Four Trees -Our Great Grandmothers

[genjen]

And mine:

Catherine Shaw, born 2/5/1870, Nairn - died 30/8/1939, Nairn
Jane Milne - 1/10/1871, Cruden, Aberdeenshire, died 21/1/1958, Aberdeen
Harriet Knight - Nov. 1864, wedgewood, Staffordshire, died 15/4/1899, Middlesbrough
Sarah Ann Bland - 1865, Aiskew, Bedale, North Yorkshire, died 1939, Co.Durham

G.G Grandmothers: seven of them - if I ever find the eighth, you will hear me shouting, wherever you are!

Ermina Cant  - 1839, Brightlingsea, Essex,
Margaret Smith, c1820, Nairn, died 1886, Nairn
Jane Raitt - 6/11/1849, Aberdeen - 22/11/1909, Skene, Aberdeenshire
Margaret Daniel - 1848, Cruden, died Aberdeen
Jane White - c1830, Staffordshire ( Wednesbury or Cannock), died 1895, Middlesbrough
Sarah Bushby - 1826, Northallerton, N.Yorkshire
Mary Iley, 1823, Yarm, N. Yorkshire

Jen

[LoneyBones]

My four Great Grandmothers are;
Emma Eliza Cooper, born Wednesday 30th January, 1850. Gloucester Street Sydney, Australia.
Edith Bonnin Thomas, born Wednesday 27th September, 1865. Downie Terrace, Newcastle, Australia.
Emma Florence Goodwin, born Wednesday 11th October, 1848. Somewhere in London.
Sarah Handy, born Saturday 6th April, 1844. 19 Pilgrim Street. Walworth Common, Newington, Surry.
I also have all eight of my G-G Grandmothers but I'm still missing  five of my G-G-G Grandmothers. They are Mrs Jones and Mrs Robert, somewhere in Conway, North Wales. Mrs Handy in Aston Juxta Birmingham, Mrs Instant somewhere in Stepney and Louisa Constance Mrs Innis sailing the seas between Scotland and Portugal.
Hopefully I'll find them in the next twenty years of research.
Lovely ladies all. (Well most) One or two were very adventurous, sailing on whaling voyages and living in tents on the gold fields, but they survived to pass on their genes.  Which is the whole point of life and genealogy.
Leonie.

[Mumsie2131]

My four gt grandmother's are :-
Elizabeth Roebuck b 1837  Yorkshire
Sarah Riley             b1848   Cheshire
Charlotte Goddard  b 1829  Cheshire
Elizabeth Greaves   b 1837  Cheshire.

I have recently managed all 8 gt gt grandmothers
Elizabeth Hellawell, Hannah Kenyon, Lucy Harrop, Ann Collier, Tabitha Ingham, Peggy Shepley, Martha Ashworth and Hannah Broadhurst.

I only have 6 of the 16 3X gt grandmothers, still working on it.

[redkop]

Hi,

my four gt grandmothers are:

Charlotte Elizabeth ELLIS, b 1876, Liverpool.
Ann COLLINS, b 1876, Liverpool.
Isabella DUTTON, b 1878, Liverpool.
Mary Elizabeth Jane BIBBY, b 1886, Liverpool.

I have also found all 8 gt gt grandmothers. 

And found 11 out of 16 gt gt gt grandmothers, 2 of the missing 5 are from Ireland 

I have photographs of all of my gt grandmothers, except Charlotte, but hopefully it's on it's way as I have just been in contact with someone who has one. Charlotte married George MCLENNAN, they had 4 children, the first 2 died before their first birthdays.

Looking at my gt grandmother Mary, you wouldn't want to mess with her    But, my mum says she was a lovely, warm grandma, nick- named Mammy Mo. She says she had a very big squishy knee to sit on    Mary married Harold MASON. Her daughter, my grandmother told me her father was killed 2 weeks before WW1 ended, being the eldest, she had to leave school to help Mammy Mo with her 5 younger siblings.

Ann married Robert Parry BALL, and was widowed young, after having 3 children. She later married Henry LAW. I have her church bible with all the little cards inside. It has been well used and loved.

I actually met Isabella, she died when I was 10, a very small lady. She married John MILLER (my biggest brick wall) They had 8 children, 1 girl and 7 boys who all served in WW2. I have some great pics of them all in uniform.

Red   

[Zelley]

For the recent contributions, thanks for your participation in keeping the memory of our great grandmothers front and center
where they belong.

[nudge67]

My gt-grandmothers are:

Beatrice Olive BOWYER (1883-1972) of Woodville, South Australia.

Emma Louise PIKE (1872-1925) of Poole, Dorset.

Florence May CHESSON (1895-1987) of Thebarton, South Australia.

Gertrude Olive SHAW (1893-1953) of Kent Town, South Australia.

While two were alive in my lifetime, gt grandma Florrie is the only one I remember.

[perth tiger]

ethel hammond 1879-1949 rothwell to castleford, did own a guesthouse in scarborough for a time

alice harper 1875-1936 born in hambleton moved to castleford

miranda amelia mincher 1886-1968 lived in castleford all her life. i should remember her but i can't, i know i met her often

clara ruddock 1885-1941 lived in hunslet, leeds all her life

[casram]

Mine are
Elizabeth  Sweeney born 1838 in India, outlived 2 husbands, had 10 children, moved around the world with her husband who was in the Indian Army, died in Dublin.

Elizabeth Leahy born c 1850 Donegal spent all her life there as a farmer’s wife, brought up 12 children, at least 2 of whom emigrated to Toronto.

Mary Jane May born  1851 Bampton, Oxfordshire also outlived 2 husbands. She died Oxfordshire in 1931 having lived much of her life in Newington, South London where she met and married my great grandfather. Mary had 8 children, 4  by each of her husbands.

Eliza Stebbings born 1864 in Newington, South London where her father was a policeman. Died in 1895 of consumption when my grandfathe, her only child,  was 3.

[Paul Caswell]

I have:

Elizabeth Cousins b1857 in Wymondham, Norfolk. Moved to Durham in the 1860s with her family. Had just 3 children as far as I know.

Susanna Holland Bradford Stockley b1856 in Wareham, Dorset. Her mother was a Bradford and her gran was a Holland. Had 7 children.

Lucy Sear b1858 in Woodbury, Cambridgeshire. Had 10 children.

Christiana Sophia Amey b1866 in Haverhill, Suffolk. Had just 2 children. Husband was a Police Constable in London for 20-30 years.

I have also found all 8 of my 2nd great grandmothers. One never married.

All but two of my 15 third greats too. The two remaining are lost in Middlesex and Westmeath somewhere.

Paul