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So What Did Your Daddy Do Back in The Day

my x5 great grandfather John Smith the elder was hanged as a highwayman & the leader of the Culworth Gang Aug 4th 1787

                                                                 Neither the Butchers or the Bakers
                                                                  were exactly candlestick makers ..

                                                               But the Smith’s, Parkers and Pettitt’s

                                                               Were all boat-builders, cooks, nurses
                                                              or medics, so what did your daddy do ..

 

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Jim "The Lad" ....

architect, builder of shopping centers. cool write Neville! love family history!  free site to search is familyhistory,org!.................................Jim

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Neville

Cheers Jim .. I may check out that site but ancestry is pretty cool too, its amazing what can be determined from a small DNA sample these days  :) 

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Being Me

Oooh, Neville that's sooo interesting! One of my ancestors, on my mothers side, was executed for being a witch. My children's 5x great uncle( I think its 5 times could be 4)  was Sir William Gull, Queen Victoria's surgeon and at one time a Jack the Ripper suspect ( pretty sure he was not J the R)  x

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Neville

Wowzers indeed .. I knew about William Gull, both the fact he was Queen Victoria's personal surgeon and a prime suspect for JtR .. isn't history fascinating x

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