General Chat

To OH's 2xg.father George Warren - were you an asthmatic all of your life and is that why you moved so often in spite of being a Master Cordwainer?

Robert Spence b.1801-1870 Linlithgow (Master Tanner) - where is your wife Jacobina Calder buried prio to 1870.

Your son Alexander Spence b. 1826 d. 1880 Dublin - where is wife Jane Lawson b. 1832 buried?

My Grandfather, Clifford

1) Where were you prior to 1904?

2) Were you really the black sheep of a wealthy and/or titled family who left home and changed your name (as I have discovered my Aunt. his daughter, claimed)?

3) Whose are those sketch books which I am now custodian of?

My GG Grandmother Ann Bellett born 1809

Where did your husband John Taylor come from?
What were his parents' names?
Who fathered the three children you had starting from a year after his death until you married the neighbour?

Of course I could answer all of these with my own theory ..........aprt from PH which was totally from a Catherine Cookson novel ..*scoffs* :-D

I would ask my great aunt Sarah

1) Did you actually marry that man you claimed to be the widow of in 1882? And if so where and when?

2) How did you manage to avoid appearing on any census records throughout your life?

3) Was your third marriage the shortest ever?

:-S :-S :-S

Hi,

Thanks for your contributions, I never realised there were so many brick walls. Maybe when we die we will have access to a time machine and we will be able to look back and find all the answers !!!

John

My great great paternal grandfather born and baptised in 1807 in Horsham Sussex as Francis Edward Elwood son of Matthew and Jane Elwood who then disappeared off the face of the earth. Died 1888 and your probate states you were Francis Edward Elwood Mitchell.

1. What happened to your parents and where did they come from. Did you have any brothers or sisters.

2.You married in 1831 as Edward Mitchell and you were known as Ted. Who were the Mitchell's that brought you up and from what age did you live with them.

3. You're stopping me going back another generation and I should have been born an Elwood not a Mitchell so any small clue would be good please.

Dare I ask :-0
What IS your theory Hayley?




P.S. I agree, that one by Prickly Holls was on the Drama channel the other afternoon :-D

Well thanks to this thread, I relooked at my gg grandmother and I've finally decided that it must have been her on that 1911 census (because the years of marriage matched up) and her husband must have been at sea. Maybe one day I may find out when she and her husband died.

I'll have to have a think, there's so many questions, three doesn't seem quite long enough.

I would ask my Mother-in-Law's mother, Amy Spencer, where she disappeared to after giving up her baby daughter shortly after her birth in 1912. It is the last great mystery in my family tree that I don't think I will be able to solve. Bob