Of limited interest to most, but since my grandmother has been digging all of this up, I thought that I might post it in case it should help someone else’s Googesearch.
My great grandfather, William J.G. Boor, married Louisa A Hinton (one of 11 children) in 1893. They had two children: William R.G., born 1893, Doris Margaret. J. born 1897.
William married I don’t know when and my grandmother Edna Louise was born 1921 and married in 1941.
Louisa died in 1935.
Doris married George Michael Bushnell in 1938. (Interesting, at the age of 41.)
I believe that Louisa grew up on a farm near Stroud, NSW, and that William Boor may have been a soldier.
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My family has been traced back to around 1100 ce. They appear to be descended from of a Viking ‘Quisling’ who had decided his bread was buttered on the side of the Normans. Thereafter, they appear to have picked the wrong side of civil wars with monotonous regularity. They were Recusants, and their home Speke Hall near Liverpool was noted on Lord Burleigh’s maps as a potential source of disloyalty to the Tudor regime.
This sort of thing is increasingly fashionable, but I cannot see it myself. After all, we obviously all had ancestors back to the year dot! There’s no particular distinction involved. It’s just that we don’t always know who they were. And of course, since early records are mainly of the male line, noone has much idea of the female heredity, which happens to be all that could have been certain!
I admit the most interesting thing I learned was that we were descended illegitimately, in the 17th century. Born on the wrong side of a Lancashire blanket, after which my ancestor went off to set up in Limerick, only to return some years later as a respectable cousin! The family went on to produce various members of the High Church ….