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what do you know about your family history?
Topic Started: Wed Apr 7, 2010 3:26 pm (1,141 Views)
Dralek
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Hey AWOL, hats off for this thread, very interesting!

My fathers side: The first member of our family to come to America was "invited" to leave the UK after the failed Jacobite rebellion. They supported "Bonny Prince Charlie" and were given the choice of prison or life in the colonies. All in all, about 500 of his clansmen came with him and settled in what is now North Carolina. I also have a great-great-great grandfather who served with Stonewall Jackson as a sharpshooter in the Army of Northern Viriginia. ( We now live less than an hour from Jackson's Mill, and very close to the forgotten site of the first actual land battle of the American Civil War...not Bull Run.) He moved west after the war and married a young Cheyenne woman. His grandson, my great grandfather, moved back east onto some of the old family lands. His wife taught in a one-room schoolhouse for many years and was referred to by everyone who knew her as "Maw Susie". She was actually one of my biggest influences growing up, with her stories and gifts of books. She lived to be 102 before passing on, and I am thankful to have been blessed with her in my life.

My mother's side: My mother's side of the family descends from the Hatfields. Yes, the crazy hillbillies known for the Hatfield/McCoy feud. If there is a unifying thread with the two sides of my family, it would be don't give a drunk a weapon.



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Sun Oct 2, 2011 12:48 pm
You colonials seem to know an awful lot about your families. Well done.
Lack of ties to the landscape & shaky sense of cultural identity
probably. :rachel:


or our families are just more interesting. Being descended from all those alpha risk takers. What do you say when asked? been here for 800 years. Came from over there. :liz:
I am sure our families are equally as fascinating. The deep, rich and lengthy cultural history will see to that. There is definitely less of a need to feel tied to something though. Interesting.
You don't feel the need for it because you have it, without even being aware of it. Genealogy is slowly becoming more fashionable here as traditional communities disentegrate- I may have been the first person from my maternal family line not to have been born in rural Kent for a very very long time.

Just one of those weird things innit
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Lus
Sun Oct 2, 2011 7:57 am
So cool that your Dad was part of the RCMP musical ride - he must have been a great Horse rider! Not seen them live but have seen videos of the musical ride & it takes skill - kinda like our Royal Cavalry musical ride, who I'll be watching next weekend. :)
Royal Calvary, cool. Never heard of them. Is that British?

My father was actually on the ride when they took the picture for the 50 dollar bill. I'll see if I can find a picture of it.

Yeah, they are part of the UK's military. Their musical ride is amazing to watch, this will be the third time I'll have seen them but it never gets old!

This is the best video I could find of them, performing at Olympia Horse Show in London last December:



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He is in the 7oclock position to the right of the horse with the white hoof.

That is very cool!

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i heard the story of how my paternal grandparents met. (dad's mother's father)
this is the guy who ran away to avoid joining the Polish Cavalry (see first post)

several times he went to a train station where immigrants would come in to where he was living. (presumably to find a wife) he bypassed any woman he thought was too skinny & went after the lady who became my great-grandmother because she wasn't. for several years starting at 14 she worked planting trees for the government in Poland (although Poland didn't technically exist at the time. check wikipedia for more on that.) & had to sleep out in the open on the ground while she worked.
apparently he was looking for a "sturdy" woman to bear several children (which she did) & to pull the plow when necessary. (i think she did that too)
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If you've got any Ashkenazi Jewish blood, particularly from Romania, Austria, Poland, or Spain (Sephardics are in Spain), we might be related.
Once Ixalla was ready, Tathrelle cornered her. “Before we leave for work, I just want to tell you, I’m sorry. I guess I sort of shut down last night. I know you were in pain and I wasn’t too terribly supportive.” There was a wall covering in the main part of their chamber, something that Tathrelle hadn’t noticed before. She stared at it for a second and then shook her head.

Outside, a disembodied voice announced from a hidden speaker, “It is time to travel to all daytime places of employment. Transportation sleighs are available and ready. Citizens are encouraged to thank the sleigh drivers at the end of a successful transport. The government recommends haste, and requests that all pregnant persons be given preference for seating in their designated areas.”

A little distracted, Ixalla just asked, “Pain?”

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My mother was a Land Girl, working on farms during the war years. She was married twice and had 5 kids, my younger sister and I from the second marriage !!

My father worked on farms before the war, was conscripted into the army, shot and wounded in France, and worked on the British railways afterwards !!

They both died a long time ago, both in their late 70s !!
R.I.P. Gummy, we'll miss you bro
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Such interesting stories.


My German great grandmother on my mother's father's side migrated to Jamaica from Germany with her Jewish husband before WW2. Thank heavens or I probably wouldn't be here today.
My Mother's mother was a direct descendant of the Maroons who were slaves who escaped from the slave ships and fought in the Maroon wars which led to 5he abolition of slavery here.

I don't know much about my father's history. He was not in my life much growing up
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i just remembered the story of how my mother's parent's met.

my grandfather was taking the train (from somewhere to back home, i think) and struck up a conversation with the guy beside him. they ended up exchanging life stories and found they had a lot in common. as the train pulled into the station my grandfather spied a nice-looking woman, turned to the guy & said: "i think i'm going to marry her." the guy looked at him and said; "that's my sister!"
a few years later they got married.
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.--Abraham Lincoln
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Thu Jan 23, 2014 3:30 pm
Such interesting stories.


My German great grandmother on my mother's father's side migrated to Jamaica from Germany with her Jewish husband before WW2. Thank heavens or I probably wouldn't be here today.
My Mother's mother was a direct descendant of the Maroons who were slaves who escaped from the slave ships and fought in the Maroon wars which led to 5he abolition of slavery here.

I don't know much about my father's history. He was not in my life much growing up
Heh, who knows? Maybe we're related.

Quick story.

My father's maternal aunt lived to 100 and was sharp as a tack until the end. She tells of the Influenza Epidemic of 1919. She, my grandmother (her younger sister), and their younger brother lived with my great-grandmother. My great-grandfather had taken his eldest son and gone to NY. They left everybody else in Austro-Hungary.

My great-grandmother died in the epidemic. So a family member would come over every week and bake bread for the motherless children. One day, the snows were impassable, so the relative couldn't come. My great-aunt had watched the woman bake bread, so she made it herself. When the roads were clear, the relative came over and saw that she was no longer needed, and my great-aunt could take care of the kids herself.

Shift gears to WWI. They're still in Europe as immigration is closed. My great-aunt took to smuggling tobacco to support her siblings. Finally, they got here some time in the '20s.

She didn't marry until she was 40. When I was a teenager, she told me to not get married immediately. With this heavy Yiddish accent, she said, "You should have fun first."

I miss her.
Once Ixalla was ready, Tathrelle cornered her. “Before we leave for work, I just want to tell you, I’m sorry. I guess I sort of shut down last night. I know you were in pain and I wasn’t too terribly supportive.” There was a wall covering in the main part of their chamber, something that Tathrelle hadn’t noticed before. She stared at it for a second and then shook her head.

Outside, a disembodied voice announced from a hidden speaker, “It is time to travel to all daytime places of employment. Transportation sleighs are available and ready. Citizens are encouraged to thank the sleigh drivers at the end of a successful transport. The government recommends haste, and requests that all pregnant persons be given preference for seating in their designated areas.”

A little distracted, Ixalla just asked, “Pain?”

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