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It's interesting that most peoplelook until tey think they havea connection to someone super famous, or fabulous.
Few people will tell you of any whores, crooks, gangsters, murderers, servants, slaves etc in their family tree....... but it's among those type of people where most of the REALLY interesting stories can be had.
You forgot to mention politicians or they are in some of the above groups :DQuote:
Originally Posted by VladTepes
Well I can understand people hiding that !
Western Australia was the last convict settlement and they are still in charge of government and business over there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chucaro
I don't know what the hell you're talking about? This is Australia... just about everyone is descended from a convict somewhere along the line. Only some were convicts more recently than others.Quote:
Originally Posted by VladTepes
My lot on dads side are polish/prussian,scandinavian and english.Mums side are english,scots,eir-ires-IRISH.;)One got a free trip here in 1832:)Oh,and i reckon most of us with british blood in our veins could probably add a touch of roman."What have the romans ever done for us!!"monty python:p
Going back a bit further than the chicken thieves that got us here, my family has been around Galway in Ireland since about 662. In 1520 they built Dunguaire Castle which sits on the shore of Galway Bay. Oh how the mighty fall.
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Originally Posted by VladTepes
My mum has a really interesting family tree. She thought they were all upstanding citizens until she started researching it. :p My dad recently found out that his auntie was really his Grandmother.
On the subject of famous family members I have a distant cousin who played EPL for Reading and is still playing for them. I also have another cousin from the same family who is a politician in Jersey as was his father. There is also a building named after him.
My brother is also quite well-known in NT due to his business.
My Great Great Grandfather John McGuire was Ben Halls brother in law, they married sisters, and John was always close to the action. Luckily he had his life story published. His accounts of early Sydney and bushranger days are quite detailed though he was also regarded as quite the story teller.
He is attributed with writing the folk song Streets of Forbes:
Come all of you Lachlan men
and a sorrowful tale i'll tell,concerning of a hero bold
who through misfortune fell,
His name it was Ben Hall, a man of high renown,
Who was hunted from his station, and like a dog shot down.
Three years he roamed the roads, and he showed the traps some fun,
One thousand pounds was on his head, with Gilbert and John Dunn.
Ben parted from his comrades, the outlaws did agree,
To give away bushranging and to cross the briny sea.
Ben went to Goobang Creek, and that was his downfall
For riddled like a sieve was the valiant Ben Hall,
'Twas early in the morning upon the fifth of May
That the seven police surrounded him as fast asleep they lay.
Bill Dargin he was chosen to shoot the outlaw dead,
The troopers then fired madly and they filled him full of lead,
They rolled him in his blanket and strapped him to his prad,
And they led him through the streets of Forbes, to show the prize they had.
I only got back to 1847 in UK tracing my Fathers Mothers line. It got a bit fuzzy pre civil registration (1837). I did enjoy looking at the Census returns though. The form had a category of "Idiot" and "Imbecile". I couldn't work out the difference. Maybe I would have been one or the other?! My Fathers Mother was born in Whitechapel, East End of London in 1881 so maybe she walked past Jack The Ripper at some point.
Maybe in an effort to catch him they could have replaced the "Idiot" category with a "Ripper" category for the 1891 Census.