tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1246763419709722582.post157683430872179468..comments2023-10-26T10:29:19.371+01:00Comments on Skev's BLOG : Pan-species Listing, Moths, Birds, Stuff: Who Do You Think You Are?Skevhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05601888498478097564noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1246763419709722582.post-42164020142881046172014-09-01T23:45:36.609+01:002014-09-01T23:45:36.609+01:00Great stuff - now that's a proper way to trace...Great stuff - now that's a proper way to trace family, quaffing in bars where ancestors had an ale or two!Skevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05601888498478097564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1246763419709722582.post-8942870201526371382014-09-01T23:28:20.952+01:002014-09-01T23:28:20.952+01:00Fascinating stuff.
I traced my paternal line back ...Fascinating stuff.<br />I traced my paternal line back to the same period. Before that it becomes very arduous and very expensive.<br />My father was the first of my line to move away from the areas each side of the Kent/Sussex border and the first to take up an occupation other than agricultural work, although that's where he started.<br />On my Grandfathers birth certificate in the "fathers occupation" box, it states that my Great GF was a peasant.<br />He signed it with a cross.<br />When I returned from Australia after several years, I settled in Bedfordshire and took a job with a local electrical engineering company, and I was sent to a small village in Sussex named Helingly on an install that lasted for around 3 weeks.<br />There was a single old pub there called the Golden Martlet where I quaffed a merry pint or three. Later, after doing the family the trace, I found that from about 1750 to the late 1800's, 3 generations of my ancestors worked on the surrounding 3 farms.<br />There were no other pubs in the area and it dawned on me there was little doubt that I had been propping up the bar where GGGGGGGFather was quaffing some 250 years ago.<br />Quite a nice thought<br /> Trent Duvalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03375081875501120850noreply@blogger.com