Hello ,
Ive been looking for John Troop since early 2002. Like with most people who decide to do the family tree you start off thinking it will be easy ...Anyway back to the bane of my life for the last 11 years.
John was born in 1874 in Gainsborough. Jump to 1900 in Liverpool and John gets married to Maggie Ross October 31st 1900, Maggie was 9months pregnant at the time and she gave birth to a little girl November 5th 1900, (no rush there then !) By the following April and the 1901 census John has moved to the other end of the road they lived in and told the census person that he was SINGLE ..think the house was a lodging house . Anyway the little girl my husbands nan was put in an orphanage at the age of 11. Maggie her mother had died of a brain condition and even thought nan and her mam lived with her parents they still parmed her off. Well Nan grows up and for some reason told her family that her dad John Troop had been sent to America to work and they were to join him. But he had been killed in the San Fransisco earthquake in 1906.
So in 2002 I decided to look for him . Found him born in 1874..and his brothers and sisters, then in Liverpool where he got married ...then nothing .hes not even on the 1911 census. So over the years Ive tried looking for him off and on. I just seemed to keep hitting a brick wall where he was concerned lol.
About October of last year 2012 and I know this will sound potty I went to a spritulist meeting more for my daughter than anything lol. And John came through I nearly fell off the chair lol.He said some things that no one there could have known. The lady in charge said have you any questions for him I said YESSS where the devil has he been all these years. He then left lol. typical man !
So I rejoined Genes Reunited only do it for a month at a time cant afford a full membership. So I thought Id look for John . I then found he had died in 1972 aged 98. I never gave it a thought he would have lived to that sort of age. He was born 1874 . I know it was the right one because in 1974 they were putting the DOB on the register and it was his 21st Feb. So I thought well if hes lived to that great age he might have married and yes he had married again . He was 68 years old and his 2nd wife was 53. Now on the marriage certifcate he says hes a batchelor (hense John Troop the cad lol). He got married in Walthamstow E17..long way from Liverpool lol.
Id love to know what he got up to in the inbetween years well from 1900 till 1956 his daughter would have been 56 married and with children of her own but he never ever came looking for her.Is there anyone on here who knows if there is a newspaper that does "where are they know" type of column so I could put his story on and just maybe there is somebody out there who might remember him it was only 1974 when he finally popped his clogs.I live in the hope that somebody might have a picture of him it was 1970's everyone had a camera . His 2nd wife died in 1989.
Thanks everyone
Lainey214
Ive been looking for John Troop since early 2002. Like with most people who decide to do the family tree you start off thinking it will be easy ...Anyway back to the bane of my life for the last 11 years.
John was born in 1874 in Gainsborough. Jump to 1900 in Liverpool and John gets married to Maggie Ross October 31st 1900, Maggie was 9months pregnant at the time and she gave birth to a little girl November 5th 1900, (no rush there then !) By the following April and the 1901 census John has moved to the other end of the road they lived in and told the census person that he was SINGLE ..think the house was a lodging house . Anyway the little girl my husbands nan was put in an orphanage at the age of 11. Maggie her mother had died of a brain condition and even thought nan and her mam lived with her parents they still parmed her off. Well Nan grows up and for some reason told her family that her dad John Troop had been sent to America to work and they were to join him. But he had been killed in the San Fransisco earthquake in 1906.
So in 2002 I decided to look for him . Found him born in 1874..and his brothers and sisters, then in Liverpool where he got married ...then nothing .hes not even on the 1911 census. So over the years Ive tried looking for him off and on. I just seemed to keep hitting a brick wall where he was concerned lol.
About October of last year 2012 and I know this will sound potty I went to a spritulist meeting more for my daughter than anything lol. And John came through I nearly fell off the chair lol.He said some things that no one there could have known. The lady in charge said have you any questions for him I said YESSS where the devil has he been all these years. He then left lol. typical man !
So I rejoined Genes Reunited only do it for a month at a time cant afford a full membership. So I thought Id look for John . I then found he had died in 1972 aged 98. I never gave it a thought he would have lived to that sort of age. He was born 1874 . I know it was the right one because in 1974 they were putting the DOB on the register and it was his 21st Feb. So I thought well if hes lived to that great age he might have married and yes he had married again . He was 68 years old and his 2nd wife was 53. Now on the marriage certifcate he says hes a batchelor (hense John Troop the cad lol). He got married in Walthamstow E17..long way from Liverpool lol.
Id love to know what he got up to in the inbetween years well from 1900 till 1956 his daughter would have been 56 married and with children of her own but he never ever came looking for her.Is there anyone on here who knows if there is a newspaper that does "where are they know" type of column so I could put his story on and just maybe there is somebody out there who might remember him it was only 1974 when he finally popped his clogs.I live in the hope that somebody might have a picture of him it was 1970's everyone had a camera . His 2nd wife died in 1989.
Thanks everyone
Lainey214
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