Tell Something Interesting About One (Or More) of Your Ancestors
#113
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 43
WOW,so interesting. my grandmas people were from Scotland,Skenes rumored to be Druids. One of my grandfathers was raised by Tecumseh's tribe they scalped my grandma,killed 3 boys & kept Peter Waggoner for 20 years. When his father found out he was alive he went after him & begged him to come home for a visit. They wouldn't let him go back to his Indian family,kept him locked up & drunk, then started sending a pretty young widow to feed him & he married her & stayed with the family. my grandma that was scalped was a cousin to Lewis Wetzel the Indian killer. Maybe we can find some relatives on this board ?
#116
Originally Posted by bodie358
Im related to Peregrine White, the first male child born in the New World.
My maternal grandfather's family lived on their piece of property since the 1600's in SW Pa.
#117
I go back to Salem, MA and have 2 of the girls in the Towne family that were "accused" witches-one hung, the other was imprisoned in Boston for a while (both are Gr Gr..grandmothers from different family lines). One of their brothers I just discovered was a gr ..grandfather of my husband so we are 10th cousins!!
#119
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: sydney australia
Posts: 129
When my daughter started researching my father's family in England she found a lot of working class ancestors -- many were domestic servants-- and then great excitement-- in one census she found that the family had a servant themselves! (They had temporarily moved up in the world)
On my mother's side we found a few convicts sent out to Australia from England -- but that is a source of pride for anyone in Australia studying their ancestry.
On my mother's side we found a few convicts sent out to Australia from England -- but that is a source of pride for anyone in Australia studying their ancestry.
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