Genealogy Forum UK

Hi

Been tinkering with my other half's tree and I'm feeling rather depressed - she's descended from an illegitimate son of one of Bonnie Prince Charlie's supporters; on another strand she has members of the peerage; rear admirals; magistrates; and the like.

And what have I got - agricultural labourers; grooms; paper cutters; bedstead painters; and the like.

To paraphrase a great Australian "Why is genealogy so unkind?"

Mind you, if I was truly desperate, I can claim my 5th cousin once removed:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/01/us/fr ... gewanted=1

Pudsey to Howard wrote:Hi

Been tinkering with my other half's tree and I'm feeling rather depressed - she's descended from an illegitimate son of one of Bonnie Prince Charlie's supporters; on another strand she has members of the peerage; rear admirals; magistrates; and the like.

And what have I got - agricultural labourers; grooms; paper cutters; bedstead painters; and the like.

To paraphrase a great Australian "Why is genealogy so unkind?"

Mind you, if I was truly desperate, I can claim my 5th cousin once removed:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/01/us/fr ... gewanted=1

Remember it is not the title and position that makes great people but how they conduct themselves! YOu only have to look at history to know that many a gentleman/woman was no gentleman/woman !!!

Agreed MG!

Just finished watching the Tudors and goodness me the amount of children born on the wrong side of the sheets!


It's not where you start from it's where you finish
(there's a song there)

I remember someone years ago going on about old money and new money
wot a load of B***

money is money!
and it doesn't solve things but it does help!

Be proud of your ancestry
be proud of your roots
and ensure that those young shoots of yours get all the love and nurture they need

An Aussie worrying about having Sirs and Madams in his tree!!

Anybody who survived Australia in the 19th century and made a go of it deserves far more respect than some tosser who inherited a title.

Some of my favorite individuals in my tree (which is just over 12000 people) are convicts who were the lowest form of life in the "Mother Country" and ended up as well respected citizens in Australia.

I am proud of my English relatives. In the Black Country especially, I have found very few divorces, no major crimes and a love for their country that can be seen by how quickly they signed up for service in both world wars.

They worked hard and they supported their families and that makes me proud.

Gadzooks Mr Dodd if she was related to a convict that would be straw that broke camel's back!

Like most colonials she woul like to be related to one of those errant souls who were transported to the Antipodes but to date the closest we've got is that she is related to a member of the 2/40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of the Foot who came to Australia in 1824 and chose to settle in Tasmania when his time was up.


She doesn't take too much interest in genealogy except when it involves shame and scandal in the family [another great topic for a song].

And as I said I've still got my 5th cousin once removed who was the subject of two books and two mini-series.

There was a time that finding a convict in your family was about the worst disaster imagined. Now people get upset if they don't have one

I have 6 convicts in my tree (that I know of). That makes me Aussie aristocracy, doesn't it?