The Most Amazing Coincidence

[Jean Jeanie]

Tonight I had an e mail from a lady whose husband's ancestors are Fowlers and she had matched a few of them to the Fowlers in my tree on Genesreunited.

Yes it is the same family. Her husband's g grandfather and my husband's grandfather are brothers.

Now for the strange thing. I looked at her tree on the GR site and found that she was born in the village I was brought up in. Looked back on her side and found that her and I share the same ggg grandparents. I was so surprised

What are the odds on this???

Jean

[AnneM]

Hi Jean

I also have a favourite co-incidence not unlike yours in some ways. There was a chap in the town I grew up in who was cousin to my Aunt's first husband and also, we think, to her second husband. Accordingly we believed that this guy and his daughter who made a brave attempt to teach me domestic science at school (never going to be successful on that) were relatives of my father by marriage. That to our knowledge was our connection to that family.

Then a while ago when I was concentrating on researching my Borderers I got in touch, I think it was through GenesRe, with a woman in Fife who was also researching the Redpaths from Yetholm, Roxburghshire. She and I are descended from the same line. She mentioned to me that she had been contacted by a woman from my home town whose middle name was Redpath and who was more closely related to me. This woman it turns out is the wife of the chap mentioned above. So instead of only being related to this family by marriage through the paternal side, it turns out that the wife and daughter are blood relations of mine through my mother's relatives.

Given that I was born and dragged up in Argyll and these ancestors came from the other side of the country it seemed to me more remarkable, Maybe it just proves that we are all Jock Tamson's bairns.

Confused?? I am.

Anne

PS The success which is making me happy at the moment is that a gentleman at church on Sunday had a word because he was struggling to find his Granny's DC. She had a very common name and he believed she had died in Glasgow in 1933. He also thought she had probablly never been married. Being highly motivated to do housework on the public holiday yesterday (see above) I decided to have a quick try out and within a couple of hours came up with her death and not one but two marriages for her plus her family of origin in 1871 and 1881. This does throw up a few queries such as why she seeemed to produce her kids between marriages but my own 2x great granny managed that too so who knows. Must have been the fashion then. Anyway I was well pleased to find someone's elusive rellies since most of mine were coralled a while ago except the ones who were in Ireland.