I have been working on our family tree for over 15 years; it is a frustrating, headache inducing, labour of love. I knew when I started out, it would be tough. Oh boy, was I wrong; it is beyond tough. Oh sure, modern family is relatively easy but even modern doesn’t take into consideration, family secrets/skeletons and wishful thinking.
Anyway, so I’m working on lineage from the U.K and I come across a 8x great-grandmother. The information tells me she died at the Tower of London…Whoa, heavy mystery time!!! I researched, researched and researched some more and I could not find a single piece of evidence for the claim; in fact, I found the opposite. No executions held in the Tower in that time frame. So, back to the drawing board for her. Not a big deal as this was way back in the early 1700’s.
If you are on that genealogy journey? Take everything with a grain of salt and research. Don’t rely on only one source or genealogy site. You will just do yourself a disservice.
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Could your ancestor have died while being imprisoned in the tower of London for many years? Maybe she wasn’t actually executed there, but died of other causes.
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Its always possible but I can’t find any records of her being imprisoned either. I need to dig deeper, although there was a huge smallpox epidemic at that time. Sighh…when I say rabbit hole? I mean RABBIT HOLE!!! ❤️ Thanks for the interaction.
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