2025 doing something new / different
Veggie Offline
Super Pest Controller
#98
Visited a churchyard and looked at the gravestones. My great grandmother and her very young son were buried there in the 1890s, but there's no grave marker so I don't know where they are. I doubt that they had enough money to pay for a memorial anyway.
My great grandfather was a coachman, driving carriages for a household at a big house (now a hotel) a couple of miles up the road from where I live. My grandfather was born there. From there, they moved to another household/farm, which, amazingly, was at the other end of the road where I live. Until I started tracing my family history, I had no idea that they were ever in this area - they moved from Gloucestershire to South Wales.
Sadly, my great grandmother died, giving birth, leaving her husband with 3 young children to care for. It was all too much for him and he arranged for the children to be cared for by his sister, a staunch Salvation Army member, who lived in Cheltenham. My grandfather didn't fancy this at all so, when Auntie Edith came to collect the children, he ran away and hid. She returned to Cheltenham with 2 children.
Great grandfather  also disappears, and lost touch with his family.
Grandfather found work on the canalboats, and was taken in by a bargeman and his family. I don't remember him, he died when I was 2 but my Dad had lots of stories to tell about life on the canal bank.
I find graveyards fascinating - looking at the different styles of monument and the inscriptions. How they change over the centuries. Its an easy way to lose a few hours, just wandering around, enjoying the peace and quiet.
The Moneyless Chicken says:- 
Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.
[-] The following 2 users Like Veggie's post:
  • JJB, Small chilli
Reply



Messages In This Thread
RE: 2025 doing something new / different - by JJB - 05-01-2025, 02:12 PM
RE: 2025 doing something new / different - by JJB - 05-01-2025, 02:14 PM
RE: 2025 doing something new / different - by JJB - 06-01-2025, 10:44 AM
RE: 2025 doing something new / different - by JJB - 06-01-2025, 07:43 PM
RE: 2025 doing something new / different - by JJB - 18-01-2025, 12:01 AM
RE: 2025 doing something new / different - by JJB - 18-01-2025, 10:24 AM
RE: 2025 doing something new / different - by JJB - 22-03-2025, 11:30 AM
RE: 2025 doing something new / different - by JJB - 22-03-2025, 12:40 PM
RE: 2025 doing something new / different - by JJB - 24-03-2025, 09:28 AM
RE: 2025 doing something new / different - by JJB - 26-03-2025, 09:50 AM
RE: 2025 doing something new / different - by JJB - 17-04-2025, 09:28 AM
RE: 2025 doing something new / different - by JJB - 17-04-2025, 09:30 AM
RE: 2025 doing something new / different - by JJB - 18-04-2025, 09:42 AM
RE: 2025 doing something new / different - by JJB - 18-04-2025, 10:45 AM
RE: 2025 doing something new / different - by JJB - 18-04-2025, 01:01 PM
RE: 2025 doing something new / different - by JJB - 10-05-2025, 10:45 AM
RE: 2025 doing something new / different - by JJB - 10-05-2025, 10:42 AM
RE: 2025 doing something new / different - by JJB - 10-05-2025, 10:54 AM
RE: 2025 doing something new / different - by Veggie - 15-05-2025, 05:20 PM
RE: 2025 doing something new / different - by JJB - 15-05-2025, 08:59 PM



Users browsing this thread:
1 Guest(s)



Theme © iAndrew 2018 - Forum software by © MyBB .