Family Connections!!
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A number of my ancestors have been placed in the cemetery at Blackford in Perthshire. A few years ago when I was visiting the cemetery whilst trying extend my family tree I came across two specific gravestones of a number relating to my family. These headstones were for two different people of different families, one male and one female, aged 21 and 82 respectively. According to the headstones they had died on the same day i.e. same day, same month, same year. Perhaps nothing too exceptional about that, but one surname was Hally the other was Hardie, both families local to Perthshire. Now my name is Hally Hardie. This experience left me with a distinctly creepy feeling. Had the dates been totally different there would have been no problem, but ................
Date submitted:Tue, 06 Jan 2015 13:09:40 +0000Coincidence ID:7951
