General Chat

Found a great great aunt who went into a workhouse with her two sons. She lived there for twenty years before dying although her sons grew up and married. I was sent a photo of the grave of my great grandfather who died in France in WW1. That greatly affected me.
Sue

I don't get emotional over ancestors deaths as I see it of a fact of life (bit like taxation) I just get very excited when I discover an old document and think how many hands it has passed through before i find it !

Harry, u dont need to c anyone. you are a person who cares about your old rellies. i cant understand why i need to find answers myself as most of my family are not interested. perhaps im too nosey. nite, x

Yes Harry, same here.......I think we are all much the same, these were our family and often had such hard or sad lives......I often wish I could send money back in time to them to make their lives easier, and perhaps they would have lived longer........but I cannot change the past.....

I am happy with my comfortable life, and maybe they thought the same, not knowing any different, and also thinking of how far they had come in life, and how hard their parents had worked......

Three ancestors I feel for.....my Scottish miner Grandad who died at 48 before I was born, of acute bronchitis, myeolitis, uremia and kidney failure......due to coal dust, but no compensation...... a Gt.gt. grandmother who died at 32 in the Gartside Royal Lunatic Asylum of TB......having left her children, the youngest born the year before......they were brought up by her in-laws....
A 3 x Gt grandfather who lost about 8 of his children and went into an asylum and died there.......poor man......poor family.....

nite nite Sally. x

Nite kathryn....

Got a look at paper and he got a lesser charge of assault on his wife but he used to hit her all the time though she used to do all the working but he didn't work all the time but he used to drink so he got 4yrs for killing his wife what a sad end to a girl of 23yrs old with 2 small boys

Oh yes Harry, I think of them a lot.

the terrible things they had to endure, and things I have found out which make me understand conversations with my granny better.

Deanna X

Very true Deanna. Would also add, pity we didn,t grill them more about their background and origins
Would have saved me a few grey hairs.

Happy days

Val................that was a really tragic story, poor woman:(

I hope her boys grew up to have a good life.

xx

Oh yes I really wish I had asked granny about things.

Well you don't want to ask personal questions when you are young do you?

My granny was in hospital with her heart when I and my auntie (her youngest daughter) were both expecting our first babies.
We sat by her bed and told her all the things we had knitted and bought , and about a cot quilt we had spied at the same time.... but I had won by a heartbeat. ;-0)
1957, it was only 5/- too in a sale.
Granny said, not to buy too much lassies, you never know what might happen!
NOW... I know that granny lost her first baby girl at a few days old.
She and grandad named her Edith, they then went on to have another baby girl and they named her Edith too.
My auntie Edith, so beautiful, and clever who grew up and became a nurse and married *her* doctor. AND I never knew that she was beauty Number 2.

Yes I wish I had asked her more than the silly things I did ask her.

Deanna X

Don't know what happened after 1901 as George was in Edinburgh with his aunt and William was with his gran and his dad was out of jail by then