What interesting information do you know about other people in our family?

My great-grandfather on my Dad’s side was in the British Army in Ireland around the 1850’s as, I think, a groomsman for the regiment horses. My Dad’s father emigrated to Australia in the early 1900’s and for some reason which I never knew, didn’t get his wife and Dad to join him there – was it grandma wouldn’t to go or did he escape!!!!! Mum’s Dad was a tailor – I was told that the reason that they moved into Allen house was that his cutting room was upstairs and the staircase was wide enough to carry a bolt of cloth up. Sounds a tall but quite likely story.