Four Trees -Our Great Grandmothers

[honey-roma88]

My Great Grandmothers

Emily Cane of Cambridgeshire/London/Sussex (b. 1877)
She was of Romany and English blood. Her husband was English and French.
Married a womanizing drunk who ran off with other women often. Had five children, 3 boys and 2 girls. Lived in abject poverty, in a slum where the local residents built a wall around the area they were living in to keep the two places separate. Her two daughters allegedly died of starvation but there has always been some suspicion over their deaths especially as neither their births and deaths were ever registered.

Florence Maud Amelia Braham (the only one I ever knew - Nan) from London (b. 1905)
Of Romany/Irish and Jewish blood. She was a drunk and didn't really have emotions. She had two children, my grandmother and her little brother, Eddie.  After my great grandad died she married a much younger fellow drunk who tried to poison her.

Elizabeth Maria Anderson of Drumavady, County Antrim
My Irish grandmother's mother. Married Samuel Killough. Had 3 daughters, the eldest of whom died as a baby.

Mary Elizabeth MacRoberts of Saintfield, County Down
Not a nice woman...basically.

[Zelley]

I have:


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

Good to see the Dorset connection.

Is Susanna the same Susanna that married Henry Thomas Turner
in the late 1870's, and did they ever reside in Parkstone.

My Dorset kin were mainly in the Weymouth region, but one
Richard Zelley did live in the Wareham area for a few years and
did pass away in Parkstone area.

[Pilgarlic]

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[littleclaire]

I have 4 Great Grandmothers

Rachel Hankinson b1903 Pity Me, Durham (my Nana - we used to stay at her house at Christmas)
Mary Emily Susan Wiseman b 1882 Bishop Auckland, Durham
Margaret Winifred Salisbury Jones b 1894 Chester
Hannah Bide Wray b 1890 Hartlepool Durham

8 GG Grandmothers
Sarah Jane Cruddas b 1873 Pity me, Durham (she has been the most difficult of them!)
Elizabeth Young b 1864 Hebburn, Durham
Jane Waterhouse b 1858 Bishop Auckland, Durham
Dinah Smart b 1856 Hawkesbury, Glos
Margaret Salisbury Jones b1858 Llanfihengel, Anglesey ( a real problem - Jones married Jones, daughter of a vicar)
Agnes Anne Bettington b 1870, died at the young age of 37, had a policeman husband who was a womaniser and had at least 3 wives and numerous girlfriends (not all at the same time - but they did overlap - tut tut) - she was from Tything of the Whitstones, Worcs
Kezia Gray b 1857 Hackney, London, daughter of a Baptist Minister (this is the holy generation!!)
Sarah Rouse b 1855, Staffs

My G Grandmothers were close together - but before that the family was spread out before they all headed north (obviously the place to be.....)
Claire

[243rose]

Four G Grandmothers were.

Louisa BATES   b. Walworth 1870 d. Battersea 1912 married to George ROSE
Annie SMITH    b. Clapham 1881   d. Thornton Heath 1963ish married to Albert Edward SPARKES

Caroline Elizabeth PYE  b. Upper Marsh, Lambeth 1880.   d. 1915 Brompton Hospital. married to Harry CUTHBERT.
Eliza Mary KNOWLES     b. St Anne Soho, Westminster 1876  d. 1953 Kentish Town.MArried to Charles George ROSE

That makes 2 G Grandfathers with the same surname.

[genjen]

At least your two with the same name aren't called John Smith, as my maternal greats are!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Jen

[243rose]

that wouldn't be good.
I have sympathy. i'm hunting a Thomas BROWN in London.
I also have a SMITH line and a Collins line.

Oh well !!!!!!!!!!

[KateW]

My four Great Grandmothers were:-

Lilian Candler, b.1868 Brixton Hill, Surrey, died 1931.
Elizabeth Janes Lewis, b.1875 Aberayron, Cardiganshire, died 1956 Llandovery, Camarthenshire.
Kate Taylor, b.1867, Portsea, Hants, died 1950 Portsmouth.
Violet Florence Garner, b.1880, Wolverton, Bucks, died 1956, Bedford.

Sadly I never knew them.
KateW.

[Treelover]

Hi

I've got all my great grandmothers, their maiden names were Sankey, Williams, Hunt & Atkinson.

Got 7 definate G G Grandmothers and their husbands), Dodd, Billingham, Lee, Redfern. Round, James & Kennerley - the eighth is an Elizabeth I think (my brickwall wall) 

Joan