We have a family bible, passed down to me by my grandmother.
On the inside of the cover there is a lovely embossed certificate showing that it was bought with weekly instalment by a Robert Cuthbert Metcalfe in 1857.
He married Mary Lambert on May 19th 1850
They had 3 children, George, Hannah (died in infancy) and Daniel Lambert Metcalfe.
Now the thing is the next entries in the bible were for my maternal Grandparents and their 3 children.
So all these years we have wondered why it was in our family and how we were related to Robert & Mary?
Well today thanks to the web search on Hilary's, I have found the link, It was Mary's sister Ruth married a Joseph on Christmas Day 1855. who is my gr. gr. grandfather.
Wow!!!!
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On the inside of the cover there is a lovely embossed certificate showing that it was bought with weekly instalment by a Robert Cuthbert Metcalfe in 1857.
He married Mary Lambert on May 19th 1850
They had 3 children, George, Hannah (died in infancy) and Daniel Lambert Metcalfe.
Now the thing is the next entries in the bible were for my maternal Grandparents and their 3 children.
So all these years we have wondered why it was in our family and how we were related to Robert & Mary?
Well today thanks to the web search on Hilary's, I have found the link, It was Mary's sister Ruth married a Joseph on Christmas Day 1855. who is my gr. gr. grandfather.
Wow!!!!
.
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