Ancestor stories?

Question:do your ancestors have stories like where they came from, what happened and other stuff? My grandparents' is absolutely great. I really like it. My grandmother was from England and when the second world war broke out she was sent to Ireland by her brother. There she met with my grandfather (who was working in the house my grandmother had stayed) and they fell in love then got married, but no one approved of their marriage, especially her brother. After the war they immigrated to the States, and lived happily ever after. I don't know what affects me so much about it, but I listened it like 40 times, what do you think? Do you have stories like this? I'd love to hear yours.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: do your ancestors have stories like where they came from, what happened and other stuff? My grandparents' is absolutely great. I really like it. My grandmother was from England and when the second world war broke out she was sent to Ireland by her brother. There she met with my grandfather (who was working in the house my grandmother had stayed) and they fell in love then got married, but no one approved of their marriage, especially her brother. After the war they immigrated to the States, and lived happily ever after. I don't know what affects me so much about it, but I listened it like 40 times, what do you think? Do you have stories like this? I'd love to hear yours.

This is an old (true) story. My sons g g g g g g g g grandfather was born in Scotland and due to religious persecution, his family moved to Ireland, where he was employed as a coachman for a very wealthy family. Soon after, he (William) and his employers young daughter(Susannah) fell in love and secretly eloped. When her family found out they locked her away and attempted to have him killed. He escaped and came to America to begin a new life. Meanwhile, his young bride gave birth to their son and remained, for over a year, a prisoner in her parents estate. Of course, the lovestruck husband made plans to free his wife and whisk her away to America where he had made a life and home for himself. Plans were made for Susannah and William to meet. Susannah and her young son went for a stroll one day and promptly boarded a ship, with William, sailing to America. Together, William and Susannah had 13 children and William, grateful to America for his new life, faithfully served as a Sergeant in the Revolutionary War and was one of the persons who secreted away the Liberty Bell during wartime.

There are many of them,,but the one that stands out is that my grandfathers side of the family came directly from Germany and one of his sisters actually died of sun exposure on the boat...on the way to America.

we all have stories some more exciting than others - my grandparents ran off together

My family has been in Virginia and North Carolina for at least the last 200 years for some branches, and as long as 300 years for others, and even longer than that for other lines. My family is getting smaller as my grandparents and great-grandparents have all but one died now. There are not many stories floating around about our history. Doing genealogy, I found out so much that no one in my family even knew about us and where we came from.

I had an ancestor her name was Millicent Shaw and she was born in Greasley in Nottinghamshire. Well one afternoon she decided to travel into Nottingham city centre as there was a public hanging. There was a massive crowd for this one, a man had killed his wife and three children in a drunken rage, hundreds turned out that day. People were restless and trying to get a better view Millicent decided to run with the crowd to find a better view point someone tripped over causing Millicent and 12 others to be trampled to death that day. That took place in March 1824.

Europeans, like my grandfather, had super good humor and would elaborate on fine details while making up their own. They passed down the story that my grandfather and his mother arrived as stow-aways on an onion boat when he was 10. The reality is that he arrived on a ship where he paid his own fee at age 19 and his mother arrived about ten years later as a pauper and he went to save her, paid for her trip when she arrived. The manifest translation (a lot of the scriveners who translated the manifests to ancestry.com guessed at names and places) says my grandmother was going to Chocoland (actually it was Cleveland).

On my other side my aunt always would tell about my grandmother being pregnant and sick on the trip to America (I think most trips took about 3 months). So far I am unable to find the birth or her child. I also saw that they arrived with 2 additional small children that no one knows anything about. And I noticed that my grandmother's brother was listed as a "female" on the manifest.