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No she wasn't lost!!
I've recently become interested in my family history. My mother comes from Co Mayo in Ireland. Her mother left Ireland for the USA when she was 17 but returned shortly after, cos her parents found a good man from Belfast for her to marry, John Richardson, my grandfather. And I found Annie on Ellis Island's immigration records.
Here is her passenger record (http://www.ellisisland.org/search/passRecord.asp?MID=11529873230165024096&LNM=BASQUIL&PLNM=BASQUIL&first_kind=1&last_kind=1&TOWN=null&SHIP=null&RF=19&pID=102423110053)
Queenstown became Cork shortly after Irish independence in 1923.
Sounds silly as I never knew her, she died in 1948, but I'm so excited!!
:shock: I have an ongoing research thing which is er...on going. 'Tis rumoured that ancestors on my maternal grandmother's side emigrated from Ireland...I was unaware of that website...cheers Ed :thumbsup: Looks interesting. I do know for fact that ancestors on my dads side went to the states...made contact with a 'remote' cousin some time ago...perhaps it's time to resurrect this project. :-k
timwilky
08-02-07, 07:23 AM
Good on you Ed. I have always been tempted to have a look into my family history. unfortunately when your birth certificate says under the fathers name "Some soldiers" :oops: you don't have a lot to start with.
Mrs Tricky is really into this.
Her great grandfather fought in Africa in WW1.
Her mum cleared out her attic and was going throw a load of stuff out.
Mrs T (being nosey) had a rifle through it first and found an old ammo box full of her great grandfathers war stuff. Its amazing, there's his enlistment a discharge papers, a Vickers machine gun manual.
Old photos of men in his unit (Motor Machine Gun Corps).
Theres photos of the early armoured vehicles they used as well. Rolls Royce cars stripped out and armour plated with a dirty great Vickers gun mounted on the back.
And her mum was just going to put all this in the dustbin ! :shock:
philipMac
08-02-07, 04:19 PM
I got curious about this... so I went over to the Granddad, and asked him about it. He apparently had already done the work, and told me that "I wouldn't be interested".
So... I sort of suggested that I might. And he insisted that it was very dull altogether.
After a period of my quietly pleading with him, he elaborated slightly.
"Rogues and highwaymen of the highest order".
He was genuinely mortified.
I furtively looked about, and asked him to repeat... "We were Highwaymen Philip. Thugs and rogues hanging about robbing passing carriages up North." He whispered this in a very serious way. He told me that I shouldn't search any more, as it would only upset me. :shock:
Damn right I didn't want to do any more research. I might find something that would contraadict this new found fact. This is possibly the most exciting thing that you can tell a 12 year old. I was walking about in silent awe for the next half hour.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7c/Highwayman.jpg
"We were Highwaymen Philip. Thugs and rogues hanging about robbing passing carriages up North."
So you're really a dandy highwayman?
http://tinpan.fortunecity.com/eltonjohn/802/adamant/pics/hghwymn.jpg
philipMac
08-02-07, 04:55 PM
As long as I can wear those fancy buckley shoes and that massive hat and wave those pewter pistols about I am happy.
I would imagine some of those snooty English colonial type girls are only filthy too. And hankering after some scary highwayman action.
And awaaaaay!!!!! Clipity clop clipity clop clipity clop clipity clop
Can only trace my family history (on my dads side) so far back as the Boswell name is a Romany gypsy name :D so birth certificates etc didnt really get recorded, we have mananged to trace back that the name originated in India!! :shock:
Theres even a Gypsy Boswell museum. :D , its one of the oldest Romany gypsy names, so im very proud of it, esp as its a proper gypsy heritage NOT some "traveller" who calls themself a gypsy. :roll:
http://www.boswell-romany-museum.com/index.htm
philipMac
08-02-07, 05:34 PM
If there is one thing us Highwaymen hate, it's Pikeys.
instigator
08-02-07, 05:48 PM
Sounds silly as I never knew her, she died in 1948, but I'm so excited!!
Not at all.
My Uncles hobby is to research his family history. He's been doing it the last 30 years and it's amazing how enthusiastic he is about it.
If there is one thing us Highwaymen hate, it's Pikeys.
Dont you DARE call me a pikey!! :evil: :evil: :x
Im from a proper Romany gyspy heritage, not some low life who jumped on the "Dont have to pay council tax etc as im a traveller bandwagon" who nicks stuff. :roll:
Filipe M.
08-02-07, 05:56 PM
If there is one thing us Highwaymen hate, it's Pikeys.
Dont you DARE call me a pikey!! :evil: :evil: :x
Im from a proper Romany gyspy heritage, not some low life who jumped on the "Dont have to pay council tax etc as im a traveller bandwagon" who nicks stuff. :roll:
Oi Sir Philip "Highwayman" Mac, I'd say the lady is a bit, erm, p*ssed at you! :lol:
philipMac
08-02-07, 05:58 PM
If there is one thing us Highwaymen hate, it's Pikeys.
Dont you DARE call me a pikey!! :evil: :evil: :x
Im from a proper Romany gyspy heritage, not some low life who jumped on the "Dont have to pay council tax etc as im a traveller bandwagon" who nicks stuff. :roll:
:lol:
We Highwaymen are a notoriously insensitive lot. Yet quick with the quip and / or pun when holding up ladies at pistol point.
Phil, a few of Paw's relatives want a word...
http://ffmedia.ign.com/reviews/multimedia/snatch-pitt-flemyng.jpg
Phil if i could find a decent pic of adam ant... :lol:
tigersaw
08-02-07, 10:51 PM
http://upload6.postimage.org/163627/adam_and_the_ants_1.jpg (http://upload6.postimage.org/163627/photo_hosting.html)
wyrdness
08-02-07, 11:11 PM
Phil if i could find a decent pic of adam ant... :lol:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38193000/jpg/_38193770_ant300.jpg
:D
Peter Henry
08-02-07, 11:18 PM
My family history is indeed a shameful tale and one not easilly shared. My mother too was from good CORK stock also but due to domestic problems was shipped over to the Manchester area in her teens.
Is it any wonder that I am mentally scarred Razor? :?
philipMac
09-02-07, 12:20 AM
My family history is indeed a shameful tale and one not easilly shared. My mother too was from CORK ...
Ah Jesus Peter. I had no idea it was that bad. :shock:
My family history is indeed a shameful tale and one not easilly shared. My mother too was from CORK ...
Ah Jesus Peter. I had no idea it was that bad. :shock:
Cork is feckin' lovely, the craic is mighty down there in the sunny south east...
philipMac
09-02-07, 04:42 AM
My family history is indeed a shameful tale and one not easilly shared. My mother too was from CORK ...
Ah Jesus Peter. I had no idea it was that bad. :shock:
Cork is feckin' lovely, the craic is mighty down there in the sunny south east...
Actually Cork is excellent. I lived there for a bit. On an island next to the one Jeremy Irons bought, near Cape Clear.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/media/sherkin237.jpg
Probably the place where I want to die (as an old man) :)
As long as those idiot Murphys stay away from me.
Jeremy Irons used to come over and have pints at the local, The Jolly Rodger. No pubs on his Island. He was alright, that Jeremy. He bought us starving kids pints one night. And sang songs with us.
He drew the line at joining in with our Velocoraptor impressions though. We felt we looked quite fierce, but if you were picky you might think we looked like drunk kids with gimpy arms and an awkward gait.
Aw Philip. I can see now why grandmother emigrated. But why the hell did she go back :-k :wink:
I've done a little bit of research into my family name.
Descended from Norman nobility apparently 8)
the_runt69
09-02-07, 11:12 AM
Who was the **** that mentioned Adam Ant, have had "Stand And Deliver" running through my head all night at work, and I hate the song at the best of times
sorry for the derail
philipMac
09-02-07, 04:05 PM
That would be Razor.
Razor is just wizard at wrecking everyone's buzz. :roll:
She doesn't even know where Cork is, and she was there. South East. Pfft. South West darling.
South *west*.
Razor is just wizard at wrecking everyone's buzz. :roll:
:takeabow:
this website is interesting if you want to know the origins of your surname
http://www.spatial-literacy.org/UCLnames/Surnames.aspx
Who was the **** that mentioned Adam Ant, have had "Stand And Deliver" running through my head all night at work, and I hate the song at the best of times
sorry for the derail
*looks at runt and thinks about slapping him... :lol: *
Twas ME!! :lol: :P
the_runt69
09-02-07, 11:37 PM
Who was the **** that mentioned Adam Ant, have had "Stand And Deliver" running through my head all night at work, and I hate the song at the best of times
sorry for the derail
*looks at runt and thinks about slapping him... :lol: *
Twas ME!! :lol: :P
I'll take my punishment like a man [-o<
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