Ancestry discoveries
The ancestry website has free access to their records this weekend, so I decided to have a look for my family.
It seems that my father is from a long line of illiterate hand loom weavers in the linen trade, in Barnsley in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and on my mother's side there is a bigamist milkman and then a dead end as no one seems to have had a father, despite all the evidence to the contrary.
However - after looking up a few records of deaths it looks as though I am from sturdy stock - I could not look up many as there are so many dead babies listed - there were my ancestors, living into their 70s and 80s and then so many with the same surname and a 0 after their name.
Anne the Pleater :ootd:
I presume to dictate to no man what he shall eat or drink or wherewithal he shall be clothed."
-- The Hon. Stuart Ruaidri Erskine, The Kilt & How to Wear It, 1901.
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