3 Things Make a Post
Feb. 24th, 2015 07:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sally_maria1. 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. :-)
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. :-)
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Date: 2015-02-25 12:15 pm (UTC)Did anyone ever come back for the previous Mysterious Shopping Bag?
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Date: 2015-02-25 02:18 pm (UTC)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. ;-)