I was told that my grandparents met because they both attended the same church.
This always seemed a bit shaky to me - they lived in different areas of Manchester, and why my grandmother would choose to walk miles to a church not in her neighbourhood has never really made sense.
Following the receipt of a marriage cert today for her grandparents I decided to follow the siblings of each grandparent, for want of something better to do, lol.
Two of these siblings finish up living either side of my grandfather's grandfather in yet another area of Manchester - is this making sense? So, MY four sets of 2 x GGPs all knew each other as neighbours some 30 years before my grandmother was born.
Not a huge breakthrough I admit, but a nice little explanation of how my grandparents came to meet and why she was attending his church..she was dropping in to see the oldies after church!
OC
This always seemed a bit shaky to me - they lived in different areas of Manchester, and why my grandmother would choose to walk miles to a church not in her neighbourhood has never really made sense.
Following the receipt of a marriage cert today for her grandparents I decided to follow the siblings of each grandparent, for want of something better to do, lol.
Two of these siblings finish up living either side of my grandfather's grandfather in yet another area of Manchester - is this making sense? So, MY four sets of 2 x GGPs all knew each other as neighbours some 30 years before my grandmother was born.
Not a huge breakthrough I admit, but a nice little explanation of how my grandparents came to meet and why she was attending his church..she was dropping in to see the oldies after church!
OC
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