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During the war.
My grandmother who was a nurse was just moving a patient from his bed to go to x-ray or something and a bomb hit nearby smashing a window a send big shard's of glass through the pillow's and bed where they had just been seconds before. |
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My grandad wrote to his beloved football team and was allowed to borrow the FA cup and take it back to suburban Manchester for a day. He collected and returned it on the bus and had a permanent line of people coming through his house to see and touch the cup in person.  |
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My grandad qualified as a cabinet-maker in the early 1920s and donated various items he made as an apprentice to local institutions.
He also made a number of desks, display cabinets and clocks and the vast majority of them are used to this day in certain public buildings including the local cathedral. |
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My grandmother was born in Brownlow Hill Workhouse, one of the last workhouses, now the site of the Catholic Cathedral in Liverpool.
Her mother, the daughter of Irish immigrants to the city was orphaned at 3 and was brought up in a Catholic convent orphanage in Wales. It was basically a servant training school ran by nuns.
My Gran used to warn me to stay away from nuns and wanted me to be Christened C of E. Not for that reason, but she was one of the wisest and most compassionate people I've ever met. She had a kind of knowing pain behind her loving eyes.
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"During the war.
My grandmother who was a nurse was just moving a patient from his bed to go to x-ray or something and a bomb hit nearby smashing a window a send big shard's of glass through the pillow's and bed where they had just been seconds before."
Similarly my grandparents used to go to the same bomb shelter but one day the sirens went off and they were both in different parts of the city so each went to a different shelter. The one they both should have been in was bombed (I really hope I've remembered that story right, I was quite young when I was told) |
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I've researched my family right back to 1580, they are pretty boring really from what I have found, did my ex husbands and managed to put to bed a name change for my ex father in law and what happened to his real dad so he has that now and the current husband, his mother is on her third marriage and from what I can see, she isn't the only one to like multiple wedding cakes lol.
That said, on the day prince Philip died, I went to see my parents and my dad had the tree up on the pc and saw PP on there, I asked why and he said that my great uncle (not my blood uncle which is why I never found this out, he was married to my great aunt) is related to him (can't remember how) but I always joke that I'm related to Chris Pratt and Arnie as somewhere down the line Arnie and Phillip are related lol |
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All different people
Interracial marriage in the sticks of a convict colony in the middle of the nineteenth century
Father marrying step-daughter
Someone with an incredible back story but it turns out they just told amazing lies all their life
Among the least honourable WW2 related deaths one can imagine
The victim of a crime begging the courts to let the perpetrator go |
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Actually a bbc documentary about mine a years ago as my cousin traced our Italian roots
Turns out a family member chose to have a fling with a mafia boss wife.
He found out
They fled on a row boat to England
Ended up in Coleshill where an Italian quarter developed
Spat at
Beaten daily
Had to check in with the police every day
True story |
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My Dad thought Matthew Webb (first guy to swim The Channel, died in a stupid stunt over Niagara Falls) was a great-great-great grandfather.
I researched it.
He wasn't.
Didn't have the heart to crush my Dad's lifelong delusion. |
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