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Make sure you do Rita ;-)

Oh for sure my paternal grandads family . He was German an the family must have come to England between 1881 and 1889. A brother Gottlieb was born in Bradford in 1889.
By 1891 they were in Limehouse London and in 1901 they were in Charlton SE London where gran must have met him He was a squaddie at the Woolwich barracks I think when they took up with each other. Unfortunatly he died at sea in 1911 and nothing more known of his family from 1907 when grt gran died and was buried in Charlton Cemetery SE London.

Headbashing, I know what you mean.....don't they just drive you round the bend at times! :-(


K

I think it would be on my mums.. mum 's side of the family
and also i'm doing OH 's dads side of the family and cant get past his grandad in Waterford Eire ,it's just a brick wall .....and my head is getting sore from bashing it :-D
Hazelx

Oh yes, I would give the WDYTYA experts my 30 yr old brickwall, for starters, just to see how they get on with finding my elusive grandfather, 'cos I can't find a thing, and it's not for want of trying!!! :-S


K

My Mum's mother's side. She was Irish and would like to get further back than her. Also My mum's father as he seemed to be a desserter in whichever Army he was in.

I would like to find family on my dad's mum Gunda Maria Stromberg from Norway and her mum Augusta Gustavsdotter and her dad's side which was Gustafv Olivier Stromberg and his dad Lars Olsson and further back to see if I can find the link to Princess Christina of Sweden or the regent of Sweden Axel Oxenstierna

I think there is still family over there who I would love to find

For me it would be my grandfather who called himself George Thomas Latham but his brothers were called Bryant (Mark & Ted) but I wouldnt have to travel far as they were from Bristol

Pam

Why not Rita whats the worse they can say " NO thanks " go for it, :-D

My fathers maternal grandparents. There might be trips to Alsace, Rotterdam and Essen ;-)

I am another one who would chose to research the Irish side of my family. Especially my mother's, mother's, mother (Alice Lane) who was born at the time of the Famine.

I would love to know more about her family and how they managed at the time of her birth. Did any of them go abroad? Did her parents and sibs survive? etc
I know where she was married and her fathers name, but nothing else before her marriage.

Tess

i would love to find my elusive g grandmother ella mcdonald,been searching for her for 7yrs but cant find her after my grandfathers birth in 1915.
and i would also like to find my irish g grandparents who came from belfast to liverpool sometime after 1880.x :-D

Ooo Hayley difficult choice. I think my Dads side as only got his mums line. Farmers with big families, swapping house's as families grew larger and parents found their homes emptying. Some local hearsay I'd like to get to the bottom of. Was the farm passed to the sisters as long as they never married? What sort of father would do that?

My mother's ancestral family: - what happened to Mary Ann Dyball? and did great-uncle Isaac Newton go to Canada?
My father's ancestral family: what happened to Joseph Barber Brooks? and take me across to Fermanagh.

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

chris :-)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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