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Come Inside... => The Snug => Topic started by: Snoopy on February 01, 2009, 05:55:04 PM
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As I have told you so many times you are probably bored stiff with hearing it I am very keen on researching my family tree. In this enterprise I have found a number of distant cousins still alive and we correspond whenever any of us find anything of interest The following is extracted from an email received today:
I thought I'd let you know that I've located one of Great Great Grandmother Lucy's brothers. He was convicted of highway robbery in Wiltshire in 1840, and transported to Tasmania the following year.
We've found all his records online. He never married. Obviously the black sheep of the family!
There is a long write-up in the local paper in Wiltshire, 2,200 words long which gives lots of details of his crime.
I have had a quick look at the records and he was transported for life. The journey out took 4 months from April to August 1841. He died in Tasmania in 1877.
All jokes about Adam Ant have already been done by the wife ~ Thank you. ::)
The funny thing is that he lived in Sussex but was caught "in the act" in Wiltshire. The other side of my family came from Wiltshire ~ rubschin: I wonder if I owe myself any money?
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Have you checked the 1911 census yet? Not fo him, obviously. But now it's online, like....
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Bin there, done that, two weeks ago.
I may not have a rug or even a bread slicer BUT I do have an annual subscription to the Records Office you know.
Which for the uninitiated means I get to see released documents early. whistle:
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The 1911 one lets me find out about my Grandad. The 1921 one will let me find out about his murky fancy wumman
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Bin there, done that, two weeks ago.
I may not have a rug or even a bread slicer BUT I do have an annual subscription to the Records Office you know.
Which for the uninitiated means I get to see released documents early. whistle:
Or a Blu-Ray player... you forgot that... whistle:
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Snoops has a home cinema. You can seat 7 or 8 in comfort
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I have? shocked003 I can? shocked003
Ah don't tink soooo noooo:
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I have one too. Telly in the corner and a couple of sofas
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I have one too. Telly in the corner and a couple of sofas
point:
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Whereas you have telly at the end and 4 deck chairs
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Yay! Nick's telly is out on parole!
Slap up supper at the next BBC Directors meeting then.
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My stepdad has started doing his family tree recently and ours....apparently I am descended from a line of French Gypsy / Witches eeek: eeek: eeek:
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I have one too. Telly in the corner and a couple of sofas
rubschin: Actually we have a telly in each front room and can seat 10 lol:
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My stepdad has started doing his family tree recently and ours....apparently I am descended from a line of French Gypsy / Witches eeek: eeek: eeek:
Not at all surprised
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Yay! Nick's telly is out on parole!
Slap up supper at the next BBC Directors meeting then.
The telly is another story and presently involves a deeply annoying Stanley Baxter look alike and sound alike cussing:
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My stepdad has started doing his family tree recently and ours....apparently I am descended from a line of French Gypsy / Witches eeek: eeek: eeek:
Not at all surprised
Didn't think you would be lol:
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My stepdad has started doing his family tree recently and ours....apparently I am descended from a line of French Gypsy / Witches eeek: eeek: eeek:
My lot are a right bunch. I've one who ended his days in Broadmoor for taking a hammer to his mother and sister and now one who got transported for being a Highwayman. Another fell off the gangplank of his ship, returning drunk from leave, and drowned before they could fish him out. A great uncle was a chef on the Titanic and survived not only the sinking but also the food ~ meanwhile my Mother's father deserted from the army as he hated marching and, in order to hide from the law, joined another regiment (cavalry) and ended up in the Boer War at Mafeking. Another great great Grandfather was a "Bible Christian" which was, apparently, a breakaway sect of the Weslyans who all signed the pledge and paraded round the pubs of Southampton trying to get the sailors and dockers to give up the demon drink and ended up getting beaten up every Saturday night.
All fvcking barmy ~ the whole lot of us!
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Genetics had to get it right eventually though Snoops eh ;)
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Yay! Nick's telly is out on parole!
Slap up supper at the next BBC Directors meeting then.
The telly is another story and presently involves a deeply annoying Stanley Baxter look alike and sound alike cussing:
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I'm amazed Snoopy's lot ever managed to survive long enough to procreate. eeek:
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Genetics had to get it right eventually though Snoops eh ;)
Nice of you to say that. (https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fsmileys%2Fsmiley-excited002.gif&hash=6a9f3bb496a0beffc3eae3eb4994a2e2637c4914)
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I'm amazed Snoopy's lot ever managed to survive long enough to procreate. eeek:
Me too ~ The one whose uncle was a Highwayman had 15 children though. He was one of 11 himself.
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deserted from the army as he hated marching and, in order to hide from the law, joined another regiment
He deserted from the army and joined the army to escape pursuit? rubschin:
Makes perfect sense noooo:
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Yay! Nick's telly is out on parole!
Slap up supper at the next BBC Directors meeting then.
The telly is another story and presently involves a deeply annoying Stanley Baxter look alike and sound alike cussing:
(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fsmileys%2Fsmiley-eatdrink033.gif&hash=96a676e56a9c0fbe87241b4373743c912b70b75d)
When I have time. He is very annoying and I can't understand a word he says
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I had a maiden aunt like that! She used to speak to me in French eeek: (She was English and completely do-lally!)
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Do we all come from famlies of nutters?
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No.
Oh the shame!
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YES! Or we wouldn't be here on a Sunday evening would we. angry041:
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Do we all come from famlies of nutters?
Not me... noooo:
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The Patriarch
worthy:
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Do we all come from famlies of nutters?
Not me... noooo:
That's rich coming from a man who can't look at his own shins without fainting ::)
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Do we all come from famlies of nutters?
Not me... noooo:
That's rich coming from a man who can't look at his own shins without fainting ::)
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There is nothing wrong in being a highwayman!
Not even at the point of a gun? lol:
Actually he was charged with Highway Robbery ~ perhaps he worked for the DVLA or Esso.
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There is nothing wrong in being a highwayman!
No nowadays, no.
Stalwarts of society. ;)
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Do we all come from famlies of nutters?
Not me... noooo:
No?
Then you must be the first of a new strain.
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Hence my comment ::)
I am surrounded by idiots noooo: