Just had a Death cert through today for my great grandad.

[dothawkes31]

I've been using google earth to find the place he died, Weaste lane Thelwell, and just realised that's the lane I got lost down at the beginning of may after having to follow a diversion through daresbury. I must have driven past the farm (twice lol) and never realised the connection! How spooky is that? I'd just found his father-in-laws grave at daresbury that morning too. (That's the Lewis Carroll church BTW, the Alice in Wonderland window is amazing) my family used the church at the same time as Carroll.

[Count-A-Strong]

I love strange coincidences dot.
I had a friend over a couple
of weeks ago who I hadn't seen in a couple of months. Earlier that day we'd booked a cottage in the Lakes in a small village. Got talking to said friend and it turns out that the same village is where his mum and dad lived when they were first married. Strange that we should book it. AND see him on the same day.

[echokilo]

I once helped a friend look at his tree in Norfolk and we were meant to be at one village church and got lost and checked graves at one we didn't intend to visit - the church was emptying after Sunday morning communion and 2 eldery ladies approached and said they knew the surname we were looking for (we were not at a grave at this point but heading back to the car) They were right - in fact they were his great aunts!!! Very spooky!!

[echokilo]

Should have said - we had never met them before!

[fairkatrina]

one of the guys I work with lives in the house my great-great grandad lived in. if a family doesn't really move far from an area for a few generations I suppose the coinciences rack up...

[Barmaid]

I think the oddest coincidence in my tree (and there are a few) is this.

When I was a child we lived in a beautiful old farmhouse in the country. Because I was obsessed with history I wanted to find out more about the house. I got to know the details of the family that lived there and when I was old enough went off and found stuff out about them. I knew their names, where they were buried - everything.

I've been doing my family tree for a number of years and started a line a few years ago which was my father's mother's ancestors. We knew they came from North Lincolnshire but nothing else. I was really surprised when I found out that in the 1860s, three of the sons (including my gg grandfather) moved to the village in South Lincs where my father had farmed for 40 years and indeed were farming the same land. This farm had been bought in 1969 rather than inherited and Dad was really shocked to know that his own ancestor had farmed the land 100 years before.

Even more of a surprise was my gg grandfather's third marriage. He married a daughter from the house that I grew up in!!!