Great Grandparents?

[Shirib]

My great grandmother died in 1998 she was in her early 90's. I met her when I was younger but don't really remember her much. Allah ha u naxriisto.

[BaasAbuur]

Amiir Nuur

[abdikarim86]

i've met both of my maternal great grandmothers
one is still alive the other died a few years ago

on my fathers side ...they are long dead they died
in the 50s ...although i've met a great aunt of mine who was
95 something (estimate )

[surrender]

i havent my Great Grandparents and no they not alive!

[Paddington Bear]

For people to be able to meet their great grandparents must mean that they come from families were girls (and probably boys) are married off at a very young age (under fifteen?)!

I mean, to think our great grand parents were illeterate, they couldnt read nor write-- while people like Jane Austen or any citizen of England could read, write, speak greek, french and latin in early as 14th century. How is that possible??? We have people in somalia today who are illeterate. isnt that sad?

Not all of those in Somalia were illiterate and not all the people living in England in the nineteenth century were literate.

Ps
This fascination you have with Jane Austin amuses me. Why her and not Dickens or even the Bard himself? Is it something to do with her obsession with tales about young pretty girls that are dying to get married?

[1nemansquad]

..lol, this thread waa shirqool; dadbaa loogu danleeyahey ineey iskashifaan

[Hyperactive]

nope never met any of my grandparents from my father side leave alone grandparents.
from my mother's side, my great grandfather is alive and he has kids younger than me and a wife that way younger than his grand childeren.

[snoop12]

Have you met yours.? I did mine died in the late 90s but his wife my grandfathers step mom (who he married in early 1900s) is still alive.. They must have been born in the late 1800s..

most of my fam took part in the Darwiish

Bgirl.......... how can your great grandparents be born in the late 1800s my dad was born in the early-mid 1900s i dont know when my grandfather was born but knowing my dad was the youngest he was probably born early-mid 1800s and my grandfather was also the youngest of many siblings so my great grandfather would be very early 1800s or late 1700s


horta is it normal to have kids whiles being in your 80s

[King-of-Awdal]

Never met mine but they were alive till i was around 15 and so far i have three grandparents alive.

[Basra-]

[quote="Paddington Bear"]This fascination you have with Jane Austin amuses me. Why her and not Dickensquote]


PB.....Why Austen instead of Dickens? Simply a matter of taste. Dickens central story is the tale of his misery childhood and get rich fast scheme. Almost all his stories speak of orphans mistreated and eventually gaining some random wealth out of no where. His characters dwell in the slimy slums of England, with its disgusting cast of low class vultures whose greediness has scurred even the author himself. And Dickens stories appeals to boys only.

I will pick Jane Austen calm, refined fantastically decored livingroom, over dickens dirty slums any day.Austen has an air of language, mansions, am sorry.....Estates......Mr. Darcy? Mary Crawford? How can i not love or be obsessed with Jane Austen based on the character Mary Crawford herself? She was a london elite beauty who went to the rural hampshire with musical Harp instrument, to corrupt poor bertrums and Fanny price?Robert Ferrar? The dashwoods?

Sure her central stories were mainly the pursuit of marriage in the end. Marriage to a rich man that is. Whats wrong with that? Lord byron once said---a story that ends with a death is tragedy that that ends with marriage- a comedy!

[Executive]

My maternal Great grandmother is alive. Only meet her when I was a baby. I wish to see her soon inshallah

[Ka darag]

BLOODY HELL...NO..I HAVE NO GREAT GRANPARENTS...ONLY MY GRANDMA AND GRANDPA FROM MUMS SIDE AND GRANDMA FROM DADS SIDE..

[Twisted_Logic]

This fascination you have with Jane Austin amuses me. Why her and not Dickensquote]


PB.....Why Austen instead of Dickens? Simply a matter of taste. Dickens central story is the tale of his misery childhood and get rich fast scheme. Almost all his stories speak of orphans mistreated and eventually gaining some random wealth out of no where. His characters dwell in the slimy slums of England, with its disgusting cast of low class vultures whose greediness has scurred even the author himself. And Dickens stories appeals to boys only.

I will pick Jane Austen calm, refined fantastically decored livingroom, over dickens dirty slums any day.Austen has an air of language, mansions, am sorry.....Estates......Mr. Darcy? Mary Crawford? How can i not love or be obsessed with Jane Austen based on the character Mary Crawford herself? She was a london elite beauty who went to the rural hampshire with musical Harp instrument, to corrupt poor bertrums and Fanny price?Robert Ferrar? The dashwoods?

Sure her central stories were mainly the pursuit of marriage in the end. Marriage to a rich man that is. Whats wrong with that? Lord byron once said---a story that ends with a death is tragedy that that ends with marriage- a comedy!

I wanna know how Great Expectations, David Copperfield. Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities are "get rich fast scheme"

[Basra-]

Twisted?? u r not angry me?? Rarely do i find u not angry with me. This is amazing, Dickens is your favorite author ma ha? Twisted all u mentioned, dont they talk about orgphans? Boy and girl crush and eventual reunion? All this boy subjects that bore me. If i want childhood love--i'll go for the bleeding suffering of Wuthering heighs Heathcliff!

[Ka darag]

Wuthering Heights is supposed to be good

Buuuuuuuuut, I do not like the type of English that it is written in!!!!!!!!!!