Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

Masomnia

vivatifosi wrote: »

Hey Nikks, good to see you around these parts!:j:j:j

Just thinking that! Been ages! Hope you're well :beer:

PasturesNew

Pasta: I'll eat it, but to me it's "just food" and nothing to get excited about. It fills a space to carry the flavours/dish or be a side portion to fill up a plate gap. I'd never wish to pay for a pasta dish when eating out as I'd feel "cheated" that a pasta meal isn't "real food".

In the cupboard right now I've got:
- lasagne sheets, box unopened
- spaghetti, pack unopened
- a gifted bag of HUGE shells, unopened
- a pack of regular macaroni, opened/nearly finished
- a pack of reglar macaroni, stocked up
- a pack of tiny seashells, 1/3rd left.

I like the tiny seashells as part of a cold pasta salad in the summer.
I like the regular macaroni for mac cheese.

All other sizes/shapes are "food I intend to get round to making" and never do.

PasturesNew

Had a random/quick volley of short emails with a family member re the tree... and she said she'd always been stuck on something, but I knew of a new resource that had that info, so I sent it to her... and she was pleased I'd tied up a huge "black hole of importance" over who had which baby when GG-gf ran off with his floozy abroad.

She then sent me back the name of my GG-gm's parents - and within 15 minutes I'd produced a sheet to show her it's wrong; it was a person of the same name where somebody'd made a huge/wrong assumption.

She also sent me some other information on another G-gm's parents - and it turns out there's some "well documented" chap who was quite active in the slave trade, so I've got to find him now.... it looks like he was probably in the army and/or captain of a ship that did a lot of back/forth with slaves during some War or something

vivatifosi

Sounds fascinating Pastures. He'll probably have left a will or be in newspapers... there has to be something you can stick your sleuthing skills into.

PasturesNew

Well, just been digging around. Master mariner, in some wars.
Married wife a couple of weeks after her 14th birthday!
First/only child born when mother was 15.

First/only child ... to a sailor?
They appear to have stayed together for life, although he was at sea a lot.... odd she didn't have more kids; he probably had loads all over the place!

Married about 46 years when the wife died, he outlived her by some years.

Maybe she was "injured" having a child so young.

PasturesNew

I did check his name with "bigamy" in the newspapers, but lots of results that don't appear to be results ... but then something caught my eye - and I've found him robbed/beaten Easter weekend by 3 fellas .... and that coincides with the date he stopped being a captain, so maybe he had to give it up.

Trying to read the court details, but got an error message on the papers, but I have the date/location so will try again in a few minutes.

Ah, they knocked him down and robbed him of his watch, a half sovereign and some silver.

They said "you can't tell it was us" .... but the jury convicted them. Two got 20 years' transportation and the 3rd got a year in prison.

Ooh, it gets a bit exciting as the prisoners had absconded prior to the trial, so had to be found again.

By the time they found them, my ancestor had just left port, so they had to sit in prison for 3 months until he came back.

EDIT: Now looking at lists of arriving ships ... and at first you think "Ooh, dates/places he was"... then you realise that the very first search once you know one format ... gives 139 results and you think "Do I REALLY want to plot every journey the ships he was on ever made anywhere?" If I get 139 on the first search, I could end up finding 300 and discovering he just went "there and back" twice a week

He probably just had a bird he lived with, but I'm determined to discover a 2nd wife/kids or something .... just because the Internet says I can dig around from my own sofa.

Nikkster

vivatifosi wrote: »

Hey Nikks, good to see you around these parts!:j:j:j

Masomnia wrote: »

Just thinking that! Been ages! Hope you're well :beer:

:waves:
I've been dpiping in and out of lurkdom

I'm very well thank you. Enjoying my new job

How are you all?

*:wave:
**dipping

LydiaJ

Nikkster wrote: »

:waves:
I've been dpiping in and out of lurkdom

I'm very well thank you. Enjoying my new job

How are you all?

*:wave:
**dipping

(Waves back)
:hello:

PasturesNew

I'm at that awkward stage. You're told something by somebody who has been doing it thoroughly for decades. They have collaborated with another relative of good age who has been doing it thoroughly. These two individuals have visited tiny/remote islands and personally translated handwritten French parish registers, by themselves, meticulously as these people are in their line. They have swapped notes.

So how come, with one simple name and a couple of "facts" within 2 hours I am convinced they have mixed up two blokes of the same name ... and the other one's the slave chappie who was in the army.

I hate it when that happens.....

vivatifosi

Hey Nikks, glad the new job is going well. It's lovely to see you, even if it's a brief stopover.