What was in Your Ancestor's House?
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- The best Genealogy is all about storytelling and there’s no story without a setting. Spice up your family history stories and get a clearer understanding of your ancestors’ lives by figuring out what was in their homes.
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Do you have an idea of what was in your ancestors' homes? Did you figure it out using photos, paintings, or a different kind of record? Leave a comment below!
My great grandmother had a buffalo head mounted on the wall, she passed away in the sixties at the grand old age of 99..the story I was told it was bought back by her father who was a hunter on the prairies before returning to Wales and settling down.
Oh wow that really is something to build a story around. Very interesting!
I was aware that I am "old fashioned" but I didn't know just how antiquated I truly was. I have lived my 41 years of life surrounded by over 250yrs of my ancestors possessions. Everything from the pottery jars for water to the simple chairs that great-great-great-great grandmother strapped onto the coverd wagon she brought to Illinois. I still read by the same oil lamps that my grandmother, great grandmother and great-great grandmother used. I even used the coverlets from the 1790s that every generation has used to cover their beds on their wedding night, on my own wedding night. Half of my family were wealthy and many of their objects were well preserved. The other half were miners and farmers and I do have some of their objects. They were not wealthy enough to afford 23 oil lamps and 16 candelabra. They did however take extremely care in protecting the one or two that had in their own homes and have now been passed down to me. Their large pieces of furniture seem to congest my house at times but I don't think I'd want it any other way. I don't view my ancestors as dead and gone, I view them as living if not with me, then through me. Interesting video. Glad I came across it this morning. Thanks for sharing it with us. Be blessed and be well.
What a lovely description. Thanks so much for sharing! "I view them as living if not with me, then through me." I love it. And you are very lucky to have so many of your ancestors possessions.
Hi Timothy, in future videos, I'm planning on including stories that viewers share here. I was wondering if I could include the comment you wrote above in one of them? It's just such a great description that I haven't forgotten since I first read it. Hopefully you see this message! Take care!
GenealCymru, of course you may use whatever you like of my statements. I'm pleased to be of any assistance. Hope you're keeping well . Be blessed and keep up the good work.
A great place to visit when in Wales is St Fagan’s Welsh Folk Museum. They have saved and rebuilt many Welsh historical buildings. There are many Welsh Cottages to look around plus wealthier homes including St Fagans Castle. The grounds are stunning. This museum is on the outskirts of Cardiff, South Wales. Thank you for your brilliant videos!🙂
I've seen some pictures and it looks really cool there. It came up when I was looking for images of old water mills and they have one there.
Thank you for another interesting video. My mother has her Welsh dresser in all its glory, handed down through female members of the family for quite a few generations.
One fantastic resource for this topic that I think you should pass on to your viewers would be the Museum of Welsh Life at St. Ffagans, just outside Cardiff. I'm sure you must know of it already!
Keep up the good work!
Oh how lovely. My Grandma has talked about wanting a Welsh dresser my whole life. That's so cool how your family has passed it down the generations. And good idea. I may make a short video on St. Ffagans Museum. It might be a bit tricky cause I don't think there will be many pictures that I can use cause of copyright, but I'll take a look.
I remember visiting my Taids farmer friends house in the late 70’s/80’s, looked sparse compared to even the north wales place you showed; he had absolutely nothing materially, but a more cheerful and generous man you simply wouldn’t find.
Wow, thanks for sharing! Yeah my Grampie, who was born in the 1930s, used to describe his room as having a bed, a desk, and a chair, and that's it. Rough times for a lot of people back then (and still today!)
The typical Welsh farm house or cottage would always be lime washed or lime plastered . Colour depended on the region ,often snow white. The modern ''exposed stone'' look is a fantasy projection.
Yeah the next video coming out has a few more pictures of houses, that I couldn't put in this video due to copyright, and the vast majority of them and the ones I see in my research are whitewashed.
My sixth great grandfather Benjamin Griffith who was born in 1688 at Llanllwni Caermarthenshire or as some called it the Telfi Valley, later in 1710 his father John moved them to the philadelphia area, and in 1720 Benjamin Married Sarah Miles her father who was also originally from Wales gave them a family bible, A translation of Theodore Beza printed in 1587 at London and it was kept in the family till about 1858 when it was donated to a University in Pennsylvania, Benjamins grandahter Rachel married a Powell and there home is in the National Historic Record for Historic Homes in Pennsylvania, There were about 40 Baptist Minister in the family dating back from my 7th great grandmother Jane Rhydderch Griffith and who knows how many before that.
Thanks for sharing! Such strong connections to the history of the baptists. My family is very similar, some early baptists and some of whom ended up in Pennsylvania too. Then many of the later generations became Wesleyan, Unitarian, and Anglican ministers.
Very informative video. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed! :)