You two have been hanging around too many Brits for too long - you've started talking about the RAIN!! :frusty:
Oh yeah, need it bad. Dry winter but the past month has been fairly soggy. Won't stop the water restrictions over summer though. Nowhere near it. Geoff, i think you guys are drier?
Women's Institute - when they've finished their jam making and waiting for the bus home, all you hear is the chatter about how terrible the weather is - there must have been a lot of WIs on the convict ships for those genes to filter down to you guys
And my lot were being arrested and tried for nicking other peoples belongings mostly. And chasing women. And undertaking long protracted family disutes over what Aunt Edith said about Our Sally at Grannies funeral in 1847. Funnily enough I don't think any of our lot got sent out to Ozland. Strange. i htink i should complain
Your lot were probably hung Kitty. Heard they used to do a lot of that in the Midlands, lol. :noidea: Anyways would you want be in a country were all the animals are made out of rejected bits left over. And then the possibility you could of been born in the back of beyond where it takes you a week to get to your front gate. Not me, give me the good ole British weather anytime. Mike eep:
My lot came over from the netherlands around 1314 to act as mercanaries to Robert the Bruce at Bannonockburn. As a result of this, they were awarded land as thier reward for fighting. We lost the land because we continued to be catholics when the rest of Scotland turned protestant! Some of the family turned protestant and joined the plantations to Ireland but fell into hard times, one was hung for sheep stealing and so they left Ireland and came back as catholics! The only other notable family claim was a cousin who scored the winning goal for Celtic in Lisbon in 1967. he is very modest about it, all he will say is that he put his foot forward and the ball struck and went into the goal mouth!
My claim to family fame was that my Grandfather was an engineer aboard the R100 which took off from Cardington and flew to Canada in 1929. His father was a right so and so. After retiring from the Army in 1911 he left his wife and children because his wife had the big 'C' and he couldn't handle watching her dying. At the outbreak of WW1 he went to Canada and joined the CEF and posted back to UK. He was kicked out for lying about his age and he was also a drunk as well. He then joined the Labour Corps and promoted to 2nd Lt. Again 6 months later he was kicked out for being a drunk. He then promptly went back to the family home and got together with his dead brother's wife, (he was killed in action 1915). Got her pregnant and of course you couldn't marry your dead brother's wife then so he disappeared to Brazil and lived to a ripe old age, or so the story goes.
Morse, your lot seems to quite nomadic (and are sure it was for sheep stealing? :becky Sniper, thanks for sharing that - sounds like a very interesting character. Certainly seemed to have a "reputation".
Kyt, The thing is i am in touch with his granddaughter from the relationship he had with his brothers wife. I wouldn't of known any of this if it hadn't been a chance meeting within a family name website. Incidently his other brother won the DCM during 1915 and was killed about a month after his other brother. And my grandfather won the BEM during WW2 for saving the life of a pilot at RAF Llandow after his plane crashed. My grandfather broke into the cockpit and pulled him out. He was a civvie engineer working there at the time. Not sure if my great grandfather won any medals but i know he was at the seige of Fort Ladysmith during the Boer War. I think he was also at the Battle of Lancaster Hill. Sniper eep:
Sniper, you have some very impressive ancestors. What was your grandfathers name? Boer war, WW1, WW2 - strewth, they certainly got stuck in. Morse, your lot sound like mine. Farming was always living on the edge - between nature and the landlords, it was a woeful like. Unfortunately what I have heard about my lot is minimal and patchy, but being Jat (farmer/warrior caste) Punjabis they weren't averse to using the sword as well as the plough. Such naughty people.
My great Grandfathers name was GEORGE ARTHUR LELLOTT, he was the one who was a bit naughty. My grandfathers name was Donald Lelliott. My other grandfather was at Arnhem. He didn't speak about it much which i can understand. Had a taste of what he saw in the Falklands, so can understand why he didn't talk about it. Mike (Sniper) eep:
