One photo worth every penny of subs

[sue2white]

I've just caught up with this thread, but know exactly how you feel. There is alot of discussion about the GR - good & bad, but my sub proved a real asset when I was in contact with a lady who shared my 3x gt grandfather......and low and behold she had a phot of him. She had discovered it at the Gressenhall Rural Life Museum. That is what makes family history so rewarding.

[David Tuson]

What a wonderful pressie for Christmas.
The seaman's records for one of my ancestors were rather basic unfortunatley - but never mind at least he was there.
David

[Waitabit]

Just checking in while prepping dinner. Almost burned my 'Honey,sesame & garlic chicken stirfry!!

Congrats Pam & Sue, having waited so long a deserved break-through.

Onward & where-ever it leads you.

[tony vines]

Hi Pam

I know that your original post is now quite old but I only just saw it, because Waitabit just brought it to the fore again by posting. I had an identical discovery on the FMP mariners' records at about the same time. Over the years I've been 'doing' genealogy I have 'met' online cousins and have collaborated with two of them. One of those cousins is descended from the son of my great grandfather's first marriage - I descend from his second marriage. The son in question became a mariner but after starting a family and while still young he was drowned in the Thames after falling overboard from the boat he was working on. I found his picture on the FMP site and sent it to my cousin who was over the moon as you were.

Oddly enough a few years earlier I found another photograph on a criminal record of a 15 year old boy sentenced at Huntingdon in the mid 19th century (I hadn't realised that photographs were in such use so early). This was on a website devoted to criminal records in the East Midlands and the boy in question was another son of the same father by the first marriage. It's a long and sad story but the boy later married and became employed in the boot and shoe industry. One of his census records showed that he suffered from epilepsy which in those days was not treatable. The census and other records we found documented his failure to hold down his job, probably because of his illness, his transition to a workhouse, thence to an asylum where he was beaten up and beat others up and finally to his death of tuberculosis in another asylum during the Great War. It was fascinating to be able to compare the photograph of the 15 year old boy already with a series of convictions to his name with a picture taken of him as an inmate of an asylum. What a sad life he had and probably through no fault of his own.

[pok4r]

Hi Tony,
any chance at all to getting that web address please,, like to scan that

thnx

Hi Pam

I know that your original post is now quite old but I only just saw it, because Waitabit just brought it to the fore again by posting. I had an identical discovery on the FMP mariners' records at about the same time. Over the years I've been 'doing' genealogy I have 'met' online cousins and have collaborated with two of them. One of those cousins is descended from the son of my great grandfather's first marriage - I descend from his second marriage. The son in question became a mariner but after starting a family and while still young he was drowned in the Thames after falling overboard from the boat he was working on. I found his picture on the FMP site and sent it to my cousin who was over the moon as you were.

Oddly enough a few years earlier I found another photograph on a criminal record of a 15 year old boy sentenced at Huntingdon in the mid 19th century (I hadn't realised that photographs were in such use so early). This was on a website devoted to criminal records in the East Midlands and the boy in question was another son of the same father by the first marriage. It's a long and sad story but the boy later married and became employed in the boot and shoe industry. One of his census records showed that he suffered from epilepsy which in those days was not treatable. The census and other records we found documented his failure to hold down his job, probably because of his illness, his transition to a workhouse, thence to an asylum where he was beaten up and beat others up and finally to his death of tuberculosis in another asylum during the Great War. It was fascinating to be able to compare the photograph of the 15 year old boy already with a series of convictions to his name with a picture taken of him as an inmate of an asylum. What a sad life he had and probably through no fault of his own.

[tony vines]

Hi pok4r

The website I referred to can be found at http://vcp.e2bn.org/ It is not a commercial website so I think that I am allowed to post it. If however it is deleted by a moderator I suggest that you Google the words "Victorian Crime and Punishment" (it is a UK based site of course) which is the name of the site.

[Montecarlolou]

I have not been able to do much this summer aside from mopping up after floods, finishing renovations and looking after my first chickens ever!

We have our first cockerels, two of them! This was an unhappy accident as we were given them as chicks to rear as hens :/ . Now they are fully grown and getting aggressive; one had a go at me the other day for flapping his "brother" off one of our girls. Where's our big pot...?

[Montecarlolou]

One of his census records showed that he suffered from epilepsy which in those days was not treatable. The census and other records we found documented his failure to hold down his job, probably because of his illness, his transition to a workhouse, thence to an asylum where he was beaten up and beat others up and finally to his death of tuberculosis in another asylum during the Great War.

How many of us nowadays would have had a very different life? Makes you go cold; I had epilepsy for a long time!!