Cross Over between My and DH’s Ancestry

[pnefeli]

DH’s family is from Hull, and my family is from Swansea. Met in London.

I did my ancestry tree many years ago. Got bored recently so started on dh’s. And would you believe it, his great great great grandmother lived in the same house as my great great grandfather. What on earth are the chances of that?

She was a cook in the 1870s, and my great great grandfather was just a young boy. I’ve always told dh he should know his place😆

[SirVixofVixHall]

How lovely OP !

[bugbossausa]

That's so weird! And pretty cool

[bugbossausa]

Weird as in bizarre

[BestIsWest]

That’s amazing! I’m fascinated by it all and have done mine and DH’s too. No crossovers though even though our ancestors came from two villages a mile apart 100 miles away.

[PuttingDownRoots]

DHs parents found out they were Second cousins at their wedding. The old family photographs are interesting!

[GulesMeansRed]

I think in the past this was a lot more common than it is now. I'm quite surprised that I haven't found a crossover between my paternal and maternal lines as both were Edinburgh/East Lothian.

[Schlobbob]

That's so cool OP, love hearing things like this

DH and I have a 4th cousin in common (DNA match) I know how he is related to DH but not me. It's been driving me mad for years that I can't find the link on my side!

[lljkk]

I worked out that my parents had a common ancestor back in about 1660. There was quite a village scandal in the 2 marriages to same man, each parent descended from a different wife (old & young...)

[ssd]

Amazing coincidence op

[CornishGem1975]

I did DNA testing and I have one match that connects both my maternal and paternal side, which means a shared ancestor somewhere. I've not found it yet and what's more bizarre is that my mum is firmly Irish and my dad's side very English!

[8misskitty8]

I found out my great great grandparents lived in the same tenement building as DH great great grandparents in the late 1800’s and 10 years later they were all registered as living at a different tenement.
My great great grandparents had a few children and one child’s first and middle name is the same as DH’s great great granny first and last name.
We think the families must have been very close and possibly DH’s side was a godparent to the child.

[Merapi]

I recently discovered that DH's family hails from a remote farm in deepest Devon, where they lived well over 200 years ago, and which is less than two miles away from a hamlet to where my dad's sister and her husband moved in the 1970's.

[SummerSazz]

I moved to a hamlet in Gloucestershire from Brighton (brought up in Surrey) and found that my great great great grandmother who had the same name as me lived in the hamlet I moved to. Gave me goosebumps!!

[wellstopdoingitthen]

Oh I think that's really cool! I love researching our family roots and it has shown up some surprises. Haven't found any coincidences like this though.

[wellstopdoingitthen]

@SummerSazz

I moved to a hamlet in Gloucestershire from Brighton (brought up in Surrey) and found that my great great great grandmother who had the same name as me lived in the hamlet I moved to. Gave me goosebumps!!

That would give me goosebumps too!

[ConstitutionHill]

I've seen a few threads like these recently and I'm getting interested.

Is there a "best" website to sign up to? One with the most subscribers etc? Thanks

[Tiddlywinks63]

My mother’s great, great grandparents were barges and on one census in the 1800’s they were moored by a lock keeper’s cottage not far from here. The lock keeper and his wife were my father’s great, great grandparents!

[Tiddlywinks63]

Bargees…

[Anotheranonymousname]

My parents' ancestry coincided in the late 1800s. My DF's ancestor was involved in bringing a murderer to justice. Fifteen years later my DM's ancestor took on the job and home of the murder victim. My parents met over 100 years later, in a completely different part of the country.

[MaidOfSteel]

Some of the things you find when researching your family history are amazing, aren't they.

In the 1881 census I found a great great grandmother on my dad's side, who was from Staffordshire, and a great great grandmother on my mother's side, born in Ireland, living just 6 doors apart in South Shields! I wonder if they ever met.

I'm helping a friend research her family and it turns out that she's descended from a pair of siblings, one leading to her mother and the other to her father. So, instead of having 16 great great grandparents, she only has 14.

[merryhouse]

That's lovely. I haven't found anything to connect me and H yet

My parents moved out of the city to a posh village a few miles away which turned out to be the one my mother's ancestors 6-8 generations back lived in. (I was born in the village, so it's really cool to see all the names from the churchyard sitting there in my Ancestry tree... haven't quite got the entire 1841 village yet, but I'm working on it)

My great-grandmother's parents were first cousins, but I'm assuming they knew that at the time.

My aunt married someone from the family her grandmother (my great-gran) had been the cook for.

Oh, and there's something involving Florence's fancy man and various cousins which I can't remember now...