Thread: Post your Ancestors!

Originally Posted by BMKal

From what I thought the reputation of a sailor was ...................... I would have thought that you'd be struggling to find any evidence.

No, BM, the "other" reputation... a girl in every port......
My mum who used to travel on board, reckons there was always a bag of letters waiting at every stop.

I've got brothers from differant Mothers, and the various, ah, branches of his tree are spread over the globe. !

Have'nt dared to delve too deeply into Mother's past. (Irish from County Cork)

Funniest thing, in light of everyone elses forebears....mine may well have 'assisted' in their passage, there being heaps of Rozzers and military amongst them

Evidence a-plenty, just found out that the old goat adopted a daughter when in his 60's...

There was a relation of mine like that a while back. He travelled a lot for work. Family research revealed he had four separate families scattered around Tasmania! He must have had more money than me.

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2 notables for me

Stan McCabe - Bradman era cricketer
Attila the Hun.

Originally Posted by loneranger

I was born in Jersey and my dad grew up there. I asked him if he knew the name Pinel and said a family of that name lived a few doors down from him.

Yep, they'll be cousins of some sort. There are Pinels in Australia, all descendants of my Great Grandfather, and another bunch in Canada, with a few in the States. The rest stayed in the Jersey Islands. There's a manor house called Pinel Manor somewhere there, but I've never been.

Someone did a genetic test on some members of the family, and apparently we've got a high incidence of a rare gene that only exists in the Basque people from northern spain. Apparently no one knows the history of these people, as they predate the Celts in Spain, and speak a language unrelated to any other known language. Murderous terrorists the lot of us, too

My ancestors were named Macgillonie and left a town called Strone in Scotland then arrived in Sydney in 1838 with a different name.

Originally Posted by ugu80

My ancestors were named Macgillonie and left a town called Strone in Scotland then arrived in Sydney in 1838 with a different name.

Normally it's to escape persecution from the English, (The Irish did this also)running from the authorities or easier to spell by the authorities when processing apon arrival

A lot of Irish, Scottish names were mispelt back then also, the accent or because they couldn't spell.

Baz.

one of my maternal grandmothers great uncles was hung by the english for something related to the ira.

his brother committed suicide to dodge being arrested by them in outback qld a day or so after my grandmother was delivered in a tent beside the railway tracks just out of longreach.

other than that all pretty dull and boring i believe...