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I find out that my great great grandfather was in jail for arson.

My gt grandfather went to prison for beating up his lover (my gt grandmother) - and it would have been for murder if the cause of death had not been pneumonia

My gt gt grandfather died in a fight, hit by his lodger after after hitting my gt gt grandmother in 1857.

My great-great grandmother together with her daughter and baby grandson were transported to Tasmania in 1851 for stealing.

Whilst unable to resist remarking that the most shocking thing about my ancestors is that my paternal grandfather voted Tory in reality I haven't found anything too awful about my ancestors other than the poverty in which they lived.

gardener wrote:My gt grandfather went to prison for beating up his lover (my gt grandmother) - and it would have been for murder if the cause of death had not been pneumonia

and this is my Gt Gt Grandfather too...a nasty piece of work!
still trying to find what happened to his first wife Jane Severns...she seemed to disappear!!

Although not terribly shocking my Great Grandfather Nathan Taylor married Lucretia Round who died young and while she was alive their niece Martha Manger was living with them. She continued living in the house with Nathan after Lucretia's death - they eventually married and had two sons, the eldest of whom was my grandfather.

also found out that i had ancestors in Cameroon from the 1700s