Quote Originally Posted by Heathblue View Post
Many will remember The Alien (Mark), his wife Tricia put out a FB message yesterday with it being his birthday, I know he did a few roof jobs on here for some, myself included, was talking to Mark right up until the time of his passing, a brilliant guy always tried to avoid any conflict on here, big turnout at his funeral for a much loved guy within his community. RIP Mark.
About a year before his sad passing, Mark asked me to investigate a line of his family tree. It was challenging but we got there in the end - forty-eight A4 pages and a few months later. There were stevedores at Gravesend; illegal marriages (like an avuncular marriage when a niece married her uncle); an ancestor who was killed by accidentally being knocked down by a cow; another who was 'living by the side of the road in a tent' according to the census enumerator; photos of two great grand-uncles and his grtx2 grandparents; his grtx7 grandfather who rejoiced in the name Cornelius and owned his own boat.

Mark wasn't in the least phased by any of these and the rest of the revelations and was particularly tickled that he had a parish constable as well as a police constable in his family tree.

Mark was a gent and fun to be with. RIP