Posts in September 24, 2023

My second great-grandmother lived with her maternal grandparents from about the age of eight until shortly before her marriage. I initially assumed it was because her own parents had so many children. While that may have been a part of it, there likely was more. I’m not certain when she began living with her grandparents, but after learning more about her grandparents’ family I discovered that there were several things that took place about the same time she began living with them: Her mother’s younger sister had a child whom the grandparents raised from birth. All of her grandparents children were out of the house with their own families. Her grandfather’s mother moved in with her grandparents. Those three things may have played a role in why gg-grandma […]