Re: Hey Farml, Rob, David and All..

"Terryc" <newsthreespam-spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> FarmI wrote:
>
>> My family is somewhat similar in that 2 brothers married 2 sisters so
the 
>> cousins can sometimes remember stories about one or other of our mutual

>> ancestors that weren't told in my family and vice versa.
>
> Oh oh, if one of those names startes with a H and is a unique spelling 
> that traces back to Northumberland(?),then we are close cousins. OTOH, 
> that wasn't uncommon 2 brothers marrying 2 sisters or similar.

Nah,  you're perfectly safe - not on H in the lot (forenames, middle or
sur)

>> LOL.  I know exactly what you mean!  Mine are a dull lot generally -
lots 
>> of >> non conformists so missing records all over the place and others
of 
>> other forms of religious zealot but a few people of historic interest 
>> which I still can't connect into the family.  That sounds totally daft 
>> coming from someone who claims to have an interst in genie, but from 2 
>> widely geographically dispersed sides of the family who never had any 
>> contact, I have the same stories about a Lord Mayor of London who was a

>> rellie, however the stories they have told about other things have al 
>> been deadly accurate so I'm not prepared to yet discount the story. 
>> Besides which there would be no kudos at all in claiming him unless he 
>> was related as other than being LM >> of L, he's as dull as ditchwater.
>
> That is what I meand about just letting people tell the stories as they 
> remember it. Overtime, it can be "reinterpreted" but if you get two 
> slightly different tales, you can sometimes uncover this. I had a
mixture 
> of "daughter of a govenor" and "related to the govenor", which turned
out 
> to be "cousin of the govenor".

Well at least they got the governor bit right :-))
>
> Some stories do hold a grain of truth, such as descended from French 
> nobility was actually that "name" was the Norman Era lord of the area
and 
> there is a village of the name in France

:-))  I haven't had any like that thankfully.

>> The other connection which both sides also told me about and which I 
>> really >> would bust a gut to claim, is a family connection to Jane 
>> Austen. I nearly fell off my chair when one old dear told me that and 
>> said that she had bought Jane Austen's book.  When I asked which one,
her 
>> response was "You know, the one she wrote.".  I still don't know which
of 
>> Austen's books she has :-))
>
> Lol, sometimes you have to research other things to crack the mystery.
My 
> common problem 10 generations back is that it really need a whole
village 
> to be do***ented to determine if that earlier chain is mine or not. Such

> as were there two Thomas Bakers in the town or just the one and he 
> remarried when the first wife died

Yes, I know what you mean, but it's nice to see that you are fastidious 
about it.  I can't believe some of the unsup****ted crap people are happy
to 
put in their trees.

At least you seem to have got a long way back,  After 20+ years I'm no 
futher back than 6 generations on the furthest line.  Sigh!  I've just 
joined Ancestry to try to sort out my mid 19th C Bucks. Ag Labs.  I've 
virtually done nothing on them for maybe 10 years because I hoped the 
internet would catch up given how far I am from good libraries.  It seems
it 
finally has caught up.
>>
>>
>>>Farmers and gardeners basically, until after 1950s.
>>
>>
>> Snap!  But in additon to Farmer's (and Lace Manufacturers), one lot
were 
>> the dreaded Ag. Labs. and I have had no luck so far in getting very far

>> with them at all.
>
> Unless those Ag labours went to church, then you are kind of stymied.

Tell me about it!

> Even then it can be a mystery. Lol, we can trace our name back to
Somerset 
> and know descendants of the other known child but neither can work out 
> much more. Yet, her family name was described as "all over the church"
at 
> Kingsbury Episcopi. Go figure.

Aaah!  Bloody Somerset! One of my other brick walls has as it's last name 
one "John Smith".  Only I could be so lucky.

But what are you going to do about that brick wall?  Just general research

on the family name, or stop with what you have?