Skeletons in the Genealogical Cupboard

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I've discovered that a great aunt was in Holloway for stealing a rug from a shop in Oxford Street.

We have a Campbell in our family (we were always on the other side)

And, (don't tell my dad), an Irish Catholic about five generations back (not seemly for a presbyterian glaswegian)

[KalamityKel]

I've got Archer's, Hawkins' and Whitfield's in my family... oooooo!

[mockney piers]

I recently discovered that my Great Great Grandma was Welsh!?!?!?!?!?!

[Nero]

And I found out that my nana's grandfather was from Cornwall, by the name of Snell, which gave me the idea of learning Cornish. Hmmm. Nero

[Brendan]

My mother?s maternal grandparents were English.

And protestant no less!

[Ant]

One of my more distant ancestors was a bloke called John Bradshaw. He presided over the trial of Charles I and was the first to sign his death warrant.

He died before the restoration, but they exhumed his body and chopped him up for good measure. I think they may have stuck his head on a spike too. Shall have a hunt around to see what else I can find.

Edit: OK, seems the chopping up and head-on-a-spike were probably down to my imagination. The first three sources here agree that he was disinterred and plonked in a gibbet in Tyburn. Wikipedia has him hung, drawn and quartered though.

[mockney piers]

Gosh, my ancestor was his contemporary. John Evelyn, who watched the beheading.

He was one of the first tree huggers, wrote about the dangers of pollution in London about 400 years before the clean-air act, watched the great fire, sometime diarist, epistler, carouser, keeper of the privy seal, author, philosopher and theologist.

A lot to live up to frankly. Darn.

[david_carnell]

My grandfather was baptised as Plymouth Bretheren - which probably means I shouldn't be talking to any of you.

No idea why.

[Michael Palaeologus]

I am my own third cousin.

Arent I?

Oh yes.

[citizenED]

*Bob*'s my uncle.

[KalamityKel]

:o

[annaj]

The man holding the crown was my great, great uncle...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/03/uk_queen0s_coronation_2_june_1953/img/3.jpg

[Dulwich_ Park_ Fairy]

The man holding the crown was my great, great uncle...

What, in the top left corner? Why's he wearing a dress?

[citizenED]

citizenED Wrote:

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> *Bob*'s my uncle.

O, and Char1ie's my aunt

[annaj]

Dulwich_ Park_ Fairy Wrote:

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> The man holding the crown was my great, great

> uncle...

>

> What, in the top left corner? Why's he wearing a

> dress?

Oh, hadn't noticed her, how odd!

No, the one in the middle with the big crown, although he is kind of wearing a dress too.

[Dulwich_ Park_ Fairy]

Oh, hadn't noticed her, how odd!

No, the one in the middle with the big crown, although he is kind of wearing a dress too.

I'm more interested in the other one. What on earth is she doing? Do you think she's been naughty?

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Every peer has to hold their coronet above their heads and plonk it down when queenie is crowned. I shall curtsey next time I see you Anna.

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

That's wierd. Looks like she's part of some strange pagan ritual.

[mockney piers]

She also looks like Petula Clark.

[LizzygotDizzy]

Oh and there was me thinking it was Julie Andrews! on the set of The Sound of Music! somehow magically superimposed! lol!

[Brendan]

ChavWivaLawDegree Wrote:

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> That's wierd. Looks like she's part of some

> strange pagan ritual.

that's essentially what it is.