General Chat

what would he/she be called?.....where would they live?......what would be their occupation be? What kind of life would they have led?

Well, I've got imaginary parents......does that count?! LOL

My REAL parents are Audrey Hepburn and James Bond (as played by Sean Connery of course, none of the others though! LOL).

Mary

Oh! I like the question but I don't have a semi-intelligent answer at the moment, so I'll just stick this here and come back later ...


Contrary Mary, James Bond and I are from the same stock, the Bonds of Erth. Although I can prove I am and he may have been lying ... which might be an inherited characteristic in this case ... so you may not need me ...

But if you can prove you're my cousin, and I'm always looking for cousins, you know, wel'll talk!

I'm working on it Janey, I'm working on it!! LOL

Mary

I would have an extremely rich and fore-sighted gt gt aunt who during her life time was a patroness of the arts , and sponsored many a budding artist....in return for a painting of her choice from each artist, which she would then leave in her will to her only gt grand niece (moi) when said niece reached the age of 'sense' ( 53 ).

My imaginary ancestors would have been Kathy and Heathcliffe..... or Darcy and Elizabeth .... or Rhett and Scarlet .... or Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning

But - as it happens - I can only lay claim to being an illegitimate forebear of James Drummond, Earl of Perth, circa 1745 - and that is debatable.

Sue x

A forebear, suzian?

You mean ... like the guy born in the southern US colonies who was the grandfather of my ancestor born 250 years earlier in Cheshire?

Per a tree at Ancestry, anyway. ;)

Hi Janey

If you're interested, here's a bit of what could be my family history

http://www.kredhead.plus.com/James%20Drummond%20After%20Culloden.htm

Sue (bow the knee, I could be royalty, many times removed, ye surfs!)

Sue x

Ahem. I was merely mocking your vocabulary. ;)

Read the middle paragraph of my post above slowly ... !

My claim is to being the unrecognized descendant of a son of the 3rd Viscount Monck of Ballytrammon ... I think that's how it goes ... they were numbered differently in the English and Irish peerage, and then the viscounthood went sideways in one generation ... brother of the 4th, anyhow!

If we play Rock Scissors Earl Viscount, which one wins? And oooh, does she win the title??

I suppose you'll be wanting the DNA test to prove mine first ...

Ah, Culloden. Strange foreign doings. Was there a "The Cameron" involved in all that?

In the course of trying to find descendants of the other unrecognized offspring of the 4th Viscount's brother (my gr-grfather's sister Ada the Actress), I reconstituted the 19th century family tree of a bunch called Lovett Cameron that her husband's wife [eek! I mean: her husband's sister] had married into (and much of the 20th century, having reunited far-flung cousins in the clan in the process). The 19th century ones (one of whom was the first white guy to cross Africa horizontally) had claimed to be descended from this The Cameron, but it appears they were lying. If not, then I'm related to him by marriage ... er, by marriage by marriage ...


Okay, skimmed through there -- reader's digest version: who got the goodies? The squatters, it seems? Not you?

Surf, dare not to mock my vocabulary

For your are only the unrecognized descendant of a mere viscount, whereas I am a daughter of the House of Drummond....... maybe!

Lady Sue, progeny of the Old Pretender

x

Yeah. But I'm related to James Bond.

This must make me Contrary Mary's aunt or something.

No goodies here, Janey

Although I was told as a child that the family had a pair of silver hairbrushes and a silver belt buckle which came from Drummond Castle.

l now own them and I do know that they are Jacobean silver, but where they came from is a mystery. How they ended up in the ownership of my family, who were coal miners, I know not.

But then Biddick was "inhabited by banditti who set all form of authority at defiance". Perish the thought that ancestors of mine came across them falling off the back of a wagon....

Sue x

I've decided on a Viking ancestor whose surname is The Red (actually I do have an ancestor who has Red in his gaelic name lol) Need some help with the first name -hmmm perhaps Gloria the Red.

She would be based in Scandinavia, perhaps Norway - i quite like it there :)