I'd also like to thank Coromandel for taking the time to reply to each poster individually.
Not sure about a book but perhaps a thought for a future competition.
Anyone with an old copy of Grimms Fairy Tales to donate as a prize?
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Thread: Family stories: fact or fiction?
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10-04-2012, 10:15 PM #21MutleyGuest
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11-04-2012, 2:57 PM #22
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12-04-2012, 3:28 PM #23Lone PineGuest
Yeap I have, naughty naught Nanny .
Grandad died August 1915, Uncle Fred born December 1916 woops!!!!!!!! Hence why she told everyone Grandad died at the Somme in 1916. Whether Dad or Uncle Fred knew that they were only half brothers, we will never know. All I know is that my Aunts (my Dads half sisters) did not know and were pretty upset by it all.
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13-04-2012, 9:10 AM #24CoromandelGuest
My goodness, naughty Nanny indeed. You can't really call that one a "little white lie", can you?
So many lies must have been told over the ages to account for 'inconvenient' babies: I guess even more so in the days when most people didn't have the knowledge or means to prevent pregnancy.
If the Jeremy Kyle Show had been invented a century ago there wouldn't have been a shortage of family secrets for him to expose!
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13-04-2012, 9:50 PM #25Sandra ParkerGuest
I am the descendant of a Dutch Baroness. A close maternal relative was born in Delft, Holland. Admittedly the tale gets a bit murky prior to then, without dates, names or documents.
Careful research, and certificates, shows that she was born in the East End, one of 11 (4 died young) to the daughter, also one of 11 and born in the East End, of a German immigrant couple, who had married in London in 1858. Sugar Baker and later Gas Works Labourer, doesn't sound much like aristocracy to me, but then I may be wrong.
Sandra, whose spectacled aura finds the whole thing rather amusing.
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