| Ancestry 21:42 - Jul 14 with 4336 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
Watching Olivia Coleman on Who Do You Think You Are, has anyone done their family tree and found any skeletons in cupboards?
The best one I found was with Mrs CB's great grandfather, the family had been told by her grandmother that her dad had died in Cardiff when she was three in 1910.
Then I found out that he in fact hadn't but he had joined the Army, (we assume running away) as soon as she was born in 1907. He later turns up married to someone else, with a kid and calling himself a widower living in Preston.
Looking into him a bit deeper, I found out that he was discharged from the army after two years, and then when the first world war broke out in 1914, he shot himself in the foot to avoid being recalled to the Army. The foot became gangrenous and he lost his leg. He was known locally in Preston as the 'one legged tobacconist'. |  |
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| Ancestry on 16:36 - Jul 15 with 339 views | hype313 |
| Ancestry on 16:09 - Jul 15 by factual_blue |
Back in the day a colleague of mine interviewed a then not famous Kevin Rowland about a missing/stolen benefit giro.
Kev's parting words to him were 'I'll be famous one day', |
You sure it was a Giro, not a Geno |  |
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| Ancestry on 16:38 - Jul 15 with 340 views | leitrimblue |
| Ancestry on 16:33 - Jul 15 by PhilTWTD |
Funny you should say that but my great great great grandfather was a Ward. Will have a look into him further as he could well be the source of my Irishness. Was born in Essex. |
Then we are also possibly related.... Halluva lot of us in Suffolk and Essex and all over the West coast of Ireland. It's quite an infamous name in the West of Ireland..... |  | | |
| Ancestry on 17:03 - Jul 15 with 326 views | PhilTWTD |
| Ancestry on 16:38 - Jul 15 by leitrimblue |
Then we are also possibly related.... Halluva lot of us in Suffolk and Essex and all over the West coast of Ireland. It's quite an infamous name in the West of Ireland..... |
I will have a dig around to see if I can find out more on my GGG grandfather and his background. Might get my Irish passport yet. Too late to tempt Mick into putting me in a squad though. |  | | |
| Ancestry on 17:07 - Jul 15 with 321 views | hoppy |
| Ancestry on 16:36 - Jul 15 by hype313 |
You sure it was a Giro, not a Geno |
That's what Jackie Wilson said. |  |
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| Ancestry on 17:18 - Jul 15 with 313 views | factual_blue |
| Ancestry on 17:03 - Jul 15 by PhilTWTD |
I will have a dig around to see if I can find out more on my GGG grandfather and his background. Might get my Irish passport yet. Too late to tempt Mick into putting me in a squad though. |
Have a guess who else you might therefore be related to..... |  |
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| Ancestry on 17:54 - Jul 15 with 293 views | leitrimblue |
| Ancestry on 17:07 - Jul 15 by hoppy |
That's what Jackie Wilson said. |
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