General Chat

Hi Amanda

My daughter wasn't put off, I was awfully shaken though! Maybe I should have a passenger brake installed:-)
I think I will see if I can organize a safety hazards course, cos my nerves cannot take too much of that! Its happened twice, now:-(

I hope you have a lovely day:-)

Carole xx

Carole ....I hope your nerves calm back down soon . I learnt to drive years ago but never took to it , it made me feel physically sick every time I got behind the wheel : (( I hope your daughter doesn't frighten you again like that .

I'm off to the garden to have a tidy up , no singing frogs here Pam , they are all hibernating now I should think .

Hey Carole, how do you think your nerves are going to stand up to the number of hours she has to put in before being able to even go for her licence. It's certainly a far cry from the days when I got mine. Went to the friendly policeman at the station, got the learners permit and the L plates. Hooked them on and started driving. Only had to have a licensed driver in the front passenger seat. Then, when you thought you were ready you went back to the friendly policeman at the station and he asked you 3 or 4 questions, you drove him around the block a couple of times and voila!! you got your license.

I hope you will all excuse me but I'm going to leave you for now. Just got some bad news. A friend of mine in the US has passed away. 4 year fight with cancer. My 90 year old aunt died last Friday which was a blessing but still upsetting. And I also learned today that my dear friend whom I've known for over 45 years has been institutionalised in Canada with dementia. Doesn't even know who her husband is. Bit of a stressful day.

Think I"ll go to bed and bury myself in a book.

Ciao for now,
Pam.

Gosh, what a lot of people around.
I remember the stamping on the floor braking as well Carole, I used to take both of mine out to practice when they were learning and it is nerve racking. The driving instructors have dual controls and can take over when necessary.

I don't do hats, well unless it is my battered old straw sun hat and I don't think that will be quite up to the occasion

I don't know how you get the energy to do all of that work Pam, I am happy to be retired and only do my voluntary stuff.

I was sorting out my mum's ancestors in Geelong Carole,
A few brothers were given money by their local Methodist church to pay the passage in 1848, they went to Ballarat, but soon moved onto Geelong where they set up the Wood Brothers timber yard in Little Ryrie street . A couple of them returned home with money and built a new chapel. The other one came back, married his cousin and went back out in 1858 with his new wife and another four nephews and a niece. There were several dissolutions of business partnerships and new ones being set up.
They all married and had families of course, then in the late 1800's a new lot went out to join them and they all married. So I reckon I must be related to half of Geelong by now.

Oh dear Pam, I am so sorry about all of your bad news, no wonder you are having a stressful day.That makes three things which just proves the old saying about bad news coming in three's I suppose.I hope you manage to sleep well.
it is lunchtime here,so I had better stir myself.

Good morning/evening all. Still dull and drizzly here - it's obviously rained all night. The sun doesn't stay for long:-(

Pam - sorry to hear your bad news. I'm sure you'll be glad to see the end of this year. It's been dreadful for you.

Linda - I like Geelong and have been there a number of times. My very limited family history in Australia has been well researched by a distant family member. Only one small group went to South Australia.

I'm always fascinated with this particular branch of my family tree. In 1765 two people married in a tiny village in Devon and from that union grew an enormous family. Some of the family stayed in the village – one group went to Cornwall and made a small fortune and some of those drifted up to Liverpool and the family became master mariners – some quite famous. My direct line went to London and ended up in Leeds. The descendants are spread throughout the world – Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. I would like to think that somewhere that my 6 x great grandparents are shaking their heads at the number of descendants there are from 7 children.

S x

Good Morning Sue,

It's been dull here all day too, and wet and windy at times. Got soaked this morning walking from the car to the supermarket as I couldn't park anywhere near.

Reading your post about your ancestors movements, it always amazes me just how mobile people were in the 18th and 19th century. Travel wasn't easy as it is now,and the time factor must have been a serious consideration for them. It seems the incentive for most was to seek work where ever it was to be found.
I've found in my own research that the ones that went to other areas invariably returned to their roots eventually. The exception being those that emigrated from the UK to America, they seemed to have made good, and stayed there.

Tec.

Hello Sue and Tec.
I heard a very interesting radio program once about how the bicycle had revolutionised courting. in the good old days, those in service only had one half day off a week, so couldn't get out of the village. With the advent of the bicycle, they could pedal further, so could marry someone from further afield

Hello Tec:-))

It would seem that none of this lot returned to the little village - at least not to live. The mariners who went to Liverpool married into seafaring families and appear to have prospered going by the family photos of very well dressed people. One family group lived in a street just off the famous Penny Lane. My mother who thought she was a Yorkshire woman from way back was amazed to find that her maternal ancestry came from Devon.

S x

That is like OH sue, he was proud of his Yorkshire roots, but his family actually come form Berkshire.One of them was a game keeper and seems to have moved to Cheshire to a large estate their, presumably offered a job after his employers took him for a little jaunt there. He married a girl who had never set foot outside her village near Whitby. I assume he must have been up there shooting the grouse. He took her back to Cheshire, but then they came back up to Yorkshire, she must have missed her mum.

Good Evening Linda,

I wonder if that's where the expression "On yer bike" began lol.
I did my early courting by lambretta scooter, but not with the Duchess.

Sue, One of OHs ancestors left Wales for Philadelphia leaving seven children and a wife behind. Despite repeated requests for his wife to join him later, she never would, and he never returned. This was in 1868.
I have copies of his letters - rather sad.



Tec.

ooh Tec, do tell. Did the Duchess insist on a Rolls Royce?

I didn't have any transport to convey the Duchess as I was at sea and didn't need a car. Our first car was a clapped out old Morris that burned more oil than petrol, but to us it was a Rolls Royce lol.

Tec.

OH's first car was a Ford Poplar, he had it when we were at uni, it was a death trap, it often broke down in the middle of the traffic,still it must have impressed me because I married him

Sue, where are you, get yourself in here and sit on your hands lol

I remember the Ford Polar - great little car. Those old cars were great fun. When something fell of you just stuck or tied it back on.
That Morris we had the wipers didn't work, so I rigged up a device whereby when it rained the Duschess could operate them from the the dashboard by turning a little knob backwards and forwards.
And virtually no brakes.

Tec.

We had a couple of old cars before we could afford something decent. I well remember the look of suspicion on my father's face when we explained that the car had broken down and that was why I was home late:-)) Well that was our story anyway.....

I am sitting on my hands Linda - or trying to.

S x

Good evening/morning all. Dull but dry here. No sign of rain (yet).

Linda - are FMP expecting you to pay two separate subscriptions if you join both UK and Oz? Have you tried logging into the Oz site, using your UK login? That's what happens with GR for me. One login does both and either address takes me to the UK site, but FMP might be set up differently.

Tec - it's because of situations such as you mention, that a lot of bigamy took place. Men would emigrate, get a job and send for the family - but if the wife refused to go, the husband re-married in the new country. I might have one in my own tree, and I have heard enough of it in other people's research to feel that it was quite common.

Why are you sitting on your hands Sue? it sounds most uncomfortable.

Tec.

Good Morning Berona,

I should imagine a lot of men would re marry bigamously (that word looks so wrong lol) if they were in a new country and the wife refused to join them.
I have one transported to Australia leaving a wife, but appears re-married with two years in Australia.

Tec.