General Chat

Which line would you suggest for trace?

Giving all the help you get, I would go for my GGrandmothers on my Dads tree, which is me sparkes.. :-D

I would go for my gg grandfather on my Dads tree ..... Gregory

l think l'd go for my grandmother on my fathers side Margaret O'Connor:)

jude

Would this be for interesting story.... or for brickwall-hope-to tumble- line?

I have sat for hours in a Record Office looking for parents of my 3 x great grandfather, so wonder how they could get past that hurdle of about 14 years looking.

Gwyn

If I was getting the trip it would be the Irish line :-D

mmmm

i would want my little nan on my dads side

but also my granparents on my mum side

I would ask for help with my maternal grandfathers side. He was half Swedish, half Latvian, and destroyed his passport, birth cert and naturalisation papers.

I would ask for help with my 4th great grandfather on my mums side Abraham Nowell. We have been searching for his birth for years, several possibilities but they all seem to have be claimed by someone else.

Although I think even WDYTYA would be stumped with this one. I have almost given him up as a lost cause.

:-S

To answer Gwyn either .....like Rose I'd like the trip to Ireland as Ithink they came over from Dublin possibly during the pototoe famine the dates match, I do find the women interesting but would like to see what I could dig up and I would like to see the bits they add, her father was a tailor and Sparks isnt a tipical Irish name, and they are bit brickwall :)

RS that sounds interesting... :-D

pain in the bum Hayley lol xx

Not really up on War stuff, but could it be he was scared of being sent back, had the nazis visited his town or village?

Martyn I love a bit of scandal and a good rumage :-D I have something simlair on my dads father side his Mother ( my GGrandmother) was widowed at 29 she re married 18 mths and names 2 different men as father on each cert I have searched just incase I have got the wrong marriages but too no avail its her alright ... :-S

My Margaret had an affair with an MP got kicked out by Bernard Meninsky and went back to Ireland where she died in child birth:((((

jude

OK then... Apart from said problem on Dad's side, I'd like to learn more about Mum's GG uncle who left Herefordshire and went to New Zealand c. 1859.
He married a part Maori lady, so meeting up with their many descendants and learning more of their culture would be fascinating.


Gwyn

it would have to be my dads dads side
they are so hard to weed out

i am begining to think they were aliens sent from mars
anybody know the censer site addy for mars lol

Hayley, I dont think Sweden were involved in the war and he was born there. I know he came to London legally as he was naturalised, he sees to have had a bad childhood which he refused to talk about, so I think thats the reason behind it all.

Maybe Romany .....go with me here we are about to take a trip in to Hayley land of what ifs...

Lets call your reallie Joe if I may, Joe was born in Sweden but his parents or one of his parents wasnt Swedish as you say.... Joe and his family move about, they arrive in Austria or maybe Germany, Joe has dark very handsome looks and possiblely his family are mistaken to be of the Jewish faith...its war time, they are some how caught up in the Gettos but manage to escape , they or just Joe arrive in London Joe by now trusts no one so he gets rid of all evidence he has of him.

ooo-er let me read it then lol. Erm yes its possible. He was put in a boarding school but the school havent kept his records so they say. His real father who was Latvian died when he was a baby, his Swedish mother and stepfather brought him up. Marriage and death certs give nothing away, I do have his parents names tho. Unless I can track down his mums maiden name and his birth Im stuck, but Sweden is daunting, I dont even know WHERE exactly he was born except it was a village lol. His dad was allegedly a naval captain but his name isnt on any records. Anyway sorry for warbling!!!! Just thinking aloud on here.

Try to find my great grandmothers first husband whose name appears on 4 certs, between 1892 and 1899, but never found him on any census or a birth or death for him.

I would have to go for my great grandparents on my dad's mom's side
Both are hard to get.

chris :-)