Family Folklore and Secrets

New York Red · October 1, 2019

A cousin of mine just dug up an arrest record of my Great-grandfather at the South Glamorgan archives. There he is with his big mustache and scruffy clothes. He got nicked for trying to break down a door. I don't know much else about him other than he died of cirrhosis of the liver when he was 53.

I've got loads of mad stuff like that in my family though, on both sides of the family. My great aunt was supposedly offered to adopt the Marquis of Bute's illegitimate daughter in the early 1900's. My Aunt Joan's biological father was also executed in New York in the 1920's for murdering a guy on the Lower East Side. And, when my old man ran a pub in Tiger Bay, one of his regulars was one of Tapscott and Widdecombe - two sailors who were adrift after being torpedoed in WW2 and supposedly ate the galley boy to survive. The blokes in the pub would bust his chops late in the evening when they were all oiled up.

Anyone got their own?

Cam · October 1, 2019

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