I have found out that my gt gt grandfather, Edward Ward left the UK, leaving his family in Staffordshire, to work in Richmond, Virginia,USA and was killed in the famous collapse of the courthouse in April 1870-He was only 35!Www@QuestionHome@Com
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: My 3 x great grans sister travelled into Nottingham city centre to watch a public hanging of a man who in a drunken state had murdered his wife and three children and had been sentenced to hang!. Because it was a crime where children had been murdered it would seem there were thousands of Nottingham folk who wanted to see justice served for the children and their mum!. Because of the amount of people who turned up, it was decided that the gallows would be moved and then more people could witness the hanging!. When word spread amongst the thousands of spectators the crowd began to run to get the best place to see, Millicent Shaw was trampled to death in Nottingham city centre, there were twelve more people trampled to death on that day!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Yes! So far I have found out that I am a direct descendant of Dame Lilias Drummond of the famous Fyvie Castle in Scotland!. I also have a few male ancestors who were "known' for dabbling in the Dark Arts!. I have traced the religious history of my family line to the 1400's!. Six centuries of continued Catholicism has left me quite stunned!Www@QuestionHome@Com I have found out that we modern people have it really good and are generally spoiled little brats!. Many of my ancestors were able to read & write, so they wrote about things, or did things that other people wrote about!. Those lines all came across to North America between the 1630's and 1720's, most with great misery and hardship!. Many were indentured!. Within a generation, however, they were running the show!. They founded towns and cities, and universities (Columbia & Rutgers), dumped the King's Tea overboard, and were generally hell-raisers hell-bent on creating a nation that wouldn't oppress them!. There are lots of other lines, more obscure!. They're just as important!. I'm working on finding out who they are!. All of these people who struggled to pass on their DNA to us are important!. Still can't find any horse-thieves, however!. Darn!. Www@QuestionHome@Com Ancestors back in the 1600's married in South Devon were obviously French!. My paternal grandparents didn't marry till my Dad was 12, but it was a bigamous marriage because granddad's first wife was still alive!. An Aunt was murdered - I have a copy of the newspaper report A Gt!. grandfather died aged 39 of delirium tremens (he was a brewer!) - I have a copy of the Coroner's hearing in which Gt!. gramps is said to "have the appearance of a man who had accustomed himself to alcohol"! A 3x Gt!. uncle was sentenced to death at Taunton Assizes for stealing 200 pounds "in Promisory Notes"!. Eventually he was sent to work in the Wellington Valley in Oz on a ship called "Claudine" in 1829!. I have a copy of his "Conditional Pardon" but I don't know if I have any cousins in Oz!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Yes, I have traced my family back to Germany in 1675!. Most interesting, however, was the fact that my g-grandfather hadn't really died young, he had run off to California and "married" another woman while still married to my g-grandmother!. And nobody knew that until I discovered it a couple of years ago!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I have started to but I have hit a brick wall, I have been trying to knock that brick wall down for 2 years now! neither my grandparents can remember much about their families!. The probelm starts with my g-g-grandparents, I cant find anything on them as they moved when they met each other and never talked much about where they came from so I dont know where to search for records =( how are you searching yours!? what are you using to help you!?Www@QuestionHome@Com My g-g-g-gradfather is listed as a servant in the house of the woman who became his wife in the US census!. I also have an ancestor listed as Caption of the Scots, which I found out was a title reserved for the head of the guard for the French king!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Yes! Interestingly enough, I am distantly related to Eleanor Roosevelt!. Www@QuestionHome@Com Apparently I'm related to Adam and Eve somehow!.Www@QuestionHome@Com suicide and insanityWww@QuestionHome@Com |