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The worst ever stories you've ever heard about your family
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Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Thank you.
I only found this out after dad died and I was going through grandad's papers, which dad never touched.
KnittyNorah
Über Member
- Location
- The Frozen North (of England)
I have an ancestor who was co-founder of a very active and forward-thinking branch of the Methodist Church, in which women were welcome to preach, lead services etc - all this in the early 19th century. I am proud of the tradition of 'strong women', and their encouragement, in that branch of the family. I think the men had to be exceptionally strong too, in order to not merely 'allow' it but to encourage it. So not a bad story, but a bit unusual - and I'm an atheist like my parents before me, so my ancestor didn't leave any sort of lasting heritage in his own family!
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Hover Fly
Lazy so and so
- Location
- Besides the lake, beneath the trees
Mother was a stewardess on the Atlantic liners before the war, she met and married a fairly rich business man, quite a few years older than her. He died in suspicious circumstances towards the end of the forties, and there being no will, mother got the lot, tens of thousands, when a house could be bought for hundreds. She blew the lot on travel, fast cars and boats.
- Location
- the post-brexit wasteland
I have the reverse experience. I remember tutting and thinking 'what a moron' when labour mp fiona onasanya was done for trying to dodge a speeding ticket. she lost her seat and did some time I think.
turns out that she's related by marriage to my dad's brother. he died last year and the funeral was on zoom. onasanya was on the call, but not on video; just an image of a book she'd written about her 'experience'…
turns out that she's related by marriage to my dad's brother. he died last year and the funeral was on zoom. onasanya was on the call, but not on video; just an image of a book she'd written about her 'experience'…
- Location
- London
cripes - I didn't know you could sell advertising rights at funerals.
T4tomo
Legendary Member
We discovered whilst looking at my Mum's side family tree, that a couple of generations back from my grandmother (who was still alive at the time we were researching (born 1912 - died 2018 as an aside) that one of the ancestors had fathered in his 60's or 70's. I think the original wife had died quite young and he'd subsequently married his "housekeeper" who was 30-40 years his junior! Gran Nelly verified it all, as we initially thought the dates in the parish records were out"
