General Chat

Hi everyone,

Just having a plough through the threads and thinking about the questions that people probably wish that they had the chance to get answered.

What's the one question you would like to ask if you had the chance?

hmmm I think I'd like to ask my gg grandfather "did you really go down the mine to check on a pump and were hit by something from above or were you helped on your way (so to speak)! :-)

Can I have two questions....please!!

My grandmother had at least 12 children and for some of them she stated her maiden name as the surname of her step-father and the rest she stated her actual maiden name - why?????

Also, my grandmother was born in gaol and I would love to be able to ask my great-grandmother why she was in there???

Ohthey would be good questions to get answered!

I would like to ask OH's GGG/parents where thay born in Ireland and where they went
after the 1851 census leaving behind there daughter Bridget who by then was married and
OH's Great/grandmother

I, like to ask,who spent my inheritence? :-S

I'd like to ask my great grandmother who fathered her 3 sons, why she changed their surname with no record of a marriage, and why her brother also changed his surname when his sister and nephews did. In short I want to know what my surname should be. :-)

Ouch some of those are interesting!!!

Just shows how 'colourful' some of our relatives were...for some reason I think history portrays the Victorian era as all stiff collared and straight laced...looks like the real world was very different!

I'd also ask my grandmother why she moved her family back to Scotland for teh war when they would have been a lot safer in Melbourne!

I would love to ask my great Uncle Edward if his second wife was a relative as she had the same maiden name as his surname and they lived in the same town. I can't find a connection and it drives me mad :-S

S x

I would like to ask my mother-in-law why she never told my husband anything of his father...and why my father in law has no birth cert even though he was born in London...
and I would love to ask my nan if shes happy..shes been passed 30 yrs and i still love and miss her x

I would like to ask my grandmother who my father's father, was, and (as an aside) if he was also the father of my aunt!!!
My dad did ask his mum who his father was, but was seemingly 'fobbed off' with one word answers, the last being 'Juarez'!!!!
Sadly my gran, dad and aunt are now dead.
Cousins are as clueless as me!!
One name was put forward, but he was a married man, (though a childless marriage) 14 years older than my gran, and a long standing family friend - and gran was only 18 when my dad was born!

Maybe it's my strong morals, but for an older person, who has been around while a child is growing up to then 'take advantage' of them as soon as they're 'of age' gives me the creeps.

I have no problem if they didn't know each other before.

would like to ask my grandma ,who fathered her 2 sons (one was my father),also to ask hubbys grandma who her parents were.

I'd like to ask my maternal grandmother 'Who was the father of my Auntie?'

I'd like to ask my lovely, sweet great-aunt Kit 'Who was the father of your (illegitimate) twins and did he die in WW1'

I'd like to ask my g-g-g-grandfather 'Why did you move from Derbyshire to Gloucestershire, and which town/village did you come from'.

I'd like to ask my g-g-grandfather 'Where did you come from and why did you emigrate from Prussia'.

That will be enough to be going on with :-D

If only we could ask why they hardly ever wrote anything down! :-D