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Four days ago, on November 5th, it was the 126th anniversary of my great uncle Ernest Cooper Smith's birth.
On November 6th, it was my great-great grandmother, Jane Raitt's 163rd birthday.
Yesterday, November 7th, was the 270th anniversary of the marriage of my 6 x great grandparents, James Martin and Margaret Seymour.
Today, November 8th is the 95th anniversary of Ernest Cooper Smith's death at Passchendaele.
I reckon that I could fill up most of the calendar with the BMDs of my ancestors but it would be more fun if we all did it together, so come on - let's see if we can have at least one person's life celebrated for every day of the year.
Over to you.................
Moderator Comment: because of the size, split to a seperate topic for each month.
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My daughter would have been 42 on 11th November.
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It`s my birthday next week does that count?!
2 days after is my sisters birthday
My granddad died 38 years ago tomorrow
His birthday was the 25th of November he would have been 111 years old
Regards
Sarah
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I think we can count our own birthdays and those of our offspring. But it would be good if we could manage to do it on the actual day, so that there is always someone being remembered.
I have a few lined up for the rest of November so, providing I'm able to be online on those days, I'll give them each their own turn.
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It's my "premmie" granddaughter's birthday..............she's 5 ;D She was so tiny...........
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Its my Grand-aunt Annies 139th birthday today .... never been able to find her death.
She was Annie Hoare, and lived in Risca, Mon, and had lots of children who must have had descendents ....
I did briefly consider putting an advert in a Risca local paper "Are there any Hoares in Risca" ..... but thought it might be misunderstood !
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My Dad would have been 90 today :)
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My gt grandad Ambrose Llewellyn Powell was born on the 5th Nov 1882 ... so he would have been 130 years old, last Monday ...
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I don't have a proper one for 9th November so I'll just celebrate the fact that my grandson is five months old today. :)
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Congratulations to his Mum and Dad, and the NHS for that .....
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William Kingsman born 9 November 1826 in Clerkenwell. An ivory turner.
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My 2 x g.grandfather died 9 November 1877 in Halesworth, Suffolk
My 2nd cousin twice removed died 9 November 1955 in Tasmania
One of my aunts died 9 November 1986 in Lancashire.
But more importantly one of our grandsons is 20 today.
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Found some more
My 3 x g.g aunt was buried on 9 November 1803 in Frampton, Lincs
My husband's 4 x g.g.uncle was buried 9 November 1851 in Warwick.
My 5 x g.g.grandparents married 9 November 1762 in Haddenham, Cambs
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Gosh, this is a busy day for your family, Lizzie! ;D
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A very distant one for me today.
November 10th 1824 George Grose ( 1st cousin, five times removed) was born in Portsea, Hampshire.
I have nobody until 13th now.
Anyone else joining in? ???
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Not quite so distant; a 1st cousin, twice removed:
Doris May Rainer born in Crayford in 1908.
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Ooops, missed a couple, I think ... or almost-missed, at least: -
Archibald Mitchell, born Wemyss, Buckhaven, Scotland 5/11/1922 - and - his twin, William McIntyre Mitchell (my Mum's cousins)
Naomi Ruby Delves, born Ghinni Ghinni, NSW 7/11/1909 (OH's aunty)
Elizabeth Foster, b. Buckhaven, Scotland 8/11/1829 - and - her twin brother, John Foster :) (my tree, but I've yet to work out what relations they were to me!)
Charles Tatham Shores, b. Worthing, West Sussex, 4/11/1853 (my side again, no idea what relation!)
Archibald Frederick Tatham, b. Leichhardt NSW 6/11/1898 (my gt gt uncle), and his elder brother ...
Charles Christopher Tatham, b. North Carlton VIC 11/11/1892
:)
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As I have no BMDs for November 11th, I shall use this thread to remember members of my family who were casualties of war.
8th November 1914 - Private Ernest Cooper Smith. Missing in Action at the Battle of Herenthage Chateau. remembered on The Menin Gate. My great uncle, grandfather of another Rootschatter, Red Scooter.
Christopher Wilberforce Smith, Private 2nd Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment. Dies 26th July 1917. Remembered on The Menin Gate. My great uncle.
James Shaw Howe. Australian Infantry. Wounded 4th October 1917, near Ypres. Died of wounds 7th October 1917. Buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery. My great uncle.
Peter Grant Howe. Merchant Navy, Assistant Steward. Died aboard SS Vancouver, 21st September 1941, aged sixteen. My uncle.
I am thinking of them and of the shocking waste of so many more young lives and wondering will mankind ever learn from its mistakes.
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One can but hope, Jen
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Florence Beatrice Rainer, 1874, born in Plumstead; my 2 x gt. aunt.
Known to me as "naughty Florence". ;)
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How lovely. Do you have any ideas as to why? ;D
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Yes! Went to Canada with her brother, back again by 1901 as "Mrs" with a young daughter (illegitimate ...I have the registration), then back to Canada; possibly putting young daughter into a Canadian orphanage for a while. A letter between two of her sisters says "Florrie in trouble again", she finally married in 1911 in Winnipeg and died in 1955 in Vancouver.
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Today I've got
My 6 x g.granddparents married in 1716
My 3 x g.g.uncle was baptised in 1770
My 2 x g.g.uncle was baptised in 1821
My 3 x g.grandmother was buried in 1828.
Also remembering today my g.uncle George Reuben Benson, who died on 24 November 1917 during the Battle of Cambrai, France
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Born 11th November 1865 in Bristol, Emma Jones, one of my ggm :)
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Sarah Muggeridge born 11th Nov 1785 in Eling, Hants daughter of Joseph and ??? - one of my gggg grandmothers
Jan ;)
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Edward Bailey, 1824 in Islington, London, son of James and Hamutal. A 2 xgg uncle.
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Hannah Saunders born 12th Nov 1862 in Lilley, Herts daughter of David and Hannah (nee Bean) - my great grandmother
Jan ;)
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Edward Bailey, 1824 in Islington, London, son of James and Hamutal. A 2 xgg uncle.
Hamutal? I've not met that before. ???
I shall be back on this calendar tomorrow; nothing for today. :(
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Edward Bailey, 1824 in Islington, London, son of James and Hamutal. A 2 xgg uncle.
Hamutal? I've not met that before. ???
It's a biblical name and has been transcribed as Hamuta/Hamlet/Hannubal............. ::)
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Its a completely new one to me !
Learn something new every day on RootsChat !!
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I've forgotten who told me but here it is:
http://www.biblegateway.com/resources/all-women-bible/Hamutal
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13th November 1914 Captain Charles John Chard Barrett DSO, Royal Scots Fusiliers, Belgium, nephew of Col John Rouse Merriott Chard VC
13th November 1944 Pfc Robert Lyttleton Simons, 377th Infantry Regiment, US Army, France, posthumously awarded the Silver Star for gallantry
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Harriet Knight - born November 13th 1864, Brindley Ford, Staffordshire. My great grandmother. She married, in Middlesbrough, at the age of seventeen and died at thirty-four, having given birth to seven children. Her mother spent many years in and out of prison for theft and other offences. I doubt whether Harriet's life was an easy one.
Margaret Mary Isabella Daniel, born 13th November 1868, Cruden, Aberdeenshire. My 2 x great aunt. I don't know much about Margaret but her father/step-father was a quarry manager, a master mason who stood on various committees and whose voice was heard and respected in the community.
Two girls growing up at the same time in very different circumstances.
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Died 13th November 1843; my favourite name amongst my ancestors .... Ichabod Pomeroy !
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My 4g grandfather James Burn b 13/11/1783 at Linton, Roxburghshire, son of George & Janet Burn (nee Smith)
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Agnes Kate Rainer, born 1906 in Crayford; daughter of Albert Henman Arthur and Edith Kate.
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Nothing from me for the next few days but do keep adding yours. It would be nice to hear any stories, or snippets of their lives, when you post your ancestors' BMDs.
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Oops forgot 13 November - electricians in who turned off power, then I went out to The Magic Circle in London.
My 3 x g.g.uncle and aunt married in 1786
My OH's 3 x g.g.uncle and aunt married in 1786 (not the same couple as above)
My 7 x g.g.grandfather was baptised in 1690
My 3 x g.g.uncle died in 1881
My last surviving aunt died in 2011
And the most important it was one of my son's birthday.
For today, I have
My 2 x g.g.aunt and uncle married 1874
My 7 x g.grandfather was baptised 1630
My 2 x g.g.uncle was baptised 1852
My 7 x g.g.aunt died 1680
My 2 x g.grandfather died 1877
And my younger brother (now sadly deceased) married 1981.
My OH also has ancestors with events this day.
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NOVEMBER 5TH 1955 Got married. 57 years on and still going strong.
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It would be nice to hear any stories, or snippets of their lives, when you post your ancestors' BMDs.
Got an interesting one for tomorrow then.
Shotley50 - Many congratulations.
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My 4g Uncle George Herbert b 14/11/1798 Branton Northumberland, son of Thomas and Mary Herbert nee Tait.
My 4g Aunt Margaret Falconer (daughter of John Falconer and Margaret Hardy) m James Brown 14/11/1840 Coldingham, Berwickshire.
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I just had a look at the calendar on my family tree package and I only have 7 days in the year when there is nothing happening. 2 in March, 1 June, 1 July, 2 September and 1 in December :o ;D ;D
Terry
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I must have a look at mine .... see if it also has that facility.
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On this day in 1948 .............Prince Charles was born ;D
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YES ! I have a calendar ....
And it shows me I've missed:
9th November 1871, birth of my Great Aunt Lizzie's husband, George Walmsley Stubbs; he went to Canada about 10 years before she did; they married in 1899 and spent a few years travelling in a covered waggon, looking to buy a homestead in Montana or the Canadian prairies, and the same waggon in which she gave birth to a couple of her children. He was from Manchester originally; she from Hampshire. They bought a quarter in Saskatchewan where they first lived in a sod house, and then a wooden house, before moving to retire in B.C.
It all sounds very 'Little House on the Prairie' !!
And by coincidence, his grand-daughter Kay was born on the same date, exactly 70 years later.
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On this day 97 years ago, about a mile from where I am typing this message, my 4xgreat grandmother died following being burnt the previous day when her apron caught fire!!! Also I had an email come through earlier today from my local Bereavment services showing me the location of her grave....now there's a coincidence for ya ;)
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Joseph Simons died on 14th November 1843 in the Castle of Perote, Mexico. He was one of the Texans on the Mier Expedition; he drew a white bean, but later escaped, was recaptured and died as a prisoner of war.
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And for once I'm early for the 15th November. ::)
My 4 x g.grandparents married in 1768.
When my 4 x g.grandfather made his will in 1811 he described himself as a yeoman, however, in a book about the village where he lived, it states that he built the oldest inn in the village in 1777. In 1811, 7 years before his death, he passed the inn on to the second of his three sons. Perhaps that explains why in his will he said he was a yeoman. When he died his personal estate and effects when the will was proved "don’t amount to more than £600" (Using average earnings that would be worth £430,000 in 1818). Around 1830 the inn and the land were purchased by a large land owning family. Later on the public house became the vicarage. ::)
I've always had in mind that a yeoman was only just above an ag.lab in the scheme of things, but I've just looked up the definition and it seems it was a man with some money.
A man holding and cultivating a small landed estate; a freeholder. or -
A person qualified for certain duties and rights, such as to serve on juries and vote for the knight of the shire, by virtue of possessing free land of an annual value of 40 shillings.
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Charles Henry Rainer, born 1872 in Plumstead. Went to Canada with his sister ("naughty Florence"), married an Irish girl and died in 1945 in Toronto; he is buried in Mount Hope Cemetery.
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I just had a look at the calendar on my family tree package and I only have 7 days in the year when there is nothing happening. 2 in March, 1 June, 1 July, 2 September and 1 in December :o ;D ;D
Terry
Sounds really useful, what package is this?
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15/11/1853, Geelong, VIC - Duncan Dunbar Tatham named in the Victorian Government Gazette as being appointed as a gaoler/turnkey at the (then) new Geelong Gaol.
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I just had a look at the calendar on my family tree package and I only have 7 days in the year when there is nothing happening. 2 in March, 1 June, 1 July, 2 September and 1 in December :o ;D ;D
Terry
Sounds really useful, what package is this?
Legacy, I think you can now download certain full versions for free
Terry
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1. Helen Spark nee Falconer 5g aunt b 15/11/1794 Coldingham Berwickshire, daughter of George Falconer and Beatrice Mack.
2. Thomas Borthwick 2g grandfather b 15/11/1846 Yarrow Selkirkshire, son of Robert Johnstone Borthwick and Jean Hastie
3. John Cowe White 1st cousin 4 times removed b 15/11/1857 Ayton Berwickshire son of Alexander White and Agnes Cowe
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(Is this allowed ??)
15th Nov., 1953 .... birth of a certain badger who is also a RootsChat Marquessate ! Happy birthday to him !!
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My uncle, John Arthur James Barham, born 1910 in Shoreditch, London; after army service in WW2 became an antiques dealer in Portobello Road. He died in 1999.
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(Is this allowed ??)
15th Nov., 1953 .... birth of a certain badger who is also a RootsChat Marquessate ! Happy birthday to him !!
Most certainly it is allowed. Belated birthday greetings from me. :)
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Two today:
Richard Charles Kingsman, born 1845, in Walworth, Surrey. My 2xgt. grandfather who, rather inconveniently, seems neither to have registered nor had baptised his son John, my gt. grandfather. ::)
Anne Rainer, my 2xgt aunt, born 1876, in Sutton at Hone, Kent. Another sibling of Charles and "naughty Florence". She married George Taylor in 1890........lost track of her.....just too many George and Anne Taylors around.
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George Burn 4g uncle b 17/11/1812 Lilliesleaf, Roxburghshire, son of James Burn (Blacksmith) & Janet (Jessie) Burn nee Davidson. Died bfr 1823 when 2nd George was born.
My 3g grandparents married 17/11/1822 Haddington, Haddingtonshire. Francis Combe (Brass Finisher) died bfr 1828 when Elizabeth Combe nee Randell remarried to a Benjamin Murdoch. Elizabeth died of Cholera in Hawick Sept 1849....buried in a communal grave for all the Cholera victims at Wellogate Cemetery Hawick.....Still looking for Francis Combes death :(
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I've only 4 ancestors for today and 3 of those are rather distant:
1st cousin 11 times removed ??? born this day in 1556
3 x g.g.aunt - baptised this day in 1776
1st cousin 3 times removed - died this day in 1916
Mum’s eldest sister died this day in 1920. She was engaged to be married but died of TB, although she had haemoptysis for 3 days which is probably the reason she died when she did. She would have been my aunt but she died before she became anyone’s aunt, my oldest cousin wasn't born until 1927.
This is Elsie
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Missed yesterday ::) ;D
My 5g grandmother Beatrice Falconer nee Mack b 16/11/1751, Bunkle & Preston, Berwickshire, daughter of John Mack and Jean nee Fish.......married George Falconer 18/12/1779 in Bunkle & Preston. George was the son of John Falconer & Margaret Hay.
Andrew Turnbull 4g grandfather b 16/11/1796 Yarrow, Selkirkshire son of Walter Turnbull & Agnes nee Wight. Andrew married Isabella Brydon daughter of John Brydon & Euphemia Laidlaw.... Coincidentally Andrew and Isabella died with 25 days of each other 5/1/1865 and 30/1/1865 both from stomach cancer!
I am hoping by posting all these names each day that others who are also looking at one or more of the families will find me....and I'll have a new rellie ::) :) :) :)
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How sad Lizzie and such a nice looking woman.
Terry
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Great-great grandmother Mary Rebecca Langdale born 17th November 1789; baptised in St Giles Cripplegate 14th December, died 10th September 1880 in Swansea. Her father was Peter Langdale, a coal merchant, who spent time in debtor's prison in 1801:
A true and perfect schedule and account of [] Peter Langdale, formerly of Westmoreland Buildings, late of Aldersgate Street in the Parish of St Botolph, Dealer in Corn and Coals now confined in His Majesty's Prison of Ludgate in the City of London containing an account of my real and personal estate and effects for the benefit of my creditors pursuant to a certain act of Parliament made and passed in the forty-first year of his present Majesty viz King George the Third and intituled an Act for the Relief of certain Insolvent Debtors.
Real estate: I have none
Personal estate: I have none
I have not any sum or sums of money exceeding five pounds nor doth the whole of my effects exceed thirty pounds
Peter Langdale
She was evidently a fiery character. Her grand-daughter wrote of her:
She was a wildly jealous woman and when her husband ordered his horse to be brought round at a given time, she’d order hers to be saddled and kept in the yard. He’d mount at the front door, she at the back and she’d ride after him keeping him in sight till his return home. She was so unpleasant a woman that my father never allowed my mother to meet her, “Apart, you are quite good friends, if you meet there will be endless trouble.”
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That really paints a picture of a very strong woman!
I have only one today and a distant one at that.
17th November 1881, Ralph Cant, was born in Brightlingsea, Essex. My 1st cousin, three times removed.
This is making me feel that I need to get to grips with sending for more certificates. I have approximate dates for so many people but I know I could be missing them off here because I don't have accurate information.
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November 18th 1846, James Daniel, born Cruden, Aberdeenshire. My g.g.great uncle.
November 18th 1923, George Raitt died, Paradise Cottage, Moneymusk, Aberdeenshire. Another g.g.great uncle.
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18/11/1832, Mary Korff born in Kirkley, Suffolk, daughter of John Korff and his wife Mary Gordon. Mary Gordon was the sister of my gt gt gt grandmother Elizabeth, second wife of surgeon Christopher Tatham. Not 100% sure, but I suspect this John Korff is the sea captain that Coffs Harbour was named after (with incorrect spelling, obviously!). This daughter, Mary, died of scarlet fever in 1840, aged just 8, aboard the "Louisa Campbell".
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No close ones today.
James Haliburton b 18/11/1869 Arngast, Fife d 07/09/1956 Napier NZ 2nd cousin 3 x removed
James & Agnes Haliburton nee Haining m 18/11/1864 Orwell Kinross, James is 1st cousin 4 x removed.
Alexander & Margaret Falconer nee Clarkson m 18/11/1832 West Calder, West Lothian....both died Bayfield Ontario. Alexander 1st cousin 5 x removed.
Jane Hastie c 18/11/1841 Duns Berwickshire 2nd cousin 4 x removed.
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Sorry .... two days late.
Thomas Vincent, born 16th Nov. 1740 in Minty, Wiltshire. His Grandfather, John Vencent, was married to Susanna Heale (or Hull) on 3 November, 1695 .... so one of my earliest ones. I'm still searching for more details of this distant branch of my ancestry ... but not very interesting so far, as they are just names at the moment .... I like to find the flesh on the bones !
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Only a day late...
Rev John Jaffray, Minister in Dunbar, married Isabella Lucas in Dunbar on 17th November 1824.
John was my great-great-great-uncle.
Their daughter, Janet Smart Jaffray, born 1834 and died 1907, died intestate, and the legal case following her death provided a hugely important key to unlocking my Jaffray family.
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My Jaffrays are from Aberdeenshire. Don't suppose yours go that far north do they?
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No, I'm pretty convinced "my" Jaffrays are all very much Stirling area. Most were small tenant farmers, nailers or smiths. Plenty of 19th century emigration to Canada, NZ, Australia and, at least temporarily, to US and South Africa. More frustrating is that a genealogy published in the 1920s is widely held to be strewn with errors.
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Shame. It would be really great if people started making connections through the sharing of BMDs on here. :)
I'd never come across the name Jaffray until I started researching my family. It would appear to be more common than I originally thought.
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Robert Jaffray, my great-great uncle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jaffray - and all from very humble roots.
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Robert Jaffray, my great-great uncle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jaffray - and all from very humble roots.
Coo, there's posh for you! ;D
Mine were, I suspect, even more humbly rooted and to the best of my knowledge, never moved away from where they started out.
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If my Dad was still with us it would have been his birthday today 18th November.
Regards panda
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I'll be out tomorrow, so can I record my grandson Sean, aged nine tomorrow .... and was delivered by his aunt (the one who lives in the village near me) whose birthday is the day after, the 20th !! She's a bit older than nine !
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Today is the 1st birthday of my youngest grandchild, Heath, who was born at home; just like his big sisters. :)
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Very quiet in my tree today. I can only find two distant ancestors and one husband of a distant ancestor.
My half first cousin once removed's husband was born in 1898. The half comes from the fact that my g.gran had two families so my gran had a half sister from whom this half first cousin once removed was descended.
My 4 x g.g.aunt married in 1795
My 1st cousin 6 times removed was buried in 1830.
Lizzie
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My 6g grandparents Thomas and Elizabeth Galbraith nee Thieffie m 19/11/1731 Oldhamstocks, Berwickshire (I have 9 variations of Elizabeths maiden name...this one appeared on the OPR marriage)
My 4 g Uncle Walter Cunningham m 2nd wife Jane Thomson at 26 Maitland Street, Glasgow 19/11/1866.
2nd cousin twice removed Josiah (living) b 19/11/1999 Nanaimo, Vancouver.
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Lizzie, I just noticed you had Gilchrist in your family, my Gilchrists were in the Stobo /Peeblesshire area my 5 g grandparents were Peter/Agnes Gilchrist nee Denham. Any connection?
I also did my friends tree as a 40th birthday pressie, her mother was a Gilchrist and her lot moved down through from Lanarkshire to Peeblesshire to Berwickshire
Added, her 4 g's were Robert Gilchrist and Mary Gillespie, Wiston and Roberton, Lanarkshire
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A blank day for me today. My Family Tree programme doesn't seem to do a calendar which tells me what happened day by day. So I have bought myself a really cheap diary and when I have time ::) I shall do it all myself, by trawling through the whole lot and making notes of all BMDs.
Then, if I have even more spare time, I shall look at other notable dates, like when my great grandfather became a master mariner, and the day he took part in a massive sea rescue. Oh, and the dates of the Quarter Sessions when my gggrandmother was sent to prison. ;D
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My grandfather Thomas Murray was born on the 19th November 1896.
He served with the RNAS as a mechanic on airfields in northern France throughout WWI.
He lived to the age of 96.
Pat ...
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20/11/1825 - birth of Justina Louisa Tatham, daughter of surgeon Christopher Tatham and his first wife Justina Dunbar (sister of Duncan Dunbar II).
20/11/1855 - death of Justina Louisa Tatham Shores, wife of John Wallis Shores, ... on her 30th birthday, and two months after birth of her fourth child.
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(Possible) Living Freeman nee Buckland b 20/11/1916 California 4th cousin twice removed.
(Probable) Living Freeman, daughter of above b 20/11/1942 Bakersfield California 5th cousin once removed.
I do have first names but just incase!!
My g grandmother Margaret Willison Combe nee Lamb b 20/11/1864 in Hawick, wife of Walter Lyon Combe. One of 3 illigitimate daughters born to my gg grandmother before she married and went on to have another 6 children.
My Aunt told me she overheard my Nana (her mother) and a sister (Mamie) talking about their mother Margaret. My g Aunt had commented to my Nana 'Of course our mothers father was the Duke of Buccleuch' 8) :P As soon as my g Aunt had gone my aunt asked my Nana if her gran really had been the Duke of Buccleuchs daughter .......reply was 'Your Aunt Mamie doesn't half talk rubbish, her father was a chauffeur with the Duke of Buccleuch' ::) ;D ;D ;D .....No title for me then :'( ;D ;D ;D ;D
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My 4 x g.g.uncle was baptised in 1762
My 7 x g.g.uncle was baptised in 1671
My 9 x g.g.aunt was baptised in 1608
One of my aunts died in 1995
My 8 x g.grandfather was buried in 1674.
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Leonard Charles Pain, born 1922 in Shoreditch; died in 1986. A 1st cousin once removed.
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I love the 'chaffeur to the Duke' instead of being the Duke himself !!
Reminds me of my however greats grandfather being the Stephenson who invented The Rocket ... turned out he was (possibly) one of the firemen/stokers on it at some unspecified later date. Still, a small claim to fame !
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20 November 1883 my great-great-aunt Harriot Glascodine, née Simons, died in Swansea. Her husband was Richard Glascodine, secretary to the Llanelly Railway and Dock Company, which was absorbed by the Great Western Railway.
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Happy birthday to my #3 daughter .... 34 today ! Born in Africa, she took her first bush camping trip aged about three or four weeks ! She's been a bit unorthodox ever since ....
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Happy birthday to my #3 daughter .... 34 today ! Born in Africa, she took her first bush camping trip aged about three or four weeks ! She's been a bit unorthodox ever since ....
Well hardly surprising when you consider her ma! :)
Happy birthday Lydart's daughter. :) :)
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I take that as a great compliment Jen !!
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20th November 1884, the day my great granny died, at the age of 22 .....
2 weeks after she gave birth to my granny and her twin sister.
She died of phthisis and exhaustion.
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21/11/1876, Christopher Tatham (one of many!) son of Christopher Tatham and his wife Julia Mackwood, born in Clapham Park, Surrey. A year later, his father died :( ... Christopher Sr was the brother of my 2xgt grandfather.
21/11/1834, Catherine Ferrier Masson, daughter of John Masson and his wife Margaret Dunbar, baptised at St Alphage, Greenwich. Margaret Dunbar was one of the sisters of Duncan Dunbar II, the shipping magnate.
21/11/1907 - Charles Joseph Sing Hee, son of George Sing Hee and his wife Marion Powell, born in Surry Hills NSW. Marion was the sister of my gt grandad.
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3g Uncle Benjamin Chisholm, b 21/11/1838 Earlston, Berwickshire.
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Baptised in 1742 my 5 x g.g.aunt
Death in1933 my great aunt
Death in 1988 my 3rd cousin once removed
Buried in 1872 my husband’s 2 x g.grandmother
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Amelia Alice Smith, known to friends and family as Cissy, died 21/11/1945 in Middlesbrough. My maternal grandmother. Died six years before I was born but I sometimes feel really close to her. This photograph looks like both of my daughters.
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Died 23/11/1867, Glebe NSW, my gt gt grandfather's first wife Emily Carter. She had been baptised in Parramatta on the 24/11/1839, the daughter of Ambrose Carter and his wife Catherine Sewell.
Died 23/11/1908 at Lumphinnans No. 11 Pit, Ballingry, Fife, ... my gt grandfather Alexander Kinnear, coal miner - still no proof either way whether he just got in the way of the rail car, or whether he leapt in front of it. His estranged wife had sailed to Australia in August of that year.
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A good day for marriages in my family:
1754 – 4 x g.grandparents
1767 – 5 x g.grandparents
1820 – 3 x g.grandparents
1856 – 2 x g.grandparents
and baptisms
1775 – 3 x g.grandfather
1807 – my OH’s 2 x g.g.aunt
1813 – my OH’s 2 x g.grandmother
1819 – my OH’s 2 x g.g.aunt
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This thread brings up all sorts of coincidences:
22 November 1835 my great-grandmother Margaret Jaffray born in Bannockburn
22 November 1860 her brother Robert Jaffray married Sarah Bugg in Toronto
22 November 1869 my great-great grandmother Mary Evans, born Mary Richards, died in Oxford aged 78
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Wife of my 5g Uncle, Mary Falconer nee Miller b 22/11/1793.
My 3g grandfather Robert Johnstone Borthwick b 22/11/1801 Kirkmichael, Dumfriesshire, son of William & Janet Borthwick nee Johnstone.
1st cousin 5 x removed Borthwick Haliburton m Isabella Lowe 22/11/1886....Borthwick was b in Orwell, Kinross, Scotland and died in Matamau, NZ.
'Living' Houghton 6th cousin 1 x removed b 22/11/1989, England
'Living' Hastie 1st cousin 1 x removed b 22/11/1996 Scotland
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November 22nd 1810 - Christopher Hauxwell born, Yorkshire, 1st cousin, five times removed
" " 1823 - Christian Martin born, Aberdeenshire, " "
And: November 22nd 1909, my g.great grandmother, Jane Raitt, died Skene, Aberdeenshire. She had two sons, both illegitimate, no clues as to who might have been their father(s). But she stayed with the rest of her family - brothers, father etc all of her life. No throwing out of the home, or locking away for life, for her, I'm pleased to say. :)
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And it's suddenly occurred to me why the present date has been niggling at me ...
23/11/1963 (Aust time) ... President Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated in Dealey Plaza, Dallas Texas
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And it's suddenly occurred to me why the present date has been niggling at me ...
23/11/1963 (Aust time) ... President Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated in Dealey Plaza, Dallas Texas
22nd November, UK time but most of us can remember exactly what we were doing when the news broke. I was in the Globe Theatre, Stockton-on-Tees at a concert full of 60s popstars and whose headline act was The Beatles.
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Mary Falconer,1st cousin 5 x removed m William McCraw23/11/1849 Duns Berwickshire. She was the daughter of Alexander Falconer and Mary Miller.
Margaret Downie Cowe 1st cousin 4 x removed b 23/11/1866 Langton, Berwickshire, daughter of James & Margaret Cowe nee Cassy.
James Hay 2nd cousin 4 x removed married Edith Bird 23/11/1904, York County N.B. Canada. He was the son of Aaron Hay and Annie Cowe.
'Living' Larson b 23/11/1991 b California 6th cousin 1 x removed
'Living' Larson b 23/11/1994 b California 6th cousin 1 x removed
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Katherine Stanton my 9 x g.g.aunt was born in 1606
Catherine Gilchrist my 3 x g.g.aunt died in 1895
And on this day Thomas Seckford my 12 x g.grandfather died on 23 November 1505 at Great Bealings, Suffolk aged 61. He is descended from a line of Lords of the Manor but doesn't appear to become one himself.
Sir John de Seckford (1295-1331) (my 16 x g.grandfather) became Lord of Hakeford Hall Manor in Norfolk through his wife, the eldest daughter of Sir William de Hakeford, after Sir William's other daughter and her husband had released to them all their right to it and other lands.
On his death in 1331 his eldest son also called Sir John de Seckford (my 15 x g.grandfather) succeeded him. He died in 1371 and the succession was passed to his eldest son Sir George de Seckford (my 14 x g.grandfather
Sir George de Seckford (my 14 x g.grandfather) died in 1401 and the manor was settled on his wife Alice. She remarried and the property was passed on to George Seckford Esq (my 13 x g.grandfather).
George Seckford (my 13 x g.grandfather) died in 1450 and his widow remarried a Sir Henry Winfield. She kept possession of Hakeford Hall Manor following this 2nd marriage. She died in 1476 when Hakeford Hall Manor was released to Thomas Seckford (my 12 x g.grandfather).
Thomas Seckford (my 12 x g.grandfather) married and had two children, 1 son also called Thomas and a daughter called Cecily. It is thought that either Thomas or his father George built the original Seckford Hall, Suffolk.
This is the point where the manor and lands leave my line as I am descended from the daughter. :'(
I have a booklet with a short history of Seckford Hall and the Seckford Family which states that Seckford Hall was the ancestral home of the Seckford family for 520 years and most probably built between 1541 and 1550. However, there is architectural evidence incorporated into the building which shows that the former Hall, or at least part of it was built in the late fifteenth century. The speculation is that the builder was either George Seckford my 13 x g.grandfather or his son Thomas my 12 x g.grandfather. 1489 has been given as an accurate date for the building of the old Hall. There is documentary evidence that the former hall existed in a will made by Thomas in 1503 in which he requests "a good and able priest to sing for me and my friends for ten years within the Church of Great Bealings or else at Seckford Hall". There must have been a chapel there then, but there is no chapel in the present hall, or any sign of there ever having been one. It is thought my 12 x g.grandfather's grandson, Thomas Seckford who founded the Almshouses for 13 poor men in Woodbridge built the new hall.
Seckford Hall is now a country house hotel. It looks lovely on Google!
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Oh Lizzie, what an astonishing thing to find in your tree. I am so jealous that you have managed to get so far back!
I've never managed to get further back than 9 x greats, though I have done that on several lines and on one of them, I am a gnat's whisker away from being able to claim two more generations. One day I shall do it!
And as mine were all of the labouring classes, so no books or ready written trees to work with, I think I've not done too badly! ;D
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I've got quite a few branches like that one, all eventually leading to one of my 3 x g.grandfathers who died in a workhouse. ::) So there is lots of info about them in Burkes Peerage, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and in Google books etc. as well as books written by local historians.
Of course, I've got more ag labs and poor people in my tree than rich and powerful ones and on one line I can't even find out about my g.grandfather. Such is life I suppose.
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James Haliburton 2nd cousin 4 x removed b 24/11/1857 Orwell, Kinross, died 4/8/1935
'Living' Jex b 24/11/1981 USA 6th cousin
4g grandfather William Cowe b 24/11/1799 Redheugh, Cockurnspath, Berwickshire d 10/2/1884 Ninewar Duns, Berwickshire.
4 G Uncle George Falconer m Margaret Dippie 24/11/1826, Chirnside, Berwickshire.
2nd Cousin 4 x removed William Lauder Hastie chr 24/11/1850 Duns, Berwickshire.....d 4/7/1930 at Dod-Mill aged 80
4g Aunt Margaret Cowe m George Bell 24/11/1865 Duns & Langton, Berwickshire.
2nd Cousin 'Living' Hastie b 24/11/1962 Dallas, Texas, now living in California.
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Nearly forgot today.
Births
William Benson 1847 – 1st cousin 3 times removed
John Brand 1843 - 1st cousin 3 times removed
Baptisms
James Rodgers Mumby 1815 – 2 x g.g.uncle
Elizabeth Brand 1843 and her twin brother John - 1st cousins 3 times removed.
Marriages
Samuel Binns & Ann Spraggett 1818 – OH’s 3 x g.grandparents
Isaac Holms & Bridget Smith 1739 – my 6 x g.g.aunt and uncle
Deaths
George Reuben Benson 1917. George was left an orphan at 8 and put into an orphanage when his oldest brother joined the army. He left the orphanage aged 14 and joined the regular army. He fought in World War 1 until 24 November 1917 when he was killed in France. He has no grave, but his name is carved on The Cambrai Memorial which commemorates more than 7,000 servicemen of the United Kingdom and South Africa who died in the Battle of Cambrai in November and December 1917 and whose graves are not known.
Anna Maria Rawlins 1956 – my half g.aunt. Known as Aunt Annie. I think I must have met her as I went with my parents to Hull to visit his relations when I was a child, but I don’t remember her even though I have a photograph to jog my memory!
Burial
Elsie Cockett – 1920. This is Elsie who died on 17 November. I wrote about her on that date.
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Died 25th November 1986 Montagu Vazie Simons, my 3rd cousin once removed.
He was "discovered" as a cousin by my father while leafing through a law directory. The middle name refers to my 3-greats grandmother's maiden name, and is as far as I know extinct as a surname in Britain, so the fact that there was a relationship was immediately obvious.
Monty had in his possession a copy of a family tree which we believe was drawn up around 1860, and which matched the one my father had inherited.
It's this sort of chance discovery that has moved my research forward more than once.
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My gt. aunt Louisa Barham born 1872, daughter of George and Elizabeth Barham, in White Lion Yard, Holborn.
Sadly she died there in July 1873.
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Today in 1641, my nine times great grandparents - Thomas Littlefare and Dorathie Sigsworth were married in Gateshead.
Littlefare has a wonderful array of spelling variations including Littelforth, Littlefair etc. I have opeted to stick with the above spelling for ease of filing! This marriage record is according to someone else's research but I am fairly confident that it is accurate.
In 1769, my four times ggps, Joseph Cunion and Margaret Jones were married in Spennithorne.
1873 - my great-great uncle, James Raitt was born in Old Machar, Aberdeen. Second illegitimate son of Jane Raitt, he became a golf club steward in Scoonie, Fife and my nan remembered visiting him as a child but he died relatively young from, we think, alcohol related disease.
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Only got 4 very distant ancestors today.
My 6 x g.g.aunt and uncle married in 1739 (that's 2 ancestors!)
My half 2 x g.g.aunt was baptised in 1819
My 3 x g.g.aunt was buried in 1767
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I am finding this to be a very useful exercise because it's making me check and double check lots of my information. I've found some serious errors in what I have entered on my various trees - I have FTM 2010 but also have online trees with A******y and GR. I think I must have had slight blips in concentration at times because what I have entered on one doesn't match up with the others. ::)
Please note - we have been moved from TOT to Lighter Side, so that this calendar of BMDs doesn't suffer the fate of Off Topic threads and disappear into the ether after a month or so. But make sure we keep the posts genealogy based, or Bob will move us back again! ;)
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6g Aunt chr 25/11/1764 Edrom Berwickshire daughter of John Sharp and Alison Bowmaker.
4g Uncle James Burn, Blacksmith at Bowden, Roxburghshire m Janet Telfer 25/11/1835 he also died 25/11/1905. Son of James Burn, Blacksmith Lillisleaf Roxburghshire and Jessie Burn nee Davidson.
2nd Cousin 4 x removed John Nelson Hastie b 25/11/1862 at Cockburnspath, Berwickshire. Son of John Hastie and Isabella Nelson
2nd Cousin 3 x removed Margaret Roberts Haliburton b 25/11/1893
2nd Cousin 4 x removed Isabelle M Hastie, daughter of Thomas Hastie & Georgina Henderson Hastie nee Cowe m William Parker White 25/11/1901, Warren County Iowa.
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7g Grandparents James Falconer m Marion Cockburn 26/11/1704, Yester East Lothian.
5g Uncle Alexander Cowe b 26/11/1808 Ayton, Berwickshire, son of Richard and Jean Cowe nee Polwarth.
1st Cousin 5 x removed Robert Brydon b 26/11/1810, Innerleithen, Peeblesshire. Son of Adam & Isabell Brydon nee Hastie.
4g Grandparents John Gilchrist & Elizabeth Brunton m 26/11/1816, St Cuthberts, Edinburgh. Son of Peter & Agnes Gilchrist nee Denholm and daughter of James & Janet Brunton nee Wilson.
1st Cousin 5 x removed John Hastie m Isabella Nelson 26/11/1861 Foulden, Berwicksire. Son of Thomas & Esther Hastie nee Hoy & daughter of John & Margaret Nelson nee Patterson.
2nd Cousin 4 x removed Philip Hastie Bell m Agnes Chirnside 26/11/1878 Brockholes, Coldingham, Berwickshire. Son of James & Christian Bell nee Hastie.
3rd Cousin 3 x removed Gladys G Runciman m Walter Duff 26/11/1913 Des Moines, Iowa. Son of John W & Elizabeth Runciman nee Morgan.
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Henry Page, born 1826, in Greenwich; son of Edward and Catherine. He was a baker and my 1st cousin 4 times removed.
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Henry Page, born 1826, in Greenwich; son of Edward and Catherine. He was a baker and my 1st cousin 4 times removed.
Ermmmm.....I think perhaps he shares his birthday with someone else, doesn't he? ;)
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My 11 x g.grandparents, William Chamberlaine & Ellin Southwell married in Edenham, Lincolnshire in 1561. Edenham is a village in Lincolnshire, situated about 3 miles north-west of Bourne on the A151. I visited Bourne when I was following in my ancestors footsteps a couple or so years ago. Unfortunately, at the time I hadn't researched as far back as William and Ellin, so didn't go to Edenham. Another time maybe.
On this day 4 ancesters were baptised
In 1753 Samuel Collett my 3 x g.g.uncle
In 1693 Elizabeth Beldon my 5 x g.g.aunt
In 1746 Elizabeth Hobson my 4 x g.g.aunt
In 1703 John Hawkins my 5 x g.g.uncle
On this day
In 1791 Sarah Batty my 4 x g.grandmother died.
As did
Anne Dyke in 1907 she was OH’s 2 x g.grandmother. She died from a fractured skull after accidentally falling down stairs. Her husband’s death 25 years earlier was caused by strangulation by hanging, due to being suicidal and with temporary insanity induced by excessive alcohol – according to the coroner.
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Henry Middleton 1809 my 3 x g.g.uncle. He was nearly 3 when he died. His 5 year old sister died on 1st December 1809. I don’t know the cause of death, but I suppose it’s possible that they must both have had the same infectious disease. They and other members of their family are all buried in the same grave in Millom Churchyard.
Most importantly, our daughter is celebrating her 50th birthday.
Today the weather is fairly warm, dry at last, but in 1962, it had started freezing. The frost on the trees was so thick it looked like snow. I remember my mum coming to visit me in the maternity home (in those days you stayed in for 10 days even with normal deliveries which I had had). She told me I was better inside the maternity home, which had CH, than at home which didn't. Nevertheless after 10 days I went home to a stone terraced house in Derbyshire. That winter was so cold that the olive oil we had (we had to buy it from the chemist then) froze in the bottle. Fortunately, we and our baby daughter survived. The only warm room in the house was the living room, sandwiched between other houses, we got the warmth from our fire and from the fire of the house next to us, but only during the day. Open fires weren't left burning overnight.
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26/11/1821, Phoebe Tatham born, elder daughter of my gt gt gt grandfather Christopher Tatham (surgeon) and his first wife Justina Dunbar
26/11/1945, Marion Llewellyn Sing Hee (sister of my gt grandfather), nee Powell, died in Sydney.
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Henry Page, born 1826, in Greenwich; son of Edward and Catherine. He was a baker and my 1st cousin 4 times removed.
Ermmmm.....I think perhaps he shares his birthday with someone else, doesn't he? ;)
Yes...... :-[ ...................... me. ;)
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Happy Birthday Nanny Jan. Hope it's a good one.
Lizzie
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I am finding this to be a very useful exercise because it's making me check and double check lots of my information.
I agree, it's also reminded me that some information that wasn't available before (parish records of West Yorkshire) are now available on Ancestry, so I can check out more ancestors.
Also I quite often add people to Legacy that aren't in my tree when I'm sorting out things for other people. I've found some that I forgot to delete - they weren't related to anyone only their spouse and children. ::)
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Belated birthday wishes Nanny Jan, hope you had a lovely day :)
I'm also finding this useful, just yesterday it prompted me to go looking again and I found two deaths for an elusive branch and confirmed my notes on who the parents were.
1st Cousin 5 x removed John Falconer b 27/11/1826 Eccles, Berwickshire, son of Alexander & Mary Falconer nee Miller. Also his wife Elizabeth Blackwell b 27/11/1833.
3g Aunt Margaret Cochrane b 27/11/1861 Manor, Peeblesshire. Daughter of George & Margaret Cochrane nee Turnbull.
2nd Cousin 3 x removed Agnes Haliburton b 27/11/1876 Mayo, Ireland. Daughter of James & Agnes Haliburton nee Haining.
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Ralph Stanton my 9 x g.grandfather was born in 1601 in Morton by Bourne. It was his wife’s grandparents who married on 26 November 1561 in a village close to Bourne.
Violet Florence Purchon my 2nd cousin once removed was born in 1895.
William Benson my 2 x g.g.uncle was baptised on this day in 1825. On the same day in 1852 he and Agnes Nicholson married. William started his working life as a labourer/brick maker, but within 20 years he was a farmer with 55 acres and a servant. It’s possible that he inherited the farm from his parents, but as they had both died at least 15 years before he became a farmer, it’s more likely that he either bought or rented a different farm in the same area.
Mary North my 5 x g.grandmother died in Almondbury, Yorkshire in 1790. She was nearly 81 when she died.
Elizabeth Barrand my 3 x g.grandmother died in New Sleaford, Lincolnshire in 1842 from Acute Pericarditis. She was only 55 at the time of her death.
Walter Renicar OH’s g.uncle was buried in 1943
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Today in 1861, my 4 x great grandfather, Samuel Howe died in Tollesbury, Essex, aged seventy-one.
This line seems to have been almost entirely made up of coastal fisherman and merchant sailors. One was described on the 1841 census as an Oyster Catcher which, as a bird-watcher, has always entertained me, especially as that rather striking wader was my father's favourite. I wonder, did he feel some sort of affinity with it? ;D
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3g Aunt Katherine Fairbairn chr 28/11/1810 Cramond, Edinburgh. Daughter of Andrew & Mary Fairbairn nee Watson.
1st Cousin 5 x removed Thomas Falconer m Catalyna Crooks 28/11/1845.
3rd Cousin 3 x removed Gladys G Runciman b 28/11/1892, Des Moines, Iowa.
4th Cousin 2 x removed Living? Buckland m Living? Cull 28/11/1929 California.
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On this day in 1914 my late, beloved father was born!
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Twenty years ago to the day, my uncle Jack died. He received his call up papers to fight in WW2 on his 21st birthday. He was a soft, gentle man, totally unsuited to barrack life and the rigours of war, but despite bullying and the things he had to train to do, he survived, with the help of Toc H at Talbot House, Poperinge, Belgium. He remained a supporter of Toc H all his life, for it had saved his sanity, as it did so many other soldiers.
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1st Cousin 5 x removed Helen Spark chr 29/11/1830 Coldingham, Berwickshire, daughter of Alexander & Helen Spark nee Falconer.
4g Aunt Alison Cochrane m Alexander Wright 29/11/1847 Biggar Lanarkshire daughter of David & Christina Cochrane nee Bookless (or Bouglas)
2nd Cousin 4 x removed Philip Hastie Bell b29/11/1851 Horsley Coldingham, Berwickshire, son of James & Christian Bell nee Hastie.
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Today I have:
1674, Robart Jackson, my 8 x times great uncle was baptised in the parish of Brough under Stainmore, Westmorland. ( He is listed as both Robart and Robert in various places but his baptism has him as the former so that's the way he stays in my mind)
1808, Jane Hauxwell, is cousin, five times removed, was baptised in Spennithorne, North Riding of Yorkshire.
1886 Hector Barr, secon cousin twice removed, was born in Wivenhoe, Essex
1904. My 2 x great grandfather, James Bland, died in Bedale Union Workhouse. I felt so sorry for him when I found this because I knew that he still had living relatives so thought perhaps he needn't have been in the workhouse. Then, approximately thirty-five years later, his daughter ( my great grandmother) met the same fate in Darlington. I felt it was justice! But who am I to judge what happened over a hundred years ago? Who knows what their circumstances might have been or, indeed, what sort of man he was. I really must stop using today's standards when I consider my ancestors.
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The Times of 1st December 1847: On Monday last, 29th ult, at Kennington Church by the Rev George Greig MA, Charles Andrews of Daywell in the County of Salop, and of Upper Bedford Place, Russell-square, London, youngest and only surviving son of the late Thomas Robert Andrews, Esq, to Phoebe second daughter of the late William Vazie Simons Esq., and sister to William Simons of Green-hall, Carmarthenshire, Esq and grand-daughter of the late Joseph Simons of Chester le Street, Durham.
Phoebe was my great-great aunt. Her niece, also Phoebe, wrote of the family:
Phoebe married Charles Andrews , a Freeman of the City of London and a member of a big Scot family. They were spendthrifts of the first order, and he liquidated the casket of the Freedom but kept the parchment, and they got through three fortunes. He became insane, and Phoebe refused to put him in an asylum unless they’d take her too to look after him. She used to shave him every day, with a maid standing by holding the key in the lock of a drawer. Andrews would grab at the razor, Phoebe threw it in the drawer, maid locked it and ran away.
The marriage was childless; Charles died in 1875 and Phoebe in 1882.
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Phoebe married Charles Andrews , a Freeman of the City of London and a member of a big Scot family. They were spendthrifts of the first order, and he liquidated the casket of the Freedom but kept the parchment, and they got through three fortunes. He became insane, and Phoebe refused to put him in an asylum unless they’d take her too to look after him. She used to shave him every day, with a maid standing by holding the key in the lock of a drawer. Andrews would grab at the razor, Phoebe threw it in the drawer, maid locked it and ran away.
The marriage was childless; Charles died in 1875 and Phoebe in 1882.
I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry at this story but it is one of those which really makes researching family history worthwhile. :)
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I forgot to post yesterday, so I'll do 28 & 29 November now.
28 November
William Bagshaw my 6 x g.g.uncle was baptised in 1672 in Bradfield, Yorkshire and Benjamin Bagshaw my 6 x g.grandfather was baptised 1678 in Bradfield, Yorkshire. William and Benjamin were brothers. William was the eldest of 9 children, 7 of whom were boys. It was not until they got to children numbers 8 and 9 that the parents produced girls.
Charles Collett my 3 x g.g uncle was baptised in 1760 in Stradbroke, Suffolk
William Dyke my OH’s 4 x g.great uncle was baptised 1762 in Hatton, Warwickshire.
Sarah Woodward my 3 x g.g.aunt was baptised in Frodsham, Cheshire in 1769
John Chorley & Dorothy Gardner my 4 x g.grandparents married in 1805. He was 60 when he married and probably a widower with adult children, she was a spinster aged 35. He died 11 years later.
Herbert Bailey & Edith Alden married in 1915. Edith who was my half 1st cousin once removed, was the illegitimate daughter of my g.gran’s eldest daughter from her first marriage. She was born a year after my gran and lived with my gran, her parents and siblings more like a sister than my gran’s half niece. Her husband died on 10 November 1918 from a gunshot wound to the head, which is very sad so near to the end of WWI. Edith never married again and lived with her widowed mother, whose husband had committed suicide by hanging in 1910. Her mother died in 1954 when Edith (known as Aunt Edie) was 69 and then, as far as I know, she lived alone until she died in 1970 aged 85. This is another relationship that seems a bit distant, but I did meet Aunt Edie and her mother Aunt Vinnie (as we knew them) on a couple of occasions.
Richard Taylor & Hannah Pemberton married in 1818. Hannah was my 1st cousin 4 times removed.
Agnes Postlethwaite my 5 x g.g.aunt died in 1726. She was only 7 months old
Lizzie
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29 November
Thomas Hobson my 2 x g.g.uncle was born in Denby, Yorkshire 1815
Elizabeth Martha Brand my g.g.aunt was born in Christchurch, Southwark, Surrey in 1850 and died aged 18 months from Pneumonia and Diarrhoea.
Walter Benson my grandfather was born in Hull in 1885. Some Rootschatters may remember he was the person who was an oboe player and musical director for the BBC in Aberdeen and was killed in a motorcycle accident in 1926 aged 41, leaving a wife and 6 children.
Harold Catlow my OH’s first cousin once removed was born in 1911
George Dyke my OH’s 4 x g.g.uncle was born in 1779
Francis Chapman Cawthorn my 3 x g.grandmother died in Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire in 1890
Oops missed a couple.
Harriet Hobson my first cousin twice removed died 1949. It seems a distant relationship when it’s just written down, but she was my maternal gran’s cousin and even though I don’t remember whether I met her or not, my mother often talked about her.
Elizabeth Barrand this is my 3 x g.grandmother who died 2 days earlier in New Sleaford. She was buried in 1842 in St Denys Parish Church, Sleaford.
A side benefit of doing this exercise is that where possible, I am writing potted histories of my ancestors to add to their record on my tree, rather than just having the bare facts.
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4g Uncle John Watson b 30/11/1792 at Melrose, Roxburghshire, son of John Watson & Katherine Lees.
1st Cousin 1 x removed 'Living' Hastie b 30/11/1946 at Kelso, Roxburghshire.
Samuel & Janet Virtue nee Wilson m 30/11/1821 at Edrom Berwickshire, parents in law of my 1st cousin 5 x removed Alexander Bell Hastie who married Georgina Virtue their daughter.
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Virtue - now there's a name to live up to! :D
Today in 1833, William Raitt was born in Old Machar, Aberdeenshire. He was my 3 x great uncle.
In 1909, Henry Bushby died in Raby, Co. Durham. Another 3 x great uncle. (Reminder to self - Next time I am driving past Raby, I must go and check out the graveyard. )
And on this day in 2007, my first great-niece was born. I am sending her lots of love and birthday wishes. She is having a Hogwart's feast instead of a party and the cake her mummy has made is beyond belief! Sadly, I shan't get to sample it. :(
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Son #2 made a slightly ahead of schedule arrival today in 1971........just in time for a late lunch! He's celebrating with a trip to the Good Food Show. ;D
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I'm only a day late...
29th November 1916, my Mum, Edith May ENNIS was born in Balmain, New South Wales. She was the third daughter of Leonard ENNIS & May YEATMAN.
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1874 - Winston Spencer Churchill was born
1941 - My father was shot down after a bombing raid on Hamburg. He was taken prisoner of war. He survived - otherwise I would not be here to tell the tale ;D
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Continued here:
On This Day in ..... DECEMBER
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,627225.60.html
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The saga continues .....
This topic was started on 5th / 8th November 2012, so we have a few "empty" days still.
And if if others want to join in, or you've missed some the first time round, just add them here :)
Tip for searching the whole topic, to see if you have already entered a name ..
Click on "Print" - it won't print directly but will show the whole topic in one page, in a printable format, and you can search it with Ctrl-F.
You can find a complete list of the "monthly" topics here,
http://surname.rootschat.com/lexicon/otday/index.php
and you can also add your anniverseries to the database
Alread entered for 1st Nov .....
http://surname.rootschat.com/lexicon/otday/otd-quick-search.php?month=11
Bob
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Born today in Shoreditch in 1879 a 1st cousin 2R, Susan Maria Read; daughter of James and Rachel Maria (nee Barham). Susan was baptised in 1881 at Christchurch, Hoxton. She married Thomas Garrett at St.Philip the Evangelist, Islington in May 1899. So far I've found 3 children born to the couple. Susan died in 1958 in Leytonstone.
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Yes, I only joined in April and would like to add the ones I missed, so reviving each month's thread sounds good to me!
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Congratulations genjen for originating a year of interesting tales and prompting a new research database. I’ll not be copying any more dates/events from these threads to Ancestral Anniversaries – those from last November are already there, so you can readily see what has already been posted. And as well congrats on the new descendent.
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Thanks Bob. :D
And thanks for your comments Pejic.
I have few from early November which I didn't post last year.
Baptised 1st November 1829, Hannah Bushby, in Spennithorne, North Riding. A 1st cousin x 5
And 2nd November, because I won't be here tomorrow,
1912, my uncle by marriage, Wilfred Mayes Robson, was born in Middlesbrough. He married my mum's half sister, Alice Frost and they had three sons. Wilf died in 1982, just a few weeks before my own father.
And in 1946, my parents, John Shaw Howe and Alma Smith were married in Middlesbrough. They had thirty-six years of marriage, three daughters and four grandchildren before my dad died in July 1982 - two more grandchildren were born after this. If they were still alive they would be so thrilled to know that there are six great-grandchildren so far! Mum met the first of the great granddaughters just before she died in 2008 but knowing her, the greatest pleasure would have been in having two great-grandsons - she was disappointed with the arrival of each of her three daughters - always wanted a boy! We all knew that we were intended to be called Stuart Andrew. ::) ::)
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On 1st November 1783 my 4xG grandmother Rachel Wood was born in Ceres in the Kingdom of Fife. Finding Rachel was all due to a mistake on my 2xG grandmother's (also Rachel) death certificate where she was entered as her mother, when in fact she was her grandmother. The name Rachel has stayed within my family and so far I have traced it back a further two generations to Rachel's grandmother, my 6xG grandmother.
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On 1 November
Arthur Whittaker my father in law married Ethel Wright his first wife at Wilton Street Chapel, Denton, Lancashire in 1930. They had 3 children one in 1931, the 2nd in 1932 and a 3rd in 1933. The 3rd was a little girl called Olwen who was born on 17 September 1933 and died on 1 November 1933 on her parents wedding anniversary. The cause of her death was asphyxia in a convulsion due to gastric disturbance. Ethel, her mother, died 2 years later of cardiac failure, pneumonia and influenza. My husband (his father re-married a few years later) and his brother and stepbrothers were always told that the baby had died soon after birth and that their mother had died soon afterwards of a broken heart. I suppose there was a little truth in this story, the baby did die only 6 weeks after birth and her mother died of cardiac failure 2 years later, aged 29.
Clement Tubbs and Abigail Adams my 6 x g.grandparents married in Sutton, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire in 1722.
Elizabeth Bayldon (nee Milnes ) my 8 x g.grandmother was buried at All Saints Church, Dewsbury, Yorkshire in 1685. She was aged 84 and had been a widow for 47 years.
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I checked what I (and quite a few others) did at the start of the thread and it seems we didn't quote names, just relationships, so I think there'll be quite a few to add after all.
Lizzie
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1 Nov 1894 ... my grandmother Amelia Beatrice Mahoney, born at 17 Preston St, Bethnal Green.
In 1914, she married Henry William Almeroth, the gt gt grandson of Herman ALMEROTH the sugarbaker who "began" the Sugar Refiners & Sugarbakers website.
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On 1 November 1840 my great grandfather, Frederic Sewell Wilson was baptised at St George in the East, London. He was the son of Robert Wilson and Harriet Sewell, and later married Clara Rosina Giovannelli, thus providing me with an interesting name to research!
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Born today in Warehorne, Kent in 1858 my 2xgt.aunt, Elizabeth Ann Rainer; daughter of Edward and Charlotte (nee Henman). Elizabeth was baptised in January 1859 in Warehorne.On 1881 census Elizabeth is shown working as a domestic servant. She married William Chamberlain in Bexley Heath in 1884; there were no children and Elizabeth died in 1919.
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On 2nd November 1794 Richardson Downs was christened in Bo'ness. The son of my 4xG grandparents Henry Downs and Janet Richardson, he was born on October 10th and was my 3xG grandmother Jane's elder brother.
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On 2 Nov
Jonathan Middleton and Dorothy Chorley my 3 x g.grandparents married at The Chapel, Broughton in Furness, Lancashire in 1834. Dorothy had already had 3 illegitimate children with 3 different fathers ::) the first two both girls had died aged 1 and 5, but the son lived with his mother and stepfather. He must have got on well with his stepfather, as although he kept his own surname, he gave 2 of his children the middle name Middleton.
George Mumby and Sarah Sibbert my 4 x g.grandparents married in the parish church of Ulceby cum Fordington, Lincolnshire in 1776
Margaret Postlethwaite (nee Smith) my 6 x g.grandmother was baptised at St Mary’s Parish Church, Dalton in Furness, Lancashire in 1701.
Elisabeth Middleton (nee Benson) my 4 x g.grandmother was baptised in Wigton, Cumberland in 1781
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On 2 November 1607 my 8 x great grandfather William Ashwell was baptised at Langford, Bedfordshire. He was the son of William and Susannah.
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On 3rd November 1852, William Brown married Helen Sunter in Kilconquhar parish in Fife. Willam was the eldest son of William Brown and Elisabeth Scott, my 3xG grandparents and the brother of my great great grandmother Rachel. William and Helen's births are registered just a few lines apart in 1829 and lived on the same street in the tiny coastal village of Earlsferry and so, I think, would have known each other their whole lives. William, like his father and grandfather before him (both William Browns) was a mariner.
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3 Nov
Ethelinda Cockett (nee Wheeldon) my aunt, known as Aunty Linda, died in Blackpool on 3 November 1993. In 1960, I went to Blackpool with my boyfriend (now husband) and his parents for Christmas. Whilst there I went to visit my aunt, uncle and cousins and my aunt decided I looked a bit ‘peaky’ so she gave me Sanatogen Tonic Wine. I had no idea it was actually an alcoholic drink (we were quite innocent in those days) so quite happily drank about half a tumbler full. I found out later it is about 15% proof, no wonder I felt a bit squiffy afterwards. ::)
Elizabeth Gilchrist my 3 x g.g.aunt was buried at St Botolph’s Church, Boston in 1818. She was just turned 2 years old.
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4 Nov 1894 ... my grandfather Henry William Almeroth was born at 46a Swaton Road, Bromley ... just 3 days after his future wife (#148).
Second child of Cornelius James Almeroth & Frances Maria Armitage, he became merchant's clerk to Mr Reichardt of J L Lyon, Crutched Friars, London, after serving in Salonika in WW1. He died 1964 at Sheringham, Norfolk.
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Born today in London in 1814, my 3xgt.aunt Eliza Bailey; daughter of James and Hamutal (nee Page). Eliza was baptised the following month at St. Luke, Old Street. I can find her living with her family on a few census records and then.......too many Eliza Baileys to be certain.
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On 4 November 1770 my 4 x great grandparents Esther Jackson and Joseph Sewell were married at Brough under Stainmore, Westmorland.
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John Francke my 9 x g.g.uncle was baptised at St John the Baptist Church, Morton by Bourne, Lincolnshire in 1593. The child born before him in 1590 was also baptised as John, so I assume he probably died, although I haven’t searched for a burial. The family had 12 children, including twin girls who died aged 5 and 6 days old respectively, 3 girls called Elizabeth including one of the twins, the second Elizabeth also must have died.
John Pemberton my g.uncle who died on 1 November at Queens Road, Manchester was buried at Kingsley Parish Church, Kingsley, Cheshire in 1868. He was 23 and the cause of his death was Rheumatic Fever and Inflammation of Kidneys 2 days. I can’t help but think it might have been healthier for him to stay in Cheshire where he was born.
Matthew Heaton my husband’s 2 x g.grandfather was buried in Philips Park Cemetery, Manchester in 1880. I found his burial when searching for someone else but haven’t bought his death certificate yet to find out the cause of his death.
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One from yesterday -
3rd November 1959, my great grandfather, Peter Grant Raitt, died in Stonehaven. I vaguely remember this happening. Having never met him, his death didn't affect the child version of me very much. But I always wished that I had known him - there was something about his name which appealed to me! ::)
4th November 1681, Edmund Lonsdale married Margaret Robinson in Grinton. My 8 x great grandparents.
1932 - another great grandfather, Clarence Samuel Howe, died in Aberdeen.
1979 - Albert Lynn died in Ontario - a 2nd cousin x1
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On Monday November 4th 1957 my mother went into hospital following a heart attack at home a week before. She had been in bed a week nursed by me but I knew she needed more than I could do as I had a new baby and was tied as I fed him myself.
The following night was bonfire night and I decided I`d better stay at home in case the baby was upset by all the bangs etc. at next door`s bonfire. My O.H. had a meeting he needed to attend so I stayed at home .
I did not therfore see mum in hospital as babies were not allowed in.( I was going on Nov 6th when my O.H was able to stay with our baby.)
However the next morning a telegram came to say she had died.
She was only 61 and when I think of the wonderful care I had even with a late diagnosed heart attack( 4 days after the event!) I boil remembering the neglect. No oxygen, no blood thinning tablets , no Beta blockers or whatever else she could have today and possibly even then.
I think what if I had done more but other than that she needed complete bed rest the G.P. gave no specific instructions. She got pneumonia and I insisted she be admitted. It was difficult to get a hospital bed in those days but she ought really to have been admitted the day she was first ill.
The funeral was Nov 11th so that day is doubly sad for me. The baby is now 56 and how proud she would have been of him , and his brother and sister both of course she never knew.
She`d have been amazed that after 57 years I`m still marrried because she thought I was far too young even though she liked my fiancee very much. ( She was 38 when she married) It was his mother who persuaded her we`d be O.K. She was born over 117 years ago. What tales she told me of those days so long ago. I wish she had known my children.
I`ve got flowers in for her, ashes scattered so no grave. I`ll go and have a quick sniff of her perfume bottle which still has a faint lingering perfume which is "her" -Oppoponax --on Wednesday.
Viktoria.
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2 birthdays today:
My 2xgt. aunt Rebecca Burgess born in 1864 in London; daughter of Robert Richard and Elizabeth (nee Gandy). I can trace Rebecca up to 1881 census where she is living with her widowed mother and siblings. There's a possible marriage for her the following year and a death in 1904 but I've not confirmed it with certs.
A 2xgt.aunt, Isabella Barham, born in 1836 in London; daughter of Francis and Isabella (nee Bailey). Isabella was baptised in January 1837 at St. Giles, Cripplegate. She married Samuel Read in 1861 at St James, Shoreditch and I've found 5 children for them. I think Isabella died in 1887 but haven't got the cert to confirm.
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Viktoria - what a sad story from you about your mother. Medical care was so different then wasn't it?
5th November 1881, my 3 x great-grandmother, Margaret Shaw ( nee Forsyth), died in Nairn.
5th November 1886, my great-uncle, Ernest Cooper Smith, was born in Middlesbrough. The son of John Smith and Harriet Knight. His mother died when he was still very young and by the 1901 census he was in the Industrial School in Middlesbrough. A musician and a career soldier, he married a young woman from Sheffield and had a daughter, born in 1914. Having completed his term of service, he was in the process of leaving the army when war was declared. He re-joined and his story is completed in a few days time........
Through the powers of Rootschat, his grand-daughter and I have now made contact and met a couple of times, which is an absolute joy. Thanks RC! :D
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On this day November 5th Margaret Lyall was born in 1886 Illinois
Daughter to James and Jane Lyall who had emigrated to America from Edzill Angus Scotland
others in the family were James born in Edzill1884 ,..... John and Jenny or (Fanny)born Illinois
Margaret married Charles Karleskind ,I have not searched the rest of the family
I did a search for Margaret some years ago here on Rootschat but got no further with this family
although I was given an address and wrote to it I got no reply ,not even my letter was re-posted back to me
Elizabeth
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My lovely grandfather Fredrick Farr was born in Luton 5th Nov 1894. He lived nearly all of his life within half mile of where he was born, served in the army in WW1 Ypres area where he was severely wounded in the right arm and died age 91 in Luton February 1986. His elder sister Violet May was also born on 5th Nov in 1890 and his great grandfather John Farr was buried in Luton 5th Nov 1848 aged 58.
Jan ;)
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I am finding most of my anniversaries in November are deaths. Two more today.
On 5 November
In 1702 my 8 x great grandfather Joseph Bletsoe died in Ravensden, Bedfordshire, aged 55. He is a recent discovery of mine, thanks to another researcher.
In 1927 my great grandmother Louisa Conquest, nee Crowsley, died in Montreal, Canada, aged 85. Because I wasn't sure whether she had died in Canada or had returned to the UK, I had given up hope of finding her death, but then the Drouin records became available on Ancestry a couple of years ago, and lo and behold a new search came up trumps! That certainly made my day!
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5 Nov 1926 ... my grandmother Martha Ann Mawer (née Softley) died aged 49 at 10 Sidmouth St, Hull.
She had been born in Hull, the daughter of Norfolk folk John & Rebecca Softley.
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Viktoria - I really felt for you when I read the story about your mother, especially when you think of the treatments available nowadays.
Lizzie
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I had so many for 5 November that I'm only showing my direct ancestors (and one descendant!)
My youngest son and his wife celebrate their 8th wedding anniversary today.
Benjamin Bagshaw and Sara Lindley my 6 x g.grandparents married at St John the Baptist Church, Penistone, Yorkshire in 1705
Samuel Pemberton my 3 x g.grandfather was baptised at St Oswald’s Church, Lower Peover, Cheshire in 1786
Thomas Tubbs and Ann Wyles my 5 x g.grandparents married in Sutton, Isle of Ely, Cambridgshire in 1753
Clement Tubbs my 4 x g.grandfather and son of Thomas Tubbs and Ann Wyles above was baptised at Holy Trinity Church, Haddenham, Cambridgeshire in 1762
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How lovely it is that you are all remembering ,we family history researchers do keep the memories of people ,even from very far back alive, if only for a few moments.
Others do too of course.
Let`s think of EVERYONE who has gone, whenever it was, whether we knew them or not .
At one time or another most of them would have been loved and mourned .Then we have to remember the unloved-or perhaps loved- but desperation made someone abandon them. Poor souls.
I wonder if my lot will remember me? Viktoria.
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William Woodward my 3 x g.g.uncle married Sarah Spruce on 6 November 1810 at St Laurence Church, Frodsham, Cheshire.
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On 6 November
In 1678 my 10 x great grandfather Thomas Bletsoe died in Little Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire, aged 76.
In 1780 my 5 x great grandfather Cross Ashwell died in Cardington, Bedfordshire.
In 1807 my great great aunt Martha Brampton was born in Cople, Bedfordshire.
In 1842 my great grandmother Louisa Crowsley was baptised at Elstow, Bedfordshire, the daughter of William Crowsley and Catherine Ashwell.
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On 7 November
John Harper Howard and Sarah Howard my husband’s 2 x g.g.uncle and 2 x g.g.aunt (twins) were baptised at St Nicholas Church, Liverpool in 1819
Anne Mutton my 4 x g.g.aunt was baptised at the Abbey Church of St. Mary the Virgin and St. Botolph, Thorney, Cambridgeshire in 1738
Alice Catherine Cockett (nee Brand) my g.grandmother died at 13 Bednal Street, Manchester in 1900. She was 53 and the cause of her death was 1. Intercranial haemorrhage, 2. Paralysis. In other words she had a fatal stroke.
James Cawthorn my 3 x g.g.uncle died in Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire 1801. He was nearly 3 years old
Elisabeth Uffindel (nee Plane) my 6 x g.grandmother was buried at St Mary the Virgin Church, Doddington, Cambridgeshire in 1757. I haven’t got her date of birth, but her husband was 53 in 1757, so I guess Elisabeth would have been a similar age.
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The folky in me can't resist the quotation to celebrate the fact that today we have managed a whole year's worth of family births, marriages, deaths and more.
"Ploughed, sown, reaped and mown, the year turns round again
And like Barleycorn, who rose from the grave, the New Year will rise up again."
I started the thread with the anniversary of my great-uncle, Ernest Cooper Smith's death in Ypres, on November 8th 1914. This is now ninety-nine years ago. Next year will be the start of so many sad commemorations. Ernest's's grand-daughter is visiting Ypres this weekend for the Remembrance Sunday service at the Menin Gate. I know exactly where she will be standing, right under his name, when the buglers sound the Last Post and I know that she will be most incredibly moved by the solemnity of the occasion and by the sheer number of people present. Through her, I have discovered so much about this man and his family and have begun to understand something of where my own musical inclination has its roots. When he died, his widow sent his musical instruments back to his family in Middlesbrough. When, in 1983, I started to play the concertina, mum told me that there was one on the mantelpiece in 96 Croft Street when she was a child, with another similar instrument but different shape on the other end and that they had belonged to one of her great uncles and had been through army service with him. When I met Ernest's granddaughter, it turned out that she also plays a member of the generic "squeezebox" family - similar to the concertina but a different shape. Neither of us knew about Ernest's musical history when we started to play these instruments. Call me a romantic and a fool but a bit of me feels that between us, we are keeping his memory alive almost a century after his death and that there is some relevance in the words of the song I quoted at the top of this post.
And so, forward into the next twelve months...... :)
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On 8 November
William Collett my 2 x g.grandfather married Sarah Baldry in Cookley, Suffolk in 1817. William was 24 at the time and the parish records show that he was a widow. Neither I, nor other Rootschatters, have been able to find a previous marriage for him. However, at some stage Sarah died and William married yet again in 1837 to the woman who became my 2 x g.grandmother.
Thomas Howard my husband’s 3 x g.g.uncle was baptised at St Nicholas Church, Liverpool in 1795
Elen Postlethwaite my 5 x g.g.aunt was baptised at St Mary Parish Church, Dalton in Furness, Lancashire in 1730. I assume she must have died, because in 1742 another child also named Elen was born. Unfortunately, she also died aged 2 months.
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On 8 November 1927 my great grandmother Louisa Conquest, nee Crowsley, was buried at the Anglican Grace Church, Montreal.
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9 Nov
My 5 x g.g.grandparents John Pake and Elizabeth Uffindel married in 1762 at Holy Trinity Church, Haddenham, Cambridgeshire
William Collett my 2 x g.grandfather died in 1877 at Barrack Yard, Halesworth, Suffolk. He was 81 and the cause of his death was Natural Decay.
Gladys Suley (nee Cockett) my aunt died in Urmston, Lancashire in 1986, she was 86. The cause of her death was Coronary Thrombosis, Ischaemic Heart Disease, Coronary Atheraema and Essential Hypertension. As she died in her sleep there was a PM.
Ann Gilchrist my 3 x g.g aunt was buried in 1803 at St Mark’s Church, Frampton, Lincolnshire. She was only 3½ years old.
John Heaton my husband’s g.uncle died on 4 November and was buried on 9 November in Phillips Park Cemetery, Manchester in 1896 aged 59. Strangely, his son Joseph aged 19 was also buried in the same grave on the same day. I’ve ordered their death certificates to see if there is any connection between the deaths.
And last but not least one of our grandsons is 21 today.
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Forgot to say yesterday, gengen, I enjoyed your musical story!
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Some from yesterday, there were so many I've just picked out my direct ancestors and one who only died a few years before I was born.
Fanny Frost (nee Collett) my g.g.aunt was born in Halesworth, Suffolk in 1848. My dad always said he was called after her, Francis, however, Aunt Fanny as my dad called her was baptised Fanny and not Frances, so I think that’s just another of my dad’s tall tales.
Elizabeth Baxter (nee Dalby) my 6 x g.grandmother was baptised at All Saints Church, Heapham, Lincolnshire in 1718. She married aged 25 and had 7 children.
Elizabeth Postlethwaite (nee Postlethwaite) my 4 x g.grandmother was baptised at St Cuthbert’s Church, Kirkby Ireleth, Lancashire in 1759. Although her maiden name is the same as her married name, I’ve not found a prior connection between her family and her husband’s family and as they lived more than 30 miles from each other when young, I think it’s just coincidence that they shared the same surname.
Alice Catherine Cockett (nee Brand) my g.grandmother was buried in Philips Park Cemetery, Manchester in 1900 and Enos Hobson my g.g.uncle was also buried in Philips Park Cemetery in 1887
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On 11 November
Roger Postlethwaite and Agnes Addison, m y 6 x g.granddparents were married in Kendal Parish Church, in 1716.
John Pemberton my 3 x g.g.uncle was baptised at St Oswald’s Church, Lover Peover, Cheshire in 1770
My 2 x g.g.uncle Thomas Woodward was baptised at St Laurence Church, Frodsham, Cheshire in 1821
Phillis Sayer (nee Collett) my 2 x g.g.aunt died in Stradbroke, Suffolk in 1841, aged 31. The cause of her death was consumption. Unfortunately that meant that her father, my 3 x g.grandfather, who lived with her and her family had to go into the workhouse, where he died nearly 5 years later aged 87. I’m surprised that he didn’t catch TB from his daughter.
Sarah Gilchrist (nee Manning), my 3 x g.grandmother was buried at St Botoph’s Church, Boston, Lincolnshire in 1828.
Also remembering today my g.uncle George Reuben Benson, who died on 24 November 1917 during the Battle of Cambrai, France and my other distant ancestors who also died during WWI.
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On 11 November 1911 a second cousin 2 x removed, Thomas James Conquest, died in Pontiac City, Oakland, Michigan, USA.
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On 10th November 1765 my 5xG grandparents Alexander Auld and Mary Ingles married in Linlithgow.
10th November 1864 my 4xG grandfather James Greer died in Scotland. He was the son of a farmer from Ballinderry in Ireland.
One day later, on the 11th November 1864 my great grandfather George Wardlaw was born in Armadale. He was named after his grandfather, another George Wardlaw. My grandfather was also a George and so of course am I. George died in the same village both my mother and myself were born, and in my case on the same street.
On 11th November 1765 the first children of my 5xG grandparents Alexander Auld and Mary Ingles were born in Linlithgow. They were twin girls named Jean, after her mother and Henrietta after his. Jean didn't survive though they gave a later child the same name. This pattern was repeated with my grandmother Hannah, she herself being a twin, her sister Mary Anne surviving only a few weeks.
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On 12 November
John Lockwood my 3 x g.grandfather married Elizabeth Hinchliff ( my 3 x g.grandparents oops) at St John the Baptist Church, Penistone, Yorkshire in 1810. They had one son and then she disappears, I can't find a death for her, but as far as I can tell John re-married in 1812 to another Elizabeth and had 7 more children.
Thomas Redmile and Magdalen Chickley my 6 x g.grandparents married at St John the Baptist Church, Morton by Bourne, Lincolnshire in 1721.
Charles Dawson my husband’s 2 x g.grandfather was baptised at the Parish Church, Prestwich, Lancashire in 1815.
Alice Okey my 6 x g.g.aunt was baptised at Holy Trinity Church, Haddenham, Cambridgeshire in 1693
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On 12 November
In 1826 my maternal great grandfather, Robert Marshall, was baptised at St Botolph Church, Bishopsgate, London. In the 1950s I worked very near to this church, but had no idea then that an ancestor had been baptised there!
In 1961 my paternal grandmother, Elizabeth Ann Elliott, died in Leytonstone, Essex, aged 80. I visited my grandparents regularly, but I never got close to Grandma, although the opposite was true with my much loved Grandpa.
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"But I think it is a blessing to have a good word said for anyone of that unfortunate class of men called "Princes" who, generally speaking, are but poor, contemptible, odious creatures."
Princess Charlotte, on 12th November 1815
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On the 12 November, my dear old mate 'my dad' left us. Still missing you dad with your wicked sense of humour ;). So sorry none of us were there when you were called, hope you are free of your pain and forever resting in peace.
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13 Nov
Joseph Gaunt and Hannah Scholefield my 3 x g.g.uncle and aunt were married in Darton, Barnsley, Yorkshire in 1786. They were married 53 years before Hannah died aged 81. Joseph lived another 11 years and died aged 90.
John Whittaker and Anne Arnfield my OH's 3 x g.g.uncle and aunt were married at Glossop Parish Church, Derbyshire in 1786.
Myra Betney (nee Benson) my aunt died in Manchester in 2011. She was 94 and the youngest and last surviving of my dad’s siblings.
And most importantly one of my sons was born 45 years ago today - I didn't know I was old enough to have a son that age, and he's not the eldest either. ::)
Lizzie
ps. This is a good exercise, I was checking my 7 x g.grandfather who I thought had been baptised on 13 November, but the year I'd got meant he would only have been 12 when he married. Quick check of the parish records shows I'd got the year wrong, only by 27 years. He actually married my 7 x g.grandmother when he was 39, having previously been married to someone with the same Christian name as his 2nd wife. These people are so confusing.
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"You shall have made this island, which is but as the Suburbs of the Old World, a Bridge, a Galley to the new."
Donne, from his sermon to the Virginia Settlers, 13th November 1622
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On this day 14th November 1820, was born in Hobart, Tasmania, Thomas Ransom my Gx2 grandfather who was the first person I actually researched.
He is registered at his baptism on 18th December as Thomas McNally as his mother is recorded as unmarried - but took the name Ransom for all intents and purposes.
Interestingly, in his father's will made in 1829, he is named as Thomas McNally, so one presumes there was never a legal name change.
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"Montrond told me that he knew Josephine well, and that a more common vulgar kind of person could not be found. He swears that all Englishmen down to the lowest are fifty times better behaved and more civil than the French."
Creevey, to Miss Ord 14th November 1829
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On 14th November 1791 my 3xG grandfather William Brown was born in Kilconquhar, Fife. William was a mariner in both the Royal Navy and merchant fleets. On his left forearm was a tattoo in the shape of a heart, bearing the initials of his wife and himself. His first born and only daughter Rachel was my great great grandmother. Perhaps my love of the sea comes from this branch.
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Some more info on Agnes Kate Rainer (b.1906) whose birthday it is today. She married George Hedger in 1926 in Dartford; four sons were born and George died in 1979 in Surrey. Agnes died in 2003.
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I've loads today from my ancestors and also my husband's.
My younger brother Philip (who sadly died aged 38) married Diane Borkett at The Register Office, Stroud, Gloucestershire in 1981.
Jane Middleton and William Huddleston my 2 x g.g.aunt and uncle married at the Parish Church, Ulverston, Lancashire in 1874
Jonathan Middleton my 2 x g.g.uncle (and brother of Jane Middleton above) was baptised at Holy Trinity Church, Millom, Cumberland in 1852
Samuell Baildon my 7 x g.grandfather was baptised at Kirkheaton Parish Church, Yorkshire in 1630
Ann Stanton my 7 x g.g.aunt died in Morton by Bourne, Lincolnshire in 1680. She was 18 months old.
William Collett my 2 x g.grandfather was buried at Halesworth Cemetery, Suffolk in 1877. He was 84 and the cause of his death was Natural Decay.
And my husband’s ancestors
His 2 x g.g.aunt Elizabeth Howard married William Morris at St Nicholas Church, Liverpool in 1841. He was her second husband. She married her first husband, also called William, in 1834, he died in 1839.
Sarah Howard his 2 x g.g.aunt and sister of Elizabeth, above, married William Augustus Palmer at St Nicholas Church, Liverpool in 1841. I assume Elizabeth and Sarah had a joint wedding.
Edward Dawson his g.g.uncle was born in Pilkington, Lancashire in 1842
Hugh Howard my husband’s 3 x g.grandfather (and father of Elizabeth and Sarah above) was baptised at St Nicholas Church, Liverpool, in 1790
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"And I charge you upon my blyssing that in anything towching your fader that shuld be his worchip profyte or avayle that you do your devoyr and dylygent labor to the fortherance therein."
Margaret Paston to her son John, November 15th 1463.
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15 Nov
George Woodward and Mary Bell my 4 x g.grandparents married in 1768. When my 4 x g.grandfather made his will in 1811 he described himself as a yeoman, however, in a book about the village where he lived, it states that he built the oldest inn in the village in 1777. In 1811, 7 years before his death, he passed the inn on to the second of his three sons. Perhaps that explains why in his will he said he was a yeoman. After his death his will showed his personal estate and effects didn’t amount to more than £600". (Using average earnings that would be worth £430,000 in 1818). Around 1830 the inn and the land were purchased by a large land owning family. Later on the public house became the vicarage. ::)
Simeon Mumby my 2 x g.g.uncle married Elizabeth Misdel at St Botolph’s Church, Boston, Lincolnshire in 1841
Thomas Gaunt my 4 x g.g.uncle was baptised at St John the Baptist Church, Penistone, Yorkshire in 1741
Elin Everitt my 5 x g.g.aunt was baptised at St Peter & St Paul’s Church, Osbournby, Lincolnshire in 1716
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15 November 2002 my mother lost her battle with cancer. :'(
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Nanny jan - How sad, it's such a devastating disease.
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She gave it a good run.......never was one for giving up. :D
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"No architect goes on well who has a careless employer."
Miss Arbuthnot, on the Duke of Wellington and Wyatt, 16th November 1828
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On 15th November 1890, my 4xG grandmother Hannah Bingham died at Rothsay on the Isle of Bute. The name Hannah passed down on my paternal side through my GG grandmother, my grandmother, my sister and on to one of my nieces. Hannah was born in Ireland, the daughter of a farmer, James Bingham and his wife Mary Clark. She and her first 4 siblings were all born in Ireland. Her brother John was born there in 1850 but they all appear on the 1851 Scottish census, giving me a pretty accurate date for when the family moved to Scotland. She was married to Thomas McCreary, himself a farmer's son and their first four children, Thomas, James, Margaret and Mary, were named after the four grandparents. Mary, named after her maternal grandmother,was my 3xG grandmother.
On 16th November 1827 my 3xG grandparents William Brown and Elisabeth Scott married in the parish of Kilconquhar, Fife. Their first born, Rachel, my GG grandmother, named after her maternal grandmother, and only daughter from five children was born in Earlsferry, Fife the following year.
On 16th November 1788, Thomas Downs was Christened in Bo'ness. Thomas was the son of my 4xG grandparents Henry Downs and Janet Richardson and the brother of my 3xG grandmother Jane.
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16 November
William Taylor my 2nd cousin 3 times removed married Sarah Clarke in Warrington, Lancashire in 1857
Richard Taylor father of William above and my 1st cousin 4 times removed was baptised in Middlewich, Cheshire in 1794
Elizabeth Gill (formerly Tatham, nee Pemberton) my g.g.aunt was baptised at St Laurence Church, Frodsham, Cheshire in 1834
John Hobson my 2 x g.g.uncle died in Denby Dale, Yorkshire in 1876
Elizabeth (Betty) Whittaker (nee Moors) my husband’s 2 x g.grandmother died at 10 Castle Street, Leeds, Yorkshire in 1872. As most of her family lived in Denton, Lancashire she was brought back there to be buried.
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On 16 November 1797 my 5 x great grandmother, Mary Burroway, died in Kempston, Bedfordshire, aged 54. Her husband Samuel Crowsley had died the previous year.
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On 17th November 1805, less than a month after the Battle of Trafalgar, my 3xG grandfather George Wardlaw was born in Hermiston in the parish of Currie. George was the youngest of four boys and the names of his grandfather and great grandfather had already been used. He was given the name of his great great grandfather. I wonder if his parents knew this however, I think it was perhaps more that the name was a family name. His father, grandfather and great grandfather all had brothers named George. George was the son of Peter Wardlaw and Agnes Wallace. George had a somewhat tragic life. Two of his four children died young, his only daughter while giving birth to her first child. His wife too died young and George himself ended his days in Motherwell poorhouse.
On 17th November 1942, My great grandfather, George Wardlaw died in a house a few hundred yards away from the one I would be born in. How I wish that house was still there but it is now just a bare patch of earth by the river in a small Scottish village. My grandparents married in the same building. George was the eldest son of Peter Wardlaw and Janet Brown and was born only three months after their marriage. One of his sons was a George as were two of his grandsons and so of course is one of his great grandsons, me.
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;D ;D The making of George! ;)
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I think it was inevitable Wiggy ;D. I did worry that it had a toadying up to Hanoverian connections but have traced it back to at least Stuart times, so I'm OK with it now. :)
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"I made some very doleful reflections today on the calamities of this century and find myself very much to pity of being born in such cruel and troublesome times."
Betsy Wynne (on The French Revolution) 17th November 1793
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17 November
John Bayldon my 8 x g.grandfather was baptised at Kirkburton, Huddersfield in 1588. He was 36 when he married my 8 x g.grandmother who was 23, I don’t know if he’d been married previously. They had 5 children and he died in 1638.
Elsie Cockett my mum’s eldest sister died in 1920 aged 24. The cause of her death was Tuberculosis and haemoptysis for 3 days. My mum always said that Elsie broke a blood vessel in her throat whilst coughing which caused her death. Whether this was true, or whether my mum just assume this on seeing Elsie coughing up blood I don’t know. Mum was only 9 at the time. Elsie would have been my aunt but she died before she became anyone’s aunt, my oldest cousin wasn't born until 1927.
Alice Dawson (nee Crompton) my husband’s 2 x g.grandmother died at 5 Gorton Street, Salford in 1868 aged 60. The cause of her death was paralysis 12 months, effusion on the brain 6 hours. I assume she must have had some sort of stroke originally, followed by another one causing her death.
John Hobson my 2 x g.g.uncle was buried at St John the Evangelist Church, Denby, Yorkshire in 1876. He was 78 years old.
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"I never meant the Anglo-American army to be stuck in North Africa. It is a springboard, not a sofa."
Winston Churchill, to his Chiefs of Staff, 18th November 1942.
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On 18 November
In 1750 my 6 x great grandfather, Thomas Ashwell, was buried in Cardington, Bedfordshire.
In 1883 my great aunt, Katharine Susan Conquest, was born in Camberwell, Surrey, the youngest child of William and Louisa (nee Crowsley). At some stage in the early 1900s she emigrated to Canada, but I haven't found her on passenger lists. She is on the 1911 Canada census with her mother and brother Henry.
In 1895 a first cousin 1 x removed, Maud Alice Conquest, was born in Walworth, Surrey. She was the daughter of William George and Eliza Jane (nee Stevens). I think she may have remained unmarried, as I have never found a marriage record.
In 1888 two second cousins 1x removed, Jessie Eliza Peppercorn and Alfred Frederick Rogers, married at Shoreditch St Mark, London. Alfred died in 1906 and Jessie married again in 1910 to William Waples.
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On 18 November
John Hobson and Elizabeth Singleton my 6 x g.grandparents married at St Peter’s Church, Huddersfield, Yorkshire in 1697. John was 24 and Elizabeth 27.
William Spraggett Clarke my husband’s 2 x g.grandfather was baptised at Wellesbourne, Warwick in 1829. He and his wife married aged 21 and both died tragically. He hung himself aged 53 and she fell downstairs and fractured her skull aged 78.
Elias Dyke my husband’s 3 x g.grandfather (and father in law of William Spraggett Clark above) was baptised at Budbrooke, Warwick in 1795. He and his wife were 28 and 27 respectively when they married. Elias was a wheelwright but their children became hatters or silk finishers in the hat trade.
Mary Randal my 5 x g.g.aunt was baptised at Sutton, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire in 1698
William Uffindel my 6 x g.g.uncle was baptised at Holy Trinity Church, Haddenam, Cambridgeshire in 1703
Phillis Sayer (nee Collett) my 2 x g.g.aunt was buried at Stradbroke, Suffolk in 1841. The cause of her death was consumption. She was 31 years old. Unfortunately, due to her untimely death, her father, my 3 x g.grandfather had to go into the workhouse where he lived until his death 5 years later aged 87. He must have been a touch old fellow not to catch the TB from his daughter.
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18th November is the birthday of my maternal grandfather, James and he is a major stumbling block in ny research. His mother Elizabeth, my great grandmother was a widow with 4 children by the age of 24. Now I know all about their father thanks to my 2nd cousin, the grandson of one of these children away in South Australia. A few years after losing her first husband, Elizabeth remarried. There was one child, a daughter from this marriage and I know all about her father and with help from RC have traced his family in places as far apart as Ireland, Scotland, Australia and the USA. However, in between the death of her first husband and her second marriage, Elizabeth produced my grandfather. On his birth certificate, there is no father mentioned and he is described as illigitimate. All his life he kept his mother's maiden name as a surname. James died before I was born but I am told by someone who knew him that he was a man with a big heart and respected by all in the village. Even my own mother had no idea that he was illigitimate until I told her. I wonder if he knew, surely he must have asked who his father was. Alas if he did, it's a secret he took to the grave. I was born in the house he lived in with my grandmother and it is a big regret that I never got to meet him. James, I am afraid will always remain a huge brickwall, backed up by reinforced concrete, several ramparts and pillboxes with gun emplacements ;D
On 18th November 1915 my 3xG grandfather John McEwan died at Dennyloanhead in Stirlingshire. He had been born in Ireland as John McKeown but the spelling was changed when John and his wife moved to Scotland soon after the birth of their second son, Robert, my great great grandfather. His death certificate, signed by his son-in-law states his father as James McEwan. This caused me to search in vain until I found that his father was William McKeown, James was his grandfather. John's father was a farmer in the townland of Gortnaskea in the parish of Tullyniskan or Tullanisken in County Tyrone and John married my 3xG grandmother Matilda Skelton there in 1862 when he was 18. I think John's last year of life must have been hard. His eldest sons, William and Robert had emigrated to Pennsylvania and Indiana. His wife of 52 years had died the year before, the same year he lost two of his grandsons, two of the three sons of my GG grandfather, during the first few months of WWI. His death certificate says senility but I wonder if he just lost the will to live.
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Nov 19th
On this day in 1860 my 3X great aunt and uncle Grace Ellis and David Williams married at the house of my 2X great grandparents, Owen and Margaret Williams in Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia.
In 2003, One hundred and forty-three years later, my great uncle Owen Ellis Vincent died in Bairnsdale at the age of 97 years.
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19th November, 1658
"...but because there was an oath to be taken of fidelity to the Government as now constituted without a King, I got to be excused and returned home."
Evelyn
19th November, 1750
"Orthography, in the true sense of the word, is so absolutely necessary for a man of letters or a gentleman, that one false spelling may fix a ridicule upon him for the rest of his life."
Lord Chesterfield, to his son.
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Not an ancestral anniversary but............my youngest grandchild is 2 today and there's going to be a party with cake on Sunday. :D
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...and my Mum is 88 years young today...
keith
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19 November
It’s very quiet in my tree today. I can only find three distant ancestors.
Luce Stanton, my 4 x g.g.aunt married Samuel Crosby in Lincolnshire in 1795
Elizabeth Uffindel my 6 x g.g.aunt was baptised at Holy Trinity Church, Haddenham, Cambridgeshire in 1694
John Goad my 1st cousin 6 times removed was buried in Aldingham, Lancashire in 1830.
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On 19 November
In 1724 my 7 x great grandfather Richard Bletsoe died in Ravensden, Bedfordshire.
In 1852 my g.g uncle, William John Elliott, was born in Islington, London, second son of George Elliott and Elizabeth Mitchell.
In 1919 my g.g aunt, Rosalie Wilson, died in West Ham, Essex, aged 80. I know she never married and in 1911 she was living in Leytonstone with her brother and sister in law, my great grandparents, Frederic and Clara. She has been difficult to find on earlier censuses - she disappears after 1861!
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20th November 1820
"I can scarcely bid you goodbye in a letter. I always made an awkward bow."
John Keats, to Browne, his last words in his last written letter...
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On 20 November
Roger Postlethwaite my 4 x g.g.uncle was baptised at St Cuthbert’s Church, Kirkby Ireleth, Lancashire in 1762
William Myre my 7 x g.g.uncle was baptised at St Mary’s Church, Whicham, Cumberland in 1671
Elizabeth Francke my 9 x g.g.aunt was baptised at St John the Baptist Church, Morton by Bourne, Lincolnshire in 1608
Eva Benson (nee Willis) my aunt died in Manchester in 1995. She was 79
John Uffindel my 8 x g.grandfather was buried in Holy Trinity Church, Haddenham, Cambridgeshire in 1674. He was 34.
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Today in 1915 my Granny was 18, and married my 20-year old Granpa. He went across to France with the Royal Artillery, but he was one of the lucky ones, and came back. Granpa never spoke much about being in France, but how I wish I could ask him, and Granny, about their lives now! I was a good little girl, and was seen and not heard, but I suppose they were of a generation who maintained a stiff upper lip, so much of what happened to them would have not been discussed anyway. Remembering them both with love and admiration.
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On 20 November 1871 my 2 x great grandmother, Mary Giovannelli (nee Kingham) died in Islington, London, aged 74. I think she must have been a strong woman as she had ten children, starting in 1819 and finishing with my great grandmother Clara in 1843. All but two of the children survived to adulthood, too.
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"Violent menaces and abuse never made any people flinch from their religious opinions, or abandon any line of conduct they might have adopted in relation to them."
C. Greville, 21st November 1850
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On 21st November 1749 my 5xG grandfather Walter Gibb was christened in Bo'ness. He had been born on the 17th and was the son of Alexander Gibb and Janet Snaddon (or Sneddon). He also married a Snaddon, Margaret and she was, I think, possibly a cousin. His daughter Janet Sneddon Gibb was my 4xG grandmother.
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On 21 November
Mary Stanton my 5 x g.g.aunt was baptised at St Andrew’s Church, Rippingale in 1742. She died in June 1746 aged 3½. In August 1746 another baby daughter was baptised Mary. Out of 8 children, the family lost 4 children, 3 soon after birth and Mary living until 3½.
Helen Dalby my 6 x g.g.aunt was baptised at St Lawrence Church, Corringham, Lincolnshire in 1726. Unfortunately she died aged 4.
Alice Ann Conway (nee Cockett ) my great aunt died at 18 South View, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire in 1933. The causes of her death were 1) Cardiac Degeneration and 2) Influenza.
Elizabeth Whittaker (nee Moors) known as Betty my husband’s 2 x g.grandmother was buried at St Lawrence Church, Denton in 1872. She, her husband and youngest son were living in Leeds at the time of her death, but returned to Denton to bury her, where they stayed, as that was their home town. The cause of her death was Haematemesis and diarrohoea. Whether that meant she had a problem with her stomach or oesophagus I don’t know. I have no idea why they went to Leeds, they all worked in the hat trade in Denton and carried on in the same trade after their move to Leeds.
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On 22nd November 1854 my 4xG grandfather John Brown died in Corbiehall, Bo'ness. He was married to the above mentioned Janet Sneddon Gibb and both are buried in the Lower Wynd, Bo'ness alongside two of their sons and a daughter-in-law. John was a blacksmith, as was his son Walter, my 3xG grandfather.
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Two visionaries...
"Nothing can withstand the fury of my cause among the Stars of God and in the Abysses of the Accuser."
William Blake, to Butler. 22nd November 1802
"I am certain of nothing but of the holiness of the heart's affections - and the truth of Imagination. What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth."
John Keats to Blake. 22nd November 1817
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Just made it for today. Just as I was about to post our weekend visitors arrived for lunch instead of mid afternoon ??? so I had to stop what I was doing and go and find something for lunch. ::)
22 November was a
A good day for marriages in my family:
1754 – Joseph Gaunt and Sarah Batty my 4 x g.grandparents married at St John the Baptist Church, Penistone, Yorkshire.
1767 – Jonathan Benson and Mary Skelton my 5 x g.grandparents married at Holme Cultram Abbey Church, Cumberland.
1820 – John Stanton and Frances Chapman Cawthorn my 3 x g.grandparents married at St Mary’s Church, Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire
1856 – John Benson and Elizabeth Middleton my 2 x g.grandparents married at The Parish Church, Dalton in Furness, Lancashire. Interestingly Elizabeth Middleton is the g.granddaughter of Jonathan Benson above, whilst John Benson is no relation.
and baptisms
1775 – Thomas Hobson my 3 x g.grandfather was baptised at All Hallows Church, Almondbury, Yorkshire
1813 – Sarah Heaton (nee Legge) my OH’s 2 x g.grandmother was baptised at Trinity Church, Ely, Cambridgeshire.
and one burial
George Lockwood my 2 x g.g.uncle was buried at St Nicholas Church, Cumberworth, Yorkshire in 1832
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"I sometimes think it is most unfortunate, but it is quite true that except for my husband and his children I have no warm interest for any human being but the Duke."
Mrs Arbuthnot, 23rd November 1830
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As I sit here on 23rd November 2013 it is 150 years to the hour from the death of my 3xG grandmother, Jane Downs, in Linlithgow. She was the wife James Steen, a tanner and died from Pleurisy at their address on High Street. Her husband was present and made his mark and so I would think was illiterate. She was the daughter of Henry Downs, a baker from Bo'ness and his wife Janet Richardson. Her eldest son James, my great great grandfather, passed on her name to one of his daughters. His grandson, my grandfather, also a James, in turn gave the name to his youngest child, my mother.
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On 23 November
In 1756 my 6 x great grandmother Mary Field died in Cardington, Bedfordshire, aged 66.
In 1960 my first cousin 1 x removed, Percy William Conquest, died in Gosport, Hampshire, aged 67.
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"The languid flame of life, which before burns feebly, glows at communication with that vivid spark of friendship."
Shelley, to Miss Hitchins, 24th November 1811
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On this day, November 24th 1914, Ada Pugh aged 28 died as the result of a tragic event.
It was classed as manslaughter.
Her baby daughter of only four hours old had died on November 16th , she , poor little lamb did not even have a name and was entered as "Female Pugh"
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The coffin bearing them both, baby in mother`s arms ,was carried shoulder high over rough terrain to a little , now lonely and disused chapel. No headstone ,just a low mound to the right of some family graves.
Viktoria.
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On 24 November 1709 my 6 x great grandparents, Joseph Sewell and Ellinor Lowes, were married at Newbiggin, near Appleby, Westmorland. Ellinor died six years later in 1715, aged only 28, while Joseph lived to the age of 80.
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"But her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment."
Lord Byron to John Murray from Venice, 25th November 1816
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Having had demanding visitors over the weekend, I’m a bit delayed with these BMDs.
23 Nov – Two that I didn’t list last year.
Robert Waller my 1st cousin 4 times removed married Mary Billings at St Mary & St Peter’s Church, Hull, Yorkshire in 1868
John Chorley my 4 x g.grandfather married Rebekah Banks in Cartmel, Lancashire in 1771. Rebekah died in 1803 and in 1805 at the age of 60 John married my 4 x g.grandmother Dorothy Gardner who was a 30 year old spinster, in Ulverston, Dalton, Lancashire. They had 3 daughters before John died in 1816. In 1820 Dorothy had a son out of wedlock.
24 Nov – no direct ancestors today however
25 Nov – only 3 today apart from some very very distant ancestors.
Nicolas Smith and Ellinor Gardner my 6 x g.g.aunt and uncle married at Urswick in Furness, Lancashire in 1739
Abigail Tubbs my 2 x g.g.aunt was baptised at All Saints Church, Holbeach, Lincolnshire in 1819
Elizabeth Collett my 3 x g.g.aunt was buried at All Saints Church, Stradbroke, Suffolk in 1767
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On 25 November 1860 my great aunt Ellen Elizabeth Marshall was baptised at Lewisham St Mary. She was born a month earlier on 25 October, the eldest daughter of Robert Marshall and Mary Ann Baker.
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"I designe you for the University if you are fit for it, for I hope in God you will take to some honourable profession of your own accord, if not I am resolved you shal be of a meane one, for of some Profession, High or Low I will make you, for I abhor you should go sauntering up and down like an idle lazy fellow, and so God blesse you."
Edmund Verney, to his son, 26th November 1684
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26 November – only one new one since last year
William Chamberlaine and Ellin Southwell my 11 x g.grandparents married at St Michael and All Angels Church, Edenham, Lincolnshire in 1561
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26 Nov 1858 ... Peter Mawer, former journeyman tailor and toll bar keeper, died aged 70 at Louth, Lincs.
It was his son Charles who took my Mawer line to Hull in the 1840s.
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"...and upon my desiring his Grace to give me his kind word to the Duke of York he told me he had reason to do so, for there had been nothing done in the Navy without me."
Samuel Pepys, 27th November 1665
"...and however your factors love to runne without mee, I will look out to mend their faults, and, like patient Job, pray and sacrifice for them, as he did for his sonnes while they banquetted."
Sir Thomas Roe, to Sir Thomas Smythe, President of the East India Company, 27th November 1616
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On 27th November 1892 my great grand uncle Alexander McEwan was born in Armadale, the third child of my great great grandparents Robert McEwan and Hannah Greer. Alex joined the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1912 and with his two brothers Samuel and John left for France in 1914. Only John would return, severely wounded. Private Alexander McEwan was killed in action on 21 October 1914 and is buried in plot F23 at Le Trou Aid Post, Fleurbaix. At the time of his death his father had already emigrated to the USA and his mother was living in the village I would be born in. Alex is commemorated on the war memorial there. He named as next of kin, his sister Tilda, my great grandmother.
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On 27 November
William Benson my 2 x g.g.uncle was baptised at St Mary’s Parish Church, Kirkby Ireleth, Lancashire in 1825
Ann Lockwood my 3 x g.g.aunt was buried in Cumberworth, Yorkshire in 1794. She was one month short of her 5th birthday.
Elizabeth Hayes my 1st cousin 4 times removed was buried at St Laurence Church, Frodsham, Cheshire in 1846. She was about 30.
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"I am concerned that, as things are now managed, Oxford is the most efficient University in the world."
Ed Coplestone, Provost of Oriel College, to Richard Heber, 28th November 1804
"There are few of the worst of all sights on this road, vast green fields, dotted with trees, surrounded by a wall and damped by a variety of swampy grounds which call themselves country seats."
Henry Fox, writing about The Brighton Road, 28th November 1829
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On November 28th 1772 Alexander Auld was born in Linlithgow. He was named after his paternal grandfather and was the elder brother of my 4xG grandmother, Janet.
On 28th November 1921 Janet Brown Wardlaw was married. She was the daughter of my great grandparents George Wardlaw and Agnes Tweedie and took the Janet Brown part of her name from her grandmother, my great great grandmother. Janet was my gran's sister and she and her husband had a farm just outside the village I was born in. As a child I visited this farm often to see aunt Jen, as she was known. Her husband Sammy Conn was a relative of the family that produced Alfie Conn, the professional footballer who played for Hearts in the 1950's and gained just the one Scotland international cap.
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On this day on November 28th 1913 100 years ago today my Auntie Ella was born along with her twin sister ???? Heather sadly I cannot find anything about Heather
Was she still born or could she have been a miscarriage before this date (only going from what I heard as a child) Isabella McKenzie was born at 11,Station Cottages Newsham Northumberland .
She married George Higgins in 1945 and had an adopted son still living .
She was a wonderful lady she did her bit during WW11 as an A.R.T and has certificates for her good work
After adopting my cousin she was to get another baby but her eye sight began to bother her .At the age of 37 she was now going blind and as the years went by ,when I spent my summer holidays with her I became her eyes .When we went out to shops and also films and live shows .
Sadly as the years went by she contacted more problems and died 18.2.1983 on my sons 18th birthday. I missed saying goodbye to her as I was preparing his party when a relative phoned to say she had passed away
Elizabeth
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On 28 November 1949 my first cousin 2 x removed Alice Rosina Rogers, nee Giovannelli, died in Islington, aged 91. She had married John Henry Rogers, who was a cousin and several years younger than her, in 1901. According to her marriage certificate she was 34, but she was in fact 43, while John Henry was 29.
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"...lyk as the French King before wrote and bosted unto his mother that he had of his owne mynd passed in to Italy, so tis lykly that she shall have shortly cause to wryte agayn to him that it had to be mych bettere and more wisedome for hym to abide at home."
Sir Thomas More to Wolsey, 29th November 1524. (She certainly did. He was captured on the way back)
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"War is little more than a catalogue of mistakes and misfortunes."
Winston Churchill, 30th November 1950
"Excess of refinement appears to abolish the great vices, but only undermines the great virtues."
Henry Fox, 30th November 1829
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Not an ancestral anniversary but son#2 is 42 today........born at lunchtime and has been interested in food ever since. ;D
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On 30 November
In 1707 my 5 x great grandmother Judith Bettle was baptised at Cardington, Bedfordshire, the daughter of William Bettle and Susannah Goss. She married Thomas Conquest in 1726 and is the first person of my Conquest ancestors who I can definitely place in Cardington. I don't know where Thomas originated, although there are some possibilities outside Bedfordshire.
In 1736 my 6 x great grandparents Edward Crowsley and Ann Fanch were married at St Mary's Church, Bedford. Ann was Edward's first wife and became the mother of my 5 x great grandfather Samuel. After her death in 1750, Edward married again to Mary Britain, and through their son William also became my 4 x great grandfather. How difficult that was to sort out!