Cindy Crawford learns about her great grandfather who left his entire family for a new wife 🌳#wdytya

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[Marcel_Audubon]

"ditched his kids" I like how she's both sophisticated and down to earth at the same time

[jern]

Cindy Crawford is still so beautiful 😍

[NilesG]

1600's is NOT her grandfather it's her 6th great grand father

[lisaknox]

I discovered in 1988, before I started becoming interested in genealogy, that my paternal 2nd great-grandfather had 2 wives. He had a wife during slavery, was sent to fight in the Civil War, lost track of them, and remarried. He later found out the first family were still alive, but slave marriages were not legal, anyway. He stayed with the 2nd family but stayed in contact with his first set of children. Their mother had also remarried. I'm descended from the 2nd wife.

[Angels]

This is so interesting to trace your family history I would love to do this. They find out so many interesting things that they would of never known about their past history.

[TheKjoy]

A distant cousin did something similar. He was living in York with his wife and 4 kids with a 5th on the way. He left them to come to the US and promised to send for them. He made is way to Washington where he married a widow, lying on his marriage license about where he was from. It said New York, not York, UK. They had 4 kids in addition to her original 8. While living in Seattle, the marriage got so bad a judge sent him away. He moved to California, but only sent support payments for his kids. His second wife was a native from the Lummi tribe. Their sons were sent to a school in Pennsylvania where native kids were stripped of their language and culture. The oldest left the school early to serve in WWI. The stories of the domestic dispute and the boys were in the Seattle newspapers and my mom found them on Ancestry along with the marriage records for both wives.

[deborahkizer]

My great grandfather did pretty much the same thing. He left his wife and children, and moved a few miles down the road, and had a whole new family. My grandmother never found out what happened to him. Some of his children showed up at my grandmother's funeral to see if we were related.

[_CaliGirl]

Cindy's still fine fine😊 She's still really pretty. She was 1 of my faves back then. I always thought she was beautiful.❤

[JerryDLTN]

Capt. Thomas Trowbridge (February 08, 1598 - February 07, 1672) is Cindy Crawford's 10th great grandfather.

[Allikattoo]

I had a great uncle that did this. He left Croatia and went to Canada. Married a woman there, and she had four children I think, then one day he leaves and doesn’t come back. We found out over 100 years later from a distant cousin that was one of my grandpa’s other brother that he had moved back to Croatia and had married some woman there and had several children with her. He was a real winner too, I guess.

[Keikimainecoon]

This sort of thing sadly happened all the time but back then with women not working it put the family into poverty. And no matter how beautiful the woman with tons of kids no one married her. So sad.

[timdavis]

My 10th great-grandfather - the Mayflower passenger, Richard More, also had two wives - one in America and one in England. 😊

[demondogmom]

My grandfather was "widowed" with two sons when he met my grandmother. Digging into his sons, I found them on the census rolls living with their mother (Alice) also listed as a "widow". Apparently they got mutually "widowed" from each other.

My grandmother wasn't a saint. Her 2nd marriage was annulled but there are no records of it. I suspect, but can't prove, it was annulled the same way my grandfather was widowed...

[maggiep]

Kim Cattral's grandfather abandoned his wife and daughters. He married a woman, started a new family and moved to Australia. Her mother and aunts opted not to look up their half-siblings living in Australia.

Wait math does not add up. I am 62 my great grandfather was born in 1904, How could her great grandfather get remarried in 1641? Was he like 250 years old?

[Laura-sgss]

1641? Damn... her great grandpa?? Wait, i need to let the maths load 😂😂

[skyking]

Be careful digging in the woodpile; you never know what you might find in there.

[j.dunlop]

It's interesting to understand, our four grandparents had 8 parents, those 8 had 16 parents, so six generations back we had 128 great, great, great grandparents!😮 Picking one out, to connect emotionally is very strange, to me!? We've got huge connections to the past! (So everyone, even minorities had slave owning family going back in history! )

[estherfeldhacker]

My great grandfather & his brother did the same to their 1st families. Said they'd bring them over later & just left them high & dry.

[pnwlady]

He did his part to populate the colony. 😅