Historically Speaka
Thought I'd share a few more interesting things I learnt about my history.
For one generation on my family tree I trace my lineage maternally. My great-great-great-great-great grandfather was born out of wedlock* and so he kept his mother's name rather than his father's.
This same ancestor and his son (one of my great-great-great-great uncles) were pauper inmates at the workhouse Tattingstone Union during the 1881 census. He worked as an agricultural labourer on the 37 acre farm.
Also interesting is that we are not the first of my relatives to settle in New Zealand. Apparently there are 570 of my distant relatives living here.
* I was going to make a B-word joke...but couldn't bring myself to use the word, even in its proper usage.
For one generation on my family tree I trace my lineage maternally. My great-great-great-great-great grandfather was born out of wedlock* and so he kept his mother's name rather than his father's.
This same ancestor and his son (one of my great-great-great-great uncles) were pauper inmates at the workhouse Tattingstone Union during the 1881 census. He worked as an agricultural labourer on the 37 acre farm.
Also interesting is that we are not the first of my relatives to settle in New Zealand. Apparently there are 570 of my distant relatives living here.
* I was going to make a B-word joke...but couldn't bring myself to use the word, even in its proper usage.
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Big move!
I am from Melbourne so chances are I will get to NZ in the near future. Be great to meet.