ColinUK
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This was dad’s mum’s family. There’s very little contact between the various branches that grew from Grandma and her brother.@TinaD happy birthday! Hope you can enjoy it despite the toe!
@ColinUK how exciting, such a shame the family lost touch. My family a few generations back apparently had money and land but someone gambled it away.... Not sure if it would have come down my line anyway
5.6 for me this morning. We will be playing a board game tonight, not sure who we will watch for the chimes at midnight.
In fact when he (the brother died) they didn’t tell Grandma at all.
There’s money in one root from that family line, quite a lot of money but I’ve never even met any of that lot so although they’re relations I don’t count them as “family”.
Mums lot came from peasant stock in the Pale. They had barely two buttons to scrape together between them. Until one had an illegitimate child with the local Baron who left the resultant daughter the family home, lands, business and everything that went along with it.
She married and they had five children however the property was seized and the entire family was murdered by the Nazis.
It’s actually mum who had the strongest claim to the estate and the looted art etc but the Polish government won’t compensate for the land and none of the artwork has ever been found.
One of their children made his way to Morocco via France and Spain and then went back into occupied France to cause chaos. He was eventually caught in a roundup and is presumably in an unmarked grave somewhere outside Paris. He was the last known direct descendent of that line. All of the others were murdered in various camps.
