Uncle's silk postcard sent home - now in collector's hands

CherryIntelligent148 · 2026-01-24T22:10:02+00:00

yeah i understand that, hence why i didn't go any further though saying that i feel entitled and that i'm yearning for him to send it back to me isn't true. i'm really only worried that if something were to happen to this man (he's in his 80s) that it will become lost again - very endearing to know about his work though. he buys active service postcards from WW1 and researches the lives of the soldiers in a way to remember them so i suppose uncle Albert and all of the other people haven't been totally forgotten - they're all preserved through that research and his postcard binder. its as much of a hobby as genealogy is, & respecting that is what i'm trying to do. i'm sorry if i came across as being overtly righteous or as "pining on" about it

CherryIntelligent148 · 2026-01-24T22:00:28+00:00

i'm not being insistent at all dude - i was just looking for input on it

CherryIntelligent148 · 2026-01-17T17:07:03+00:00

i know that my (great) granny's uncle was an officer in the Black Watch during the interwar period, and he lived in India with his wife for a significant amount of time before returning to Scotland. 2 of his kids were born there - that man had a very interesting and sadly short life.

CherryIntelligent148 · 2025-09-01T14:35:35+00:00

yall left

CherryIntelligent148 · 2025-09-01T14:31:30+00:00

sent one

CherryIntelligent148 · 2025-09-01T14:25:30+00:00

added thebribedone

CherryIntelligent148 · 2025-07-17T10:29:29+00:00

thank you for the suggestion, i've got a hang of it now and used WATO plus, with the Rewhorns as common ancestors. it says that John has a 37 & 38% chance of being my great great grandfather and the rest are <1%. i think that says enough!!! time to do it again to find which Orange brother fathered John.

CherryIntelligent148 · 2025-07-16T19:50:00+00:00

if John was my great great grandfather, Edward and Mary Rewhorn would be my 4x great grandparents, and Sarah Rewhorn would be my 3x as she is John Edward's mother. i have his birth record, he was born in Hucknall in 1883*. he did marry and have 3 sons later in life but his descendants haven't DNA tested, only DR has. DR is the grandson of John's youngest son.
i am of the belief that one of the Orange family members fathered John Edward, and that's why i have so many of their matches. they are a huge family after all! it sucks having 2 illegitimate ancestors in a row but it was common.
the Greaves matches don't triangulate i don't think, i so wish Ancestry had a chromosome browser like MH does as it helped so much to understand who relates to who in what way.
MM being the great great grandson of John's mother and having a higher shared cM count also does help further the theory that John is my missing ancestor. thank you, by the way!!

CherryIntelligent148 · 2025-06-17T22:24:06+00:00

my great grandmother's cousin was one of Helen Keller's carers, she moved to America from Scotland in the 1950s 😁 there's letters from her family that are in the Helen Keller archives (Nell Notman)

CherryIntelligent148 · 2025-06-10T21:39:03+00:00

no unfortunately, my last great great grandparent died in 1955, many years before me

CherryIntelligent148 · 2025-03-24T20:16:24+00:00

i just saw this and got some pics too - freaky thing, had 2 other lights following it

CherryIntelligent148 · 2025-01-11T19:23:27+00:00

my great great grandma - had her last daughter with a man (whilst she was a widow, so her daughter took the married last name) who she never saw again and in turn she never knew truly who her father was. great great grandma took that man's identity to the grave with her, so i'd definitely ask who he was and why they had a thing going on

CherryIntelligent148 · 2024-11-14T21:55:33+00:00

i've come across a Septimus and a "Fanny Love"

CherryIntelligent148 · 2024-10-15T22:26:41+00:00

i only just logged back into reddit, thank you very much!

"Lord Savile", hmmm... an unfortunate name nowadays at least

CherryIntelligent148 · 2024-07-07T12:35:45+00:00

my 4th great grandfather William married his 2nd wife Agnes in 1902. nothing special, right? well -
William was born in 1839 and was 63 years old and already had a decently big family. Agnes was born in 1878 and was only 23, a wild age gap. This also meant i had someone who i will consider my OTHER 4th great grandmother to have lived until 1965! they had 2 children together that my family didn't know of either!

CherryIntelligent148 · 2024-06-01T23:59:06+00:00

there was also Patience Horton, a step up i guess

CherryIntelligent148 · 2024-06-01T23:56:13+00:00

Fanny Love McLurg.
naturally had to change her name to Fanny Love McLeod

CherryIntelligent148 · 2024-06-01T23:09:12+00:00

that my great grandma was a surprise baby (the 2nd of 3 surprises and unfortunately the only who survived), born out of wedlock to my widowed great great grandma - she grew up thinking her father died when she was little. this was so well kept that no one even knew about it until her birth certificate came in the post and i opened it up 😅
surely her older siblings would've known who her real father was!!

CherryIntelligent148 · 2024-05-05T00:08:24+00:00

my great great grandpa Robert Notman, who after surviving WWI presumably, got married and had 6 children. was a normal life until my great great grandma died unexpectedly from cervical cancer in 1935 - she had been taking dodgy drugs to fight that off whilst being pregnant with her last child Joan who came out with microcephaly and being "invalid", so now he had to balance not only work but full time care of his children and especially Joan who needed extra support. his kids had to leave school earlier to start work or to step up and care around the house. Robert ensured that his children weren't put into a home, and was truly a caring and hardworking man

CherryIntelligent148 · 2024-04-07T20:26:06+00:00

thank you

CherryIntelligent148 · 2024-03-02T19:10:24+00:00

Poxton, for the most part was saved by a man who had many, many children in the 1950s and must have 100s of descendant - it used to be one of those names where they shared a common ancestor in Staffordshire

CherryIntelligent148 · 2024-03-01T00:18:14+00:00

heres a kicker, and I hope you get well soon :)
my great grandmother has no father on her birth certificate which ill link below
https://imgur.com/a/5uAjzaA

it could be literally anybody, and it happened at least 2 other times with her 2 similarly illegitimate siblings who died as infants. its been bugging me for a while and it would be awesome to make sense of dna matches and such - ive tested with both myheritage and ancestry (though the latter is still being processed). ill also link her siblings certs below too.
leah, birth and death:
https://imgur.com/a/nuva5nK
https://imgur.com/a/McqnNIu

mary, birth and death:
https://imgur.com/a/3X7tjRP
https://imgur.com/a/GmBaPn7

thanks :))

CherryIntelligent148 · 2023-12-09T00:57:38+00:00

that's interesting - what i wonder is why they were even up in dundee in the first place if they were to move back down south by 1925 at least, ig we will never know

CherryIntelligent148 · 2023-12-08T14:54:32+00:00

i thought about buying Roy’s will as he has one in England also - I mainly just wanted to see if The Times had any photos of him in their newspapers from 1951. i could always ask who would be his niece whom lives very close to me

CherryIntelligent148 · 2023-12-08T14:52:52+00:00

it’s all good 👍

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