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Any interesting tales that you've unearthed about your ancestors?

My great great grandad Ibrahim Kozlo was stabbed to death by his wife's lover, that's about as interesting as it gets.

Oh and my great great grandad Hadžiomer Šabic, gave his son Omer the surname Hadžiomerović, literally meaning 'son of Hadžiomer', not often that things like that happened in the 20th century.

The English side is incredibly boring.

Reminds me of Faruk Hadžibegić, who netted in a penalty shoot-out at Italia '90 World Cup.

We've heard a lot of your ancest-stories coca, where does the English side come in?

We had a hanging in 1803, the story goes Thomas Helliker was accused of burning down a mill in Semmington, Melksham. He was tried, found guilty and hanged on his 19th birthday in Salisbury and buried in St James' churchyard in Trowbridge.

Years later it turned out he was wrongly convicted and another man admitted the crime on his deathbed..

He's a niche 'hero' of history from below... had a lecture that mentioned him last week. He's quite revered because he refused to tell the authorities which of his colleagues had actually set fire to it!

There's nothing really of note, loads of hard workers who never really got the breaks.

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My grandfather started tracing our family tree a number of years ago, but at that time I was too young to pay it any attention and I'm not sure how far back he got before he left us.

After moving to Kenilworth in 2010, I discovered that my great grandfather was listed on the war memorial there. As it transpired my grandfather was born there just a few streets away from where I lived and that he never met his father as he died in France exactly two weeks before armistice day.

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/529200/WARREN,%20H

We found a few, a couple are in living memory....

My dads sister (my aunt) murdered her husband with a kitchen knife in Gloucester in 1969 and was cleared on grounds of dimished responsibilities. Her husband arrived home from a night out with lipstick on his collar and with her being heavily pregnant with my cousin stabbed him through the neck with a kitchen knife.

My Great Grandfather was a lay preacher at St Marks Church and was assistant to William Pitt and assisted him in setting up the football team in 1879 while working at the Railway Works and my Great Uncle Jimmy Edmunds played for Swindon in the 1890's and went on to become club trainer.

My wifes Great (x7) Uncle was Capt John Pilfold http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pilfold who was the commander of the Ajax at the Battle of Trafalgar who hilmself was 2nd cousin to Percy Shelley they poet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley .

My Great Uncle died on his first day of fighting at Ypres in within an hour of arriving there in 1914 http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1611175/EDMUNDS,%20ALFRED%20JOHN and is commemorated on the Menin Gate.

Also an interesting thing we found is that while searching our family records independantly we both tracked out families back to 1798 where wierldy they were living in the same village in Three Penny Handley Dorset, a village with a population of around 50 people back then so there is a very good chance that probably knew each other socially.

My great great Aunt died on the Titanic apparently.

Well that's pretty bloody cool. Ajax had an impressive 'not dead' record at trafalgar if memory serves, something like two or three dead?


Lived in the same village with a population of 50? I think your ancestors knowing each other socially is the least of your worries...

My great grandad, or maybe great great grandad helped convince France to surrender to Ze Germans. Or at least that's how my Nan told me, but she also said he was assassinated.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Bonnet