Ancestral-Tardis

I have a few ancestors who never died. I’m sure you have some too. Tracing their deaths leads you to believe that they are still walking around having the occasional hamburger with Elvis. Actually, if truth be known, I also have some ancestors who’s births were rather, well let’s say, ‘unique’ too.

These ancestors are quite a long way back in ‘the tree’ and not many people have much information on them. Except of course, those people who religiously hunt for virgin births and spontaneous combustion deaths using all the freely available information from other people’s trees who also believe such things. Take for instance my great great great great grandfather, Patrick Doyle.

His parents, according to every family history self proclaimed expert on various sites I frequent, were Richard and Mary Doyle. There is no further information forthcoming from these experts for Richard and Mary other than their birth dates, which according to the masses were in the 1830′s and their birth location, which was in New South Wales, Australia. Fair enough I hear you say. What’s she getting at? Oh, just that the only actual known facts about Patrick’s birth is that it was in 1798 and in Ireland.   Hmmm.

Let’s do the maths and work out just what must have happened... Richard and Mary are born in 1830-ish which gives us the probability that they started breeding about 15 or 20 years later which would make the date about 1845 – 1850 of their first born. We don’t know if Patrick had brothers or sisters but let’s say he was the firstborn in this case. So if Richard and Mary were the parents then Patrick couldn’t have been born until about 1850; but we know for a fact that he was about 52 at this stage and had already had a brood of his own.  That’s OK, there still must be logic here somewhere if all those people believe this to be the case.

So, how could it have happened that Patrick was born 52 years before his parents gave birth to him in another country? Could it be a projection into the future and he was actually just a hologram his entire life until he saw his son Richard born which then started a chain of events that circulated in ever diminishing circles until he actually disappeared into his own…… Oh I’ll leave the rest to your imagination.

Either that, or a hell of a lot of people are also caught up in Patrick’s ever diminishing hologram of existence. Hopefully, one day, they too will disappear into their own….. tardis. All I know is that a hell of a lot of people must believe that Doctor Who is real.