General Chat

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.

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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


K

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.

Make sure you do Rita ;-)