Genealogy Chat

Just a quick reply (am not supposed to be here!) Gail - Lancashire Lou is a poster on these boards!! In fact she has posted on this thread, but is currently named ''Lou .'' I suppose we are probably all related if we only knew how....if we went back far enough........! Back Later Merry

My family were born one end of Liverpool and my elder sister moved in a new house in the other end in 1999.I have recently found out my g/grandfathers brother John lived in the same street in 1899 she lived in 74 and he lived in 72, my other g/grandfather lived in Rachel st my sister has a daughter rachel.And the spookiest is ALL my male relatives right across the board were Liverpool dockers working on the mersey, and my brother fell in the salthouse dock when he was 7 years old and drowned. MOE!

My FATHER'S grandmother,Ann Coates, was born on Portsmouth, Hampshire in 1865. In the 1891 census living next door to my MOTHER'S great-grandmother in Sunderland, Durham, is a Stephen Coates born 1829 in Portsmouth! I have yet to prove the connection but I'm convinced it's there. Angela

My grandmothers grandmother married TWO John Hortons. The second john Horton was 17 years junior to the 1st one and herself. (she must be like me and like toyboys lol) She also married another John but his surname was Poole.(father of my g.grandmother) J.Poole was the marriage in the middle. Bet she had no probs with whispering sweet nothings in thier ears! John John John LOL Gerri.

I found that my Granny was born Aug 2nd and my Grandson was born on the same date 125 years later. Germaine x

Hi Merry My grandma made a tree 30 odd years ago, so I knew I had a Caiger (her grandad), but had them down as Londoners. I moved 240 miles away from Lincs to Bognor (to work at Butlins, knew no-one here), and last Nov got onto this site. Got a Caiger reply within an hour, he sent me more details on the Caigers and... they come from Bognor and surrounding villages! So the moral of the story is you can never escape family by moving! xx Jen

Found a 2nd cousin on genes and we found we were born a day apart in the same maternity hospital. Its possible our Mums could have been in th same ward. I never knew much about my paternal nans siblings as she was a very austere lady who thought children should be seen & not heard. He was born to one of nans younger sisters. Shirley

My Great Grandfather, Sydney Norton was born in 1896 at 88 London Road, Soutwark, London, 101 years later I went to South Bank University Business School which is at 88 London Road Southwark London. I only found out when I started tracing the tree a couple of years ago. I was also born on the same day as another of my great Grandfathers. As for having the same birthdays the odds of it happening are surprisingly small. Out of a random group of 23 people you have an evens chance of having 2 people born on the same day. A report was done on it using Football teams and the referee some years back. The reason for it is that out of 23 people you have 256 different pairings of those people. If you take the 30 random people the odds are better than evens.

I sent a message to a Louise Flynn from these boards asking if we had a connection. She replied with....YES!......your my Muver!!!! It was MY OWN daughter LOL (I diddnt know she was a member) Silly Mummy Gerri lol

Oh LOL Gerri!! brilliant!! Merry

My one sent me and my boyfriend into a panic. A few years ago we decided to have a barbecue for our parents to meet. Everything was going hunky dory until his mum and my dad got chatting. His mum said I had an auny Glad who married a chap called Gerry from where you come from, my dad said that's funny I had an uncle Gerry who married a woman called Glad. By now our ears had pricked up. It turns out we are related but only by marriage thank god. It's just as well, as we are getting married next Saturday. My second one is We arranged our wedding before I started to do my family tree. Our wedding is on 29/10/05 the same day that my Ggrandad was born and the day he died.

Thanks for clearing up the 'Lou' question Merry. And here I thought Lou was someone notoriously infamous. LOL ;O) Gail ps Hello to Lou.

My married name is Anne Fraser ( I must get round to making something up.) Any way the day I got married twenty-seven years ago today a second cousin of mine married an Anne Fraser so the family gained one and lost one. We hardly knew one another so it was a complete coincidence.

I found out TODAY that my great great great grandfather is buried about 200 yards from my home! Ive been living here for 20 years!

Whilst researching my mothers side of the family I have found that her ancestors have lived no less than 5 times next door to a family by my married name Ball in various parts of the country. I do not know yet whether there is any connection but makes you wonder whether or not you are destined to meet some-one.

WOW everyone! Happy Anniversary, Anne! Merry

Loads of people in same branch of tree share the date of birth as the 9th February (different years) Kim

I'm still trying to prove this but I believe that I am related to 3 of my first cousins from both my maternal and paternal sides. Debby

I recently discovered that the births of two of my female ancestors were registered on the same day by the same registrar. The families did not know each other as far as we know at that time but many years later one of those babies married the cousin of the other infant. George

Hi Merry My only coincidence so far Is that my father's grt grt grandfather used to live in the same street as my dad and my dad's grt grandmother was born their too! He also used to run a pub that my father and grandfather drank in nearly a 100 years later!! Kaz :o))