Enda Posted May 26, 2004 Share Posted May 26, 2004 So have any intresting ancestrial stories your family tells you about? I know that my great-great grandpa was an Irish, non-denominational, horse-back preacher who decided to preach to the Cherokees in Tennesse, and wound up marrying one of them. Hmmm, I wonder if this is a sign God is calling me to the priesthood. On my father's side, my grandmother always told me I'm a descentdent of Sir Walter Scot, but my father never really believed that, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sojourner Posted May 26, 2004 Share Posted May 26, 2004 On my mother's side (Scotch-Irish and English) there's the tale of Hugh Ross, who along with his wife and kids was immigrating to America by boat back in the late 1700s/early 1800s. The boat capsized, and many on board drowned. Mr. Ross's wife and five children were fortunate enough to get space on a lifeboat, and Mr. Ross tried to climb into the already full boat. So, others on the boat chopped off his fingers so he couldn't get in and capsize it. He was left to drown in the ocean. The wife and children made it safely to the states. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crusader1234 Posted May 26, 2004 Share Posted May 26, 2004 My Great (to the something like 18th) exponetnt Grandfather was Brian Boru... thats pretty common but its neat anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azaelia Posted May 26, 2004 Share Posted May 26, 2004 I'm a direct desencdant of John and Priscilla Alden...I think there's a poem about them somewhere... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil Red Posted May 26, 2004 Share Posted May 26, 2004 one of my ancestors built an altar that they still use at one of the side chapels in Notre Dame University Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeraMaria Posted May 26, 2004 Share Posted May 26, 2004 In the 1500's one of my ancestors on my mom's side was a Portuguese noble and they were at war with some country...i keep forgetting which one, so anyway, they captured him and told him to denounce his King and his country, and he refused, so they boiled him in oil. Caldera = Caldeira, one of my last names, was given to his family, in honor of the boiling...:ph34r: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmotherofpirl Posted May 27, 2004 Share Posted May 27, 2004 (edited) Crusader you and I are related. My father's grandmother's job as a child was to slip out of the house with the silver and bury in in the fields when the Indians came. I still have her quilt top made in the 1800's. Steven Foster is a distant cousin. Edited May 27, 2004 by cmotherofpirl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sojourner Posted May 27, 2004 Share Posted May 27, 2004 [quote name='cmotherofpirl' date='May 26 2004, 07:01 PM'] Crusader you and I are related. My father's grandmother's job as a child was to slip out of the house with the silver and bury in in the fields when the Indians came. I still have her quilt top made in the 1800's. Steven Foster is a distant cousin. [/quote] I love quilts ... they have such a great history. I have one that my grandmother made me; I hope to pass it along to one of my own children someday. A lost art, quiltmaking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thy Geekdom Come Posted May 27, 2004 Share Posted May 27, 2004 My ancestors are extremely famous...their names were Adam and Eve... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azaelia Posted May 27, 2004 Share Posted May 27, 2004 [quote name='Raphael' date='May 26 2004, 08:19 PM'] My ancestors are extremely famous...their names were Adam and Eve... [/quote] :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmom Posted May 27, 2004 Share Posted May 27, 2004 My mother-in-law quilts... but that is not an interesting story about my ancestors... just an interesting aside... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musturde Posted May 27, 2004 Share Posted May 27, 2004 My ancestors made the numbers used here. (except zero, I heard Mexico made that). My mom's uncle was a big war hero in Lebanon and was on his way to being president until he got assisinated. Umm... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmom Posted May 27, 2004 Share Posted May 27, 2004 [quote name='Raphael' date='May 26 2004, 07:19 PM'] My ancestors are extremely famous...their names were Adam and Eve... [/quote] We're related!!! Small world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeraMaria Posted May 27, 2004 Share Posted May 27, 2004 amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colleen Posted May 27, 2004 Share Posted May 27, 2004 Most of my Irish ancestors came over to America during the time of the Famine. I don't know much about them, other than that some of them came from Tralee, in County Kerry. However, there is an interesting story about my Irish great-great-grandmother. My grandpa said that when he was a little boy, one of his uncles was teaching him and his cousins to do the Irish jig. But my great-great-grandmother put a stop to it, thinking it was unAmerican. Let's just say that's a really regrettable move, considering the fact that people pay thousands of dollars to learn that nowadays! Let's see. My great-grandmother, who was German, her brothers ran a coagulated milk factory. Very exciting, I know. lol. Her sister ran a hat shop in the early 20th century, on her own. One of her brothers was a famous environmentalist-type guy. Her father went to the Klondike for the gold rush. He left the farm, and his sons took care of things while he was gone. But he came back with no gold. When people asked him about it, he said he had found some, but someone hit him over the head with a shovel and stole it. Kinda shady explanation if you ask me, lol. Oh! And evidently, I share a common ancestor with Sir Francis Drake, the pirate! Arr! :blood: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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