Genealogy Chat

Not sure whether this should be classed as an amazing or amusing find.

Whilst following up the descendants of one of my 3x Great Grandfathers who had 18 children I eventually came across one of his great grandchildren (Mildred Daisy, my second cousin twice removed) who was herself one of 14 children. In 1902 she married a chap in Australia who in 1905 set up his own company, the Ansell Rubber Company with machinery acquired from his employer, Dunlop. Dunlop had decided to discontinue condom manufacture but her husband Eric presumably still saw the need for production of the product to continue. In any event the ploy obviously worked as Mildred and Eric only had 2 children themselves (The last born in 1905) and for a while the Ansell Rubber Company were the largest condom manufacturers in the world.

hi p
well finding my great aunt on ancestry complete with mug shot and criminal records 14 pages of them moostly for prostitutution and stealing the last charge was stealing a bodice she got seven years penal servitude
regards joe

Hiya Persie.

I have a few,but one of my most treasured finds was a meeting between George Washington and my 3x great grandad, Israel Burrow Copley b.1765 a Yorkshire cloth miller.

Israel's father William Copley founded one of the first water powered cloth slub mills in Yorkshire, and sent his son Israel to America to promote his fathers business. He was invited ( by letter ) to visit George Washington to discuss the workings of his fathers mill.

Written in the Diaries of George Washington.

Jan 1788 ( page 266 )
"A Mr. Copley ( a considerable cloth manufacture ) from Leeds in Yorkshire came here in the evening, introduced by letter from Doctr. Mc.Henry of Baltimore. Burrow Copley of Hunslet parish, borough of Leeds,Eng. was among the first cloth makers in the Leeds area to use water-powered machinery to cord and slub wool."

I have a copy of the hand written document.....so a great peice of memrobillia to keep in my FH album.

Tony :-)

Not to worry R...

I see our Gracie's thread on general..

P

Perhaps this is the thread

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.page/board/general_chat/thread/1205603

Just following on from a thread Laine has seen elsewhere - what is the most AMAZING thing you have found in your family history???? I thought that this was interesting and may be interesting to other members to post their 'show stopping finds????

Laine has asked me to put this up as she cannot despite trying and trying get on to GR... I believe some of you do have this difficulty from time to time :-)

'Mine has to be the murder of my g.g.g. aunty by her daughter [matricide??] Her daughter [my 1st cousin 3 times removed] was charged with her murder, but this was reduced to manslaughter on the judge's directions, and she ended up serving a 5 years prison sentence. Lucky girl!!!!! I found out this information totally by accident whilst searching in the newspapers for another family name entirely - and just thought the 'search summary' of names was too much of a co-incidence - when I clicked onto the 'result' I was shocked when I realised that this was my relative!!! How my family must have been shocked at the time!!!'

Remember this is from Laine not from me... But I will post something not amazing more horrifying for her family... so watch this thread..

Persie