Tuesday, 15 May 2012
Family stuff
Wanted to do a little post about my history ... Ancient History and ancestors and stuff like that. Been looking on family history sites, including some done by my own vastly extended family members and local parish records etc. on my fathers father side and back through to male line we have a confirmed marriage date of 1694, making our tree to go back to approx 1670ish? Think that is a fair enough date ... Only 300 years before me ... Makes my *cough* years fairly insignificant indeed lol having found Grandfer and Granny Guy on the 1881 census and then Grandfers parents going back to his mothers baptism in 1824. The family of granny wasn't so fruitful ... No idea of her parents past at all, I remember my grandfather Bert telling me yet thought his great granny was Scottish but who knows??? I certainly haven't turned anything up from searching parish records the last 3 days!
I have also been compiling from memory and the help of the Leitrim-Roscommon census site, a little about my paternal grandmothers family, her parents and their siblings, haven't got too far with that one either, I need to confirm a few dates and names with my aunts before I have filled in the gaps. Tho gaps should include up to my great great grandparents names on my paternal mothers side.
They were settle people and not travellers or tinkers. So that's in my favour as there are few records of travelling peoples be they travellers, tinkers or Roma, and would be very difficult to hunt down. Not that there were many if any Roma in Ireland at that time, being that the Roma people originated in India and up through northern Africa, the very word gypsy comes from Egyptians, travellers and tinkers were the roaming people of Ireland. I am purely making a point at the genetic and cultural differences that all though we perceive all people who choose not to live a stagnated lifestyle to be traveller/gypsy. That shit awful big fat gypsy whatever, on channel 4 only goes to propagate the myth that they are one and the same people, it also does much to cause unrest between settled and Travelling people of all types, not least of all that the people, any of them, are actually like that! I know its all shite, but your average daily mail/sun reader only believes what their rag tells them ... With shows like this what hope is there for equality, freedom or understanding in the future?????
Glad I've got that off my chest ...
Back to the tree of peoples ...
On my mothers side I have a tree of her mothers side that goes back to mid 1700 and I have got to contact cousins to see what I can gleen from them regarding mothers fathers side as I have no more than a fee names and places less than 100 years oldbut nothing confirmed in census records or anything yet ... It's only been like 3 days!!!! I'm not stressing it yet ;-)
I'm going to join one o them there ancestry sites, not sure which one yet, looking like their are all approx £100 for the year. Until then I shall be making many many more scribbles in my books ... It all became to confusing with one book, so am writing in 2, helps me spread myself about and piss off the kids :-)
In other news I have just received call from a southern asian gentleman calling himself Adam of the home energy something or other, he was not too sure what to say when I called him a liar and that his name wasn't Adam, I asked him if he was Jewish or any son of Abraham ... He wasn't keen on answering ... Funnily enough I feel the same about cold callers.
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