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Hi Found a gr gr grandmother who had an child out of wedlock who she abandoned got married had more kids - husband died - she went to prison!!! Her daughter ( my gr grandmother) had 3 children out of wedlock & then abandoned them too!!! Like mother like daughter!!! Penny

Hi Sheila they don't make men like him anymore do they.lol Gill

My great gran had four of her own husbands and I dont know how many other peoples she had too. Great granda on the other side - got in practice with his 2nd wife by having a child as my real grt gran his wife was still alive but ill - he eventually went on to marry that woman after his 1st wifes death - in total he fathered 25 or 26 children and died aged 50 odds of exhaustion!!!

I know Roxanne, brilliant isn't it?!! My brother said that if doing it in a plane is the Mile High Club, then doing it on a moving train must be the Mile Long Club lol! Mandy :)

What was I thinking of?! I missed off the best one! My great-grandfather was given the status of pauper in 1921 so that he could divorce my great-grandmother on the grounds of adultery. Apparently she committed adultery with a named man from her village ON A MOVING TRAIN! Now, I'm not sure of the significance of the moving train .. anything to do with not having a wee when a train is stationary I wonder? And who exactly SAW them - the signalman? Then it transpired that there were other 'gentlemen' with whom she had been over-friendly. His divorce papers are fun to read! Mind you, great-grandad made up for it by having a total of four wives (not all at the same time though). Mandy :)

It's all good stuff is'ant it what would we do without it people who don't do this must be bored to death. Gill

Just had a surprise this morning - my grandma's cousin turns out to be her half-sister. My mum will be delighted cos it wasn't long ago I found that her parents married later than she thought;)

Yes i have found a few children whos ages don't match the length of time there parents were married. One grt gradmother who had 2 daughters before she married and a grandmother who had a daugter 2 yrs before she married. They were all so upstanding and moral were'nt they. ha ha ha.Gill

I found a sort of aunt not sure what she is really i heard her name in my childhood but thought she was a friend of my grans. Any way when i started doing my family history found a picture of her marridge we got intouch with her and it turns out my grans mum and her grandma were sisters. She is a lovely lady 87 yrs old we visit her once a month. Gill

Had another surprise too this week. Found my maternal grt gran had married her first cousin after my grt grandad died,&&& when he died six years later she married HIS elder Brother. So she not only married first cousins ,they were brothers too. Shirley

Hi Gillian Yes I agree with you about feeling weird about the surname. Had a moments panic as wondered whether we had all done things legally.like getting married etc ,with the incorrect name, but reasoned that as grandad had married Nan with the anglicied name & dad & mum married in the same ,and all us kids registered in the english version then we were Ok. PHEW!!!!!. Causing me problems tho know trying to go back on the german side as dont know when or where they came from in Germany. They didnt take naturlisation . Shirley

I was very surprised to find I had great-great-grandparents from Essex & Warwickshire - I thought my family were all Londoners way back. Found a few illegitimate children - one is a surprise as I think it is my gt gt grandmother, who married a parish beadle and was ultra respectable in later life. Biggest shock was finding my Gloucestershire gt gt grandmother's eldest brother was in Broadmoor having been acquitted of murder on the grounds of insanity back in 1862. He cut the throat of his pregnant fiancee. Poor chap, he seems to have been very simple and had had 'trouble with his head' after receiving ill-treatment from a farmer he was working for when he was just 8 years old. nell

Nothing terribly exciting but enough to make my research interesting. Main 'surprises' were finding a living aunt that I didn't know existed (she is lovely and we are in regular contact) and discovered that my very upright and moral grandfather (on my birth family side) was actually illegitimate himself .. and he lied on his marriage certificate to cover it up! Mandy :)

I am begining to realise the name i grew up with and my father lived with all his life and his father before him was'nt his right name it feels really wierd. Gill

Not a shock,but a surprise,discovered my paternal grandfather & his family were German & the surname we had was an anglicied name from the german so not really our family name. Shirley

While doing family research has anybody found out any real skeltons in there family.Gill