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Isn't genealogy depressing sometimes?

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***Julie*Ann***.sprinkling fairydust***

***Julie*Ann***.sprinkling fairydust*** Report 8 Oct 2008 20:08

mac thats typical of y ou lol

Sharron

Sharron Report 7 Oct 2008 21:02

My g-grandfather died by falling from the vicar's apple tree.He was 64.

Little Lost

Little Lost Report 7 Oct 2008 20:41

I just found that my 3 x great grandfather died after falling into a vat of boiling water. He was working in a mill as a dyer. Found a report in one of the papers but I think there would be a bigger report in a more local paper.

*Helen S

*Helen S Report 7 Oct 2008 20:38

That is so sad. Like you say there's nowt new under the sun is there Kay?

*Helen S

*Helen S Report 7 Oct 2008 20:09

Hi Kay. Don't you think sometimes the staightlaced ones are so because of something they're kind of rebelling against? My Mam's Grandma was a right harridan and very straight laced. I found out her hubby had been in prison a few times before they married. When I told my Mam she was delighted as she didn't like her grandma. lol

***Julie*Ann***.sprinkling fairydust***

***Julie*Ann***.sprinkling fairydust*** Report 7 Oct 2008 20:04

makes you smile doesnt it how they could be so prim and proper,
then they get up to mischief like that,
my grandparents were the same

BrianW

BrianW Report 7 Oct 2008 17:58

Looking through the records for Lympne in Kent, there are burials for quite a few unidentified bodies washed up on the beach at West Hythe.

Could be some of our missing ancestors.

*Helen S

*Helen S Report 7 Oct 2008 17:55

Yeah see you there.
Hx

Easter Bunny

Easter Bunny Report 7 Oct 2008 17:53

catch ya over the road later?

*Helen S

*Helen S Report 7 Oct 2008 17:51

Getting evicted from computer by teenager. Back later.x

*Helen S

*Helen S Report 7 Oct 2008 17:50

Oh I'm not nosy, I'm interested! lol

Easter Bunny

Easter Bunny Report 7 Oct 2008 17:47

HAVE PM'D YA

Easter Bunny

Easter Bunny Report 7 Oct 2008 17:46

thats really sad H

Easter Bunny

Easter Bunny Report 7 Oct 2008 17:45

your nosy lol xxx

*Helen S

*Helen S Report 7 Oct 2008 17:45

My mam had a older sister, (my mam was named after her). Who died of diptheria when she was 7. She had had school photos taken a few weeks before but my Nanna culdn't afford to buy the. After the lass died my nanna contacted the photographer but they had been incinerated. Always make me want to cry. At the time she was my nanna'a only girl.

*Helen S

*Helen S Report 7 Oct 2008 17:43

Rosemary. Who looked after the child who survived. Is your OH decended from her/him

*Helen S

*Helen S Report 7 Oct 2008 17:42

Kay, any idea why they waited so long to marry?

*Helen S

*Helen S Report 7 Oct 2008 17:41

I've read bits about it a while back. About poor little Isabella Hazard who the called the blue girl. Poor bairn, terrible for being famous as an example of classic cholera

*Helen S

*Helen S Report 7 Oct 2008 17:40

You're prob right there winterwitch. If they had to rear them on cows milk the poor babies didn't have a hope.

Easter Bunny

Easter Bunny Report 7 Oct 2008 17:40

have you read about the cholera outbreak in sunderland,that had me weeping