Four Trees -Our Great Grandmothers

[Lemmey]

Ooooo.  Can I adopt Leomantine and Egbert??  Would love to have different names like that in the tree.

Its actually Leamantinia I believe     Bit of a nightmare to search for as enumerators spelt it differently and she's been variously called Leamantinia, Lemantinia, Leman, and now Leomantine    Its actually a name thats been used throughout the family (my Leamantinia had an aunt Lemintinia etc).

Because of the more frequent recording of the name Lemantinia I think that is how it would have been pronounced.  The only certificate (marriage) I have for her she is called 'Lemmey' ............ well apart from the one where they called her Emily 

p.s.  The Gardner family is from Kent originally I think and I see you have relatives from there so you never know 

[chellin2]

Actually Lemmy

The name is pronounced Lementina, well thats how my grandmother and my Aunts was pronounced

Great name if I do say so myself, shame it has not been carried on through your family and mine

Chellin

[Lemmey]

Actually Lemmy

The name is pronounced Lementina, well thats how my grandmother and my Aunts was pronounced

Oops thats what I meant - who put that 'i' in there   

Great name if I do say so myself, shame it has not been carried on through your family and mine

Chellin

I know so I 'borrowed' it for here.  I'd quite like to be called Lementina

Thanks for the correction Cuz 

[Zelley]

Looking back, one of my great grandmothers was born in 1857.
if she was still with us she would turn 150 in 2007.  Well the fact is she passed away in 1922, but thanks to this and other sites,
she remains alive in words and thoughts.

[Walcha72]

These are my four great grandmothers.

Helen Martin Cowan - born 1881, Teviothead, Roxburghshire, Scotland, died 1978 Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland

Jane (or Jean) Allan McCormick - born 1872 Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland, died 1930 Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland

Florence Rose Roper (Ma Hoy) - born 1893, Walcha, NSW, Australia, died 1978, Walcha, NSW Australia

Dorothy Sarah Hayes (Granny Dot) - born 1895, Walcha, NSW, Australia, died 1976, Walcha, NSW Australia

I remember both Ma Hoy and Granny Dot, but my first trip to Scotland wasn't until 2 years after Helen Cowan had died.

Debbie

[missjano]

Four Trees - Our Great Grandmothers

Kate Elizabeth J Willcox      1869    Woolwich Kent.

Nellie Louise May Adams    1885     Hendon, Middlesex

Emma Sophia Willis            1882     Streatham, Tooting Graveney.

Still working on the 4th Great Grandmother. It bit tougher than the other ones!!!
         

[jeanhemm]

These are my four great grandmothers:

Sarah Susannah Oxby b 1849 Birmingham
Mary Elizabeth Semmence b 1865 Birmingham
Margaret Reid b 1865 East Kilbride, Lanarkshire
Janet Hamilton Nicol b 1855 Hamilton, Lanarkshire

and I've managed to trace 7 out of 8 gt gt grandmothers

Jane Wilson b 1830 Motherwell, Lanarkshire
Janet Anderson b 1824 Dalziel, Lanark
Elizabeth Richmond b 1841 Ireland
Jane Johnstone b 1820 Londonderry, Ireland
Mary Roberts b 1831 Birmingham
Ellen Hoare b 1837 Sheffield
Fanny Moore b 1818 Birmingham

The missing one is Sarah Susannah Oxby's mother.

[ryan]

Fortunately I've got all 8 of my Great-Great Grandmothers too:

Florence Caroline Mary Bignell b. 1871 in Peckham, London.
Emma Laura Belcher b. 1876 in Merton, London.
Berta Foelke b. 1872 in Olesnica, Poland.
Berta Manthei b. 1875 in Olesnica, Poland.
Rebecca Ann Hart b. 1867 in Exeter, Devon.
Mary Ellen O'Callaghan b. 1877 in Cork, Ireland.
Sarah Elsby b. 1855 in Burslem, Staffordshire.
Ellen Burke b. 1859 in Tunstall, Staffordshire.

I like this thread, nice to see so many names   

Ryan.

[Q.]

Louisa A. Green - b. 1865 in Raventhorpe, Yorkshire.  Became a Salvation Army Officer along with her husband William Platts.  It must have been a tough life for the entire family.  My grandfather never spoke much about them but I know he ran away to Canada at the age of 15.

Mary A. James - The daughter of a Welsh shipwright, she met and married a Scots Lawyer or Law clerk (who really knows).  I think they got divorced but once again...no one talked about it.

Anne Donnelly - Born in Cardiff of a huge Irish family.


Gertrude Gill -  My favourite.  Her father was a teacher and her grandfather a professor of education, she loved to learn.  She was born after her parents returned to England from teaching in Singapore.  She fell in love with Charles Alden and followed him to Canada where they were married. 

Didn't the women of those days have hard lives?  They were truly amazing though!   

BTW, I do love reading all of your stories and seeing such a vast array of surnames.  Thanks for sharing.