Ramblings

Tag: Genealogy

  • Joining the dots

    Joining the dots

    My mother’s birth was “illegitimate”, although she probably never knew it.

  • Le gros commandant Whof Whof Whof: part 2 – The Large Wynnstay Collider

    Le gros commandant Whof Whof Whof: part 2 – The Large Wynnstay Collider

    Would you mind awfully taking a DNA test for me, to give a definitive answer? I’ll pay for it, and I promise I won’t try to claim your castle.

  • Le gros commandant Whof Whof Whof: part 1

    Le gros commandant Whof Whof Whof: part 1

    When I shared this rumour of our aristocratic ancestry with my daughter Rachel, she was initially excited, picturing her 4 x great grandfather as Colin Firth playing Mr Darcy. Less so after her first seconds of research uncovered le gros commandant Whof Whof Whof.

  • Llanuwchllyn

    Llanuwchllyn

    “Three of those people are your relatives”. That should have surprised me, but it didn’t. After all, this was Llanuwchllyn.

  • Taid

    Taid

    Taid seems to have preferred the schoolroom to the farm, and perhaps the effort he made to learn English as a child led his part of the family away from the land and into more comfortable (if less beautiful) workplaces.

  • Gan-gan

    Gan-gan

    When as teenagers we heard of this affair, my brother and I liked to think of Davy as some sort of brute, and of Jack as the handsome knight rescuing her from his clutches.