General Chat

I've been taking advantage of the summer hols to do a bit of wandering in my ancestor's footsteps. I am amazed how many coincidences I've found. For example, my Norfolk grandfather when he first came to London lodged in a street the other side of the road from the street where my husband's gt grandparents lived. My mum's father came from a small village in the Cotswolds - just a few miles away over the county border is the village where my dad's maternal grandfather lived. My mum's Cornish family lived in a house called Claremont. Her Gloucestershire grandfather (other side of her family)died in a house in Aylesbury called Claremont. The road one street away from where she lives in Surrey is called...Claremont. My Norfolk gt grandfather died in a house a stone's throw away from the cemetery where my husband's gt grandmother is buried. Anyone else found any spooky links? nell

hi ive just read your "spooky" tale and thought i would tell you about mine, I was adopted and never knew my birth family until 1987. when i met my sister, it turns out hubby and i got married on her birthday, and also i had only just had a miscarriage, and i told her the baby id lost, if it had been a girl we were going to call her Lee-Anne Jessica, Lee-Anne because the first part of our house name was Lee..Anne becasue thats my middle name, and jessica because I like the name, turned out her daughter(my Niece) is called leanne jessica and jessica is a family name.

On the 1881 census at 15 Sandhills Lane in Whitehaven was a posh family called Nesbitt, the sons of which were accountants - one became Town Clerk of Douglas (Isle of Man) and later City Secretary of Sydney NSW. In the town was also a family of Nesbitts who were dock labourers and miners My grandmother (a widow) married someone called Nesbitt (a miner from the second family) in 1948. In 1953 they moved from the small pub which they kept (he still worked down t'pit) to 15 Sandhills Lane! If there was a connection between the two families, I'm yet to find it.