Not strictly KNIBBS but just wanted to share this with everyone. As well as researching the KNIBBS side of my Family History, I tend to "dabble" with research into my mother's background (the FUTCHER Family in Hampshire) as well as my in-laws (the PETTY Family on the Isle of Wight) although I must admit, very little time is given to either. Quite recently, a query I had posted onto a mailing list a couple of years ago in an effort to trace the PETTY family back further was answered by a man named Pete Morall in the US. I knew the PETTYs originated from Hampshire but was stuck. Pete has an interest in the PETTY family and simply asked if I had made progress. I haven't, so I assumed that would be the end of it. However, Pete Morrall found my KNIBBS web site and noticed the links to my FUTCHER pages - another family of interest to him. On the FUTCHER pages I have reference to a document from the 15th May 1856 relating to probate for someone's estate. The document was witnessed and signed by (amongst others) a William FUTCHER and a Jas. PETTY Pete Morrall wrote to me today after studying my FUTCHER data and has informed me that the Jas. PETTY who signed the document was in fact John James PETTY. He and William FUTCHER were first cousins six times removed. So, it would appear that my wife and I are not only husband and wife, but cousins - probably several dozens of times removed but related non-the-less. I hasten to add that I haven't yet checked it all out myself. Other amazing coincidences are that Pete Morall was born in the Isle of Wight, as was my wife Shirley). He worked and lived in Basingstoke, Hampshire (which is where I was born and spent the first 14 years of my life), and a close friend of his wife lived in one of the houses in Basingstoke which I refer to in my KNIBBS web site. It's an old thatched cottage where one of my uncles was born. Don
Wow Don, talk about a heap of coincidences!!!! It's amazing you never met in the past, perhaps it was fate that you didn't until you had your Knibbs tree so advanced! ;D Take care, Rob. IBSSG Stuttgart, Germany, Honey's Home of Genealogy www.honeyshome.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Don Knibbs To: KNIBB-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 9:52 AM Subject: [K/NIBB/S] Full Circle? Not strictly KNIBBS but just wanted to share this with everyone. As well as researching the KNIBBS side of my Family History, I tend to "dabble" with research into my mother's background (the FUTCHER Family in Hampshire) as well as my in-laws (the PETTY Family on the Isle of Wight) although I must admit, very little time is given to either. Quite recently, a query I had posted onto a mailing list a couple of years ago in an effort to trace the PETTY family back further was answered by a man named Pete Morall in the US. I knew the PETTYs originated from Hampshire but was stuck. Pete has an interest in the PETTY family and simply asked if I had made progress. I haven't, so I assumed that would be the end of it. However, Pete Morrall found my KNIBBS web site and noticed the links to my FUTCHER pages - another family of interest to him. On the FUTCHER pages I have reference to a document from the 15th May 1856 relating to probate for someone's estate. The document was witnessed and signed by (amongst others) a William FUTCHER and a Jas. PETTY Pete Morrall wrote to me today after studying my FUTCHER data and has informed me that the Jas. PETTY who signed the document was in fact John James PETTY. He and William FUTCHER were first cousins six times removed. So, it would appear that my wife and I are not only husband and wife, but cousins - probably several dozens of times removed but related non-the-less. I hasten to add that I haven't yet checked it all out myself. Other amazing coincidences are that Pete Morall was born in the Isle of Wight, as was my wife Shirley). He worked and lived in Basingstoke, Hampshire (which is where I was born and spent the first 14 years of my life), and a close friend of his wife lived in one of the houses in Basingstoke which I refer to in my KNIBBS web site. It's an old thatched cottage where one of my uncles was born. Don ============================== You can manage your RootsWeb-Review subscription from http://newsletters.rootsweb.com/