Ancestors

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When my late father was researching his side of the family in the 1980s he discovered that his grandfather had lived in Bristol in the 1870s in Victoria Road and had been a Baptist minister at the City Road Baptist Chapel. I lived in Bristol from 1971 (attending the University) and lived in my second year in a flat in Victoria Walk - this road had been renamed - and my flat was about twenty yards (and a hundred years) from my great-grandfathers house. I moved from this flat into a house in St Pauls which was off City Road and so just round the corner from the Baptist Chapel where he had preached. My parents gave me the same two christian names as one of my ancestors without knowledge of such.
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Date submitted:Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:24:58 +0000Coincidence ID:3992