Spooky

[Doon frae Troon]

My wife is into family history and has unearthed a few interesting ancesters.

What is quite spooky is the numbers of deaths of ancesters that coincide with later births. Far too many to be random in my opinion.
It is also strange that different sides of her family have lived quite close to each other over the years without a common regional factor.

My family is quite boring 400 years of agricultural labourers who never moved more than 3 miles away.

 

[Fader]

I find family history fascinating, mine is all to colourful.

Carpenter father that moved to Blackburn in his 20's to be with a girl who he split up with after 6 months, but met my Italian mother whilst he was there so ended up staying there and having me and my sister. Moved us all back down to Kent in our teens to be near dads parents.

As a result I've a mass of family that is Lancastrian, Kentish and Florentine (Italian). The upside plenty of places to stay when I go back to Blackburn to watch the once Mighty Rovers, plenty of cousins that like to show me the delights of Kent, and trips to Florence which I do as often as I can to see La Viola (Fiorentina) and family in a City I Love in the Tuscany region of Italy.

Add into the fact my now ex-wife moved with our 2 children to Chester means a family dotted around everywhere.

 

[Ethan]

What is quite spooky is the numbers of deaths of ancesters that coincide with later births. Far too many to be random in my opinion.

What do you mean?

 

[MegaSteve]

Not really researched my family history... Apart from what I've been told by my own parents... Both my parents were born within the sound of Bow Bells as was my Dads father... My great grandfather moved to London as a young child from the Highlands... According to Dad it was he [his grandfather] that dropped Mc from our family surname... So though I have fairly recent Scottish heritage I consider myself to be English... Can't claim to be a cockney though as I was born in a suburb to the west of London...

 

[forefortheday]

What do you mean?

You ain't from around here boy!

 

[Doon frae Troon]

What do you mean?

Starting to think in re-incarnation!!

Not just deaths but marriage dates co-incide with the birth of latter decendants.
Another strange one is that over 100 years four children [out of about 50] were born on 1st August.
Hang on .........just worked that one out..........Christmas holiday!!

 

[Ethan]

Well, in the old days, birth and death sometimes coincided - plenty of mothers died having babies.

Not sure how to explain deaths of any menfolk though.

 

[6inchcup]

Well, in the old days, birth and death sometimes coincided - plenty of mothers died having babies.

Not sure how to explain deaths of any menfolk though.

depends were your from anywhere past preston and when it reports death of brother/ husband it is the same bloke and sometimes the dad as well,it gets cold in the highlands!!!!!!!!

 

[Doon frae Troon]

6 inches......sorry to dissapoint your anti-northern flow but she's an Essex Girl

 

[6inchcup]

6 inches......sorry to disappoint your anti-northern flow but she's an Essex Girl

do you mean dim witted!!

 

[thecraw]

My wife is into family history and has unearthed a few interesting ancesters.

What is quite spooky is the numbers of deaths of ancesters that coincide with later births. Far too many to be random in my opinion.
It is also strange that different sides of her family have lived quite close to each other over the years without a common regional factor.

My family is quite boring 400 years of agricultural labourers who never moved more than 3 miles away.

I'm sure you could relate that information to any back water Ayrshire mining village! Do any of your family have 7 toes or play the banjo?

 

[Doon frae Troon]

The opposite.

But I must say that there are plenty of Essex girls I have met who live up to thier tag.

 

[cookelad]

What is quite spooky is the numbers of deaths of ancesters that coincide with later births. Far too many to be random in my opinion.

I took it to mean - Great Grandfather died 12/9/1712 for example and then Great Grandson born 12/9/1812 or something to that effect?

 

[Doon frae Troon]

That is correct cookelad.
Her ancesters were pretty spread about as well, Rutland, Yorkshire, USA, Hampshire, and London [sorry to spoil the inbred jokes]