3 Things Make a Post

[sally_maria]

1. The parents are back from another trip to Turkey, where they visited various archaeological sites, including Ephesus, Pergamon and Troy. It was rather colder than usual, even for the time of year, but they enjoyed themselves.

2. More family history research shows one family connection I had suspected, and another I had no clue about. It seems William Garland, my gg-grandfather, married twice, once to his first cousin, and then to *her* first cousin on the other side of the family.

I'd suspected a family connection between the wives, due to the surnames, but it took the recent release of the Gloucestershire church registers online to realise that William was also related. My South Gloucestershire relatives are definitely the most closely connected, as there are several instances of siblings or cousins marrying into the same family, and one other instance of a first cousin marriage, though not in my direct line.

3. When my parents got home last night, there was a carrier bag with a new looking glass storage jar and a package of spaghetti sitting just inside the drive, and it's still there this evening... It looks like the phantom bag abandoner has returned. :-)

Comments

[purplecat]

Snooping new connections (as you do) but I'm descended from Gloucestershire Garlands! Mine are a bit further back than yours - my most recent Garland ancestor is Charlotte Garland, b. Mangotsfield 1793 who married Thomas Cordy in 1814. It would be bizarre if its the same family.

[sally_maria]

Ah, the Mangotsfield Garlands. I'm afraid I don't think there's a connection, as far as I've gone - to John Garland, born in Oldbury on Severn in 1783 - but they kept showing up in my Ancestry searches, due to the unimaginative naming practices of the 19th century - there was a time I was convinced there were more people I wasn't related to living in Mangotsfield than anywhere else. :-)

Welcome, btw - I'm afraid my journal's been a bit quiet of late, as so many of my flist have moved to using Facebook as their main social media, but I saw your Doctor Who post on metanews, and realised you were a friend of friends.

[purplecat]

That's a shame! Though it does show the difference one keen researcher can make that everyone knows their Mangotfield Garland ancestors!

I recognised your name from conversations on various other people's journals but I figured the metanews inclusion was probably the link!

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Centurion Duckie!

There was a point to this comment but it was overwhelmed by Centurion Duckie.

The gift of spaghetti is not to be spurned lightly?

[sally_maria]

They do seem to be determined to make sure we have some. :-)

Centurion Duckie is wonderful, though I must admit random - I have so many userpics that if I don't do that from time to time I forget they are there.

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

Nice to be welcomed back with a potential spaghetti dinner! :)

[sally_maria]

True, but that doesn't explain the jar. ;-)

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

Where did your South Gloucestershire ancestors come from? I have a large crowd of them in Wotton-under-edge. (Which just looks wrong. There's a Wootton here on the island.)

Did anyone ever come back for the previous Mysterious Shopping Bag?

[sally_maria]

I certainly can't tell how they get the current pronunciation out of Wotton, but that's fairly normal with place names. :-)

They seem to have been a fairly mobile bunch, within limits - Oldbury on Severn, Thornbury, Coaley (nr Cam) and Minchinhampton, winding up in Woodchester - and the other side of that family from Berkeley and Slimbrige, not to mention the gg-grandfather's brother who wound up as the game keeper at Westonbirt. No one in Wotton-under-edge, that I've found yet, though.

And no, we've had no news of the previous bag - it's still an unsolved mystery, probably because there aren't any adventurous children around to run rings around the police. ;-)