,
                   Then on the 17 night of October She Wrote a short note
And put it on the mantle piece and walked down the garden into
          the river ......
                 She was found  next morning !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

        That lady was my Great Granmother ,,,,,,,,

[GRACELAND]

Worried by need for operation,
      The city coroner Mr G Trevor Wellington held an inquest at the Royal infirmary on Friday on Elizabeth Jane Jones Age 56 The wife of Charles James Jones ,
   Of 1 Foresters yard Westgate Glos
          Deceased husband a gen laborer said he and his wife had always lived on happy terms .
               During the past month she had been attended by Dr Graham For a growth in the stomach she had also been seen by Dr Terry at THE hospital.
                   Who advised an Op !
           This greatly worried the deceased but she had never made any threat  too take her life .
                                On the eve of Oct 17th He went to bed at 9pm,
Leaving deceased down stairs to wait for their son ,at midnight he missed her from the bed room .
                        So went to look for her but could not find her .
         So went to police station .
               At 6.30 the following morning he found her in the river Severn near to Westgate bridge ..
              The police recovered the body the family were badly off as witness had been out of work for soom time Stanley Jones (son 18) corroborated his fathers story .
      Dr G ,Stated the deceased had been in his care for a month .
     She had signs of abdominal tumour probably of malignant nature .
                 He last seen her on 25 th Sept
               She was evidently worried and depressed and generally in a low state of health .
               The coroner recorded a verdict of   Found drowned .............

      The Gloucester Citizen Oct 21 1922 .............................

[GRACELAND]

The note she left  read,
               don't get any black for me,
                    bury me in a paupers grave ...

[GRACELAND]

 :)   well u asked  ;)

[Sinbad7]

I'm glad someone did Graceland, I love all this kind of stuff.  A sad sad story.

Found tracing me ancestors totally fascinating.

[ACE]

Never got very far on my search, got my own birth certificate and found out the father named on the record was not the one I used to know. :o

[Sinbad7]

Ohhhhhhh, so why did you stop there then Ace?

[flossy]

   Graceland, thank you so much  for  sharing your history,

    - going to read it all again in the morning , so much life going on before.

    Sad story you've told here - what a lady,  took courage .

    floss xxx

   

[Hyacinth]

I've just read of the life - and death - of your great grandmother, Graceland and I was really touched. And at the end in her note she was still thinking of her family and the financial impact her death might make on them, and trying to ease it, wasn't she...bless her :'(

[GRACELAND]

yep a sad story and great lady

[Paulines7]

What a very sad story Graceland.   :'(

I am also researching my family tree and have two suicides to report in the same canal!! 

My grandfather was found drowned in the Surrey canal at Deptford.  The inquest returned an open verdict but the family thought he probably committed suicide as his wife (my grandmother) died a few months before.   During my research into the family tree I found out that his grandmother had also committed suicide in the same canal but 14 years before my grandfather was born!  I was gobsmacked by this revelation and often wonder now whether my grandfather had ever been told of his grandmother's fate or if it had just come into his head when he took his own life.

I find family tree research fascinating.  It is very addictive though.   ;D

[GRACELAND]

 :) :)

It is very addictive though. VERY  :)

[GodfreyRob]

My mother's side of my family are the Pecks (Sheffield) and in the 50's they had a book compiled of the family tree. Went all the way back to the battle of Hastings - were a distant ancestor was killed.

Turns out Gregory Peck was a relative too and for several generations up to the 50's many were famous concert pianists/musicians.

Apart from me playing in a brass band in my youth, no-one alive is now showing any signs of musical or acting talent  :(

[Trixiebelle]

My Uncle researched our family in Sheffield a few years ago. We were trying to trace family that were possibly RICH!

He found a not-so-distant branch of ancestors that owned a sweet shop in Attercliffe (now a run-down area of Sheffield that was formerly lovely) That's why I probably love pear-drops so much!

And even MORE way back .... in the 18th Century our family were shoemakers/menders.

Which is entirely typical! We go in search of monied ancestors and what do we find????








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