Poetry!

[jeeb]

This genealogy hobby is great. I have done it for years but it can be most frustrating too. I have been researching my own and other families for nearly 30 years and with my own I hit a brick wall many years ago so I decided to write a poem about it:-

Can someone please tell me where Samuel was born,
I've searched the registers until I've sworn,
I know he first married in 1723,
It's the earliest date on my family tree.
He's in Ombersley, Worcester, Halesowen too,
Baptising his children, they numbered a few.
Two Sarahs and a Mary, the names of his wives,
Having his issue, two gave their lives.
So off to his grave, he went in 1765,
Too many years before I was alive.
Oh! incidently his surname was Boaz,
But how it was spelt, well HEAVEN knows.

Anyone else fancy putting their family into poetry?

Jeremy

[Chasing Caseys]

Hello Jeeb ....i wish i could but i did find this and it seemed to sum up the life one of them led and have included it on the front page of my write up for them.

The life of a gentleman's servant is something that of a bird shut up in a cage. The bird is well housed and well fed but is deprived of liberty, and liberty is the dearest and sweetest object of all Englishmen. Therefore I would rather be like a sparrow or a lark, have less housing and feeding and rather more liberty. A servant is shut up like a bird in a cage, deprived of the benefit of the air to the very great injury of the constitution.

William Taylor - a Footman c1820