Four Trees -Our Great Grandmothers

[Jon Byrne]

I have all 4 of mine, pretty easy for 3 of them as they died in pretty recent history and I remember one of them, however I know have a picture of the one I had never even heard of, she is probably my favourite and most intriguing one of my ancestors so far.

Rosina Edith Gower      - 1872 - 1951
Eliza Doris Magee         - 1912 - 1986
Winifred Lilian Herrick   - 1906 - 1981
Bridget Hoey/Hoy         - 1901 - 1981

Winifred was born in London and died a few weeks before I was born, Bridget was born in Sligo and dies a few weeks after I was born. Eliza was born in Stockport, I have fond memories of visiting as a child, we called her GranGran.

Rosina as you can see was 30 years older than the next oldest, she was born in London in a workhouse although they where only there for a week.

Now I have put these 4 down in one list I have realised that they have been some of the most enjoyable to find out about so far.

[Cal241]

my 4 g grandmothers are ..

Caroline Beringer Bigg - London (my fathers paternal grandmother)
Harriet Smith- Scotland  (my fathers maternal grandmother)
Elizabeth Evans - Wales (my mothers paternal grandmother)
Elizabeth McKinnelley - Liverpool (my mothers maternal grandmother)

The 4 corners of the UK

 



 

[Winterbloom21]

What lovely pictures there are on this thread.     I like the idea of highlighting great grandmothers in this way.   They're a real bridge to the part of the past that we know only on paper - so near in some ways because of our own grandmothers' memories.

My four were Mary Devlin from  Toomebridge County Antrim, Mary Malone originally from Lurgan but married, lived and died in Glasgow and Kate and Margaret Kennedy from Little Island  County Cork.    Kate and Margaret emigrated to London in the 1880s and subsequently  Kate's son married Margaret's daughter, so my maternal grandparents were first cousins.

[Winterbloom21]

Ha!   It's only when doing the poll about 'have you traced each of them back a generation' that I notice that I've done that thing that we all do.      Mary Devlin was my grandmother - it was her mother Mary McCormick who was my great grandmother.       Poor Mary Devlin seems so much further away because she was only 29 when she died of TB in 1916.

[ann255]

Sarah Ann Garrity
born 1852 in Rochester Kent and died 1942 in Grays Essex

Esther Pettit
born 1860 in Stanstead Suffolk and died 1921 Grays Essex

Ellen Dearing
born 1857 in Snodland Kent and died 1931 in Strood

Anne Harriet Gibbs
born 1849 in Shorne Kent and died 1925 in Wainscott Kent

[coombs]

Helen Edgington born 17 July 1895, Oxford, Oxfordshire, died 17 July 1945, Rochford, Essex.
Violet May Clift born 1st June 1899, Notley, Essex, died 1 January 1953, Little Wakering, Essex.
Olive Mary Taylor born 23 September 1887, Stambridge, Essex, died 31 December 1946, Rochford, Essex.
Catherine Isabella Coombs born 22nd September 1889, Islington, London, died 4th March 1930, Auckland, Durham.

[sallyyorks]

Worsted spinner and militant trade unionist from Bradford, Yorkshire.
Flax spinner from Lancashire.
Cotton spinner from Manchester/Chesire area.
Ag lab/coal miners wife from N Wales.

[pinefamily]

Elizabeth Ann Kempster b. 1851 Hardwick cum Weedon, Bucks.; died 1935 Port Adelaide, South Australia.

Jane Smith, b.1856 Maybole, Ayrshire; died 1924 Largs Bay, South Australia.

Sarah Jane Edwards b. 1862 Redruth, Cornwall; died 1947 Brighton, South Australia.

Harriet Carrington b. 1879 Kapunda, South Australia; died 1953 Murray Bridge, South Australia.

[tdgower2]

Here are mine:

Florence Ellen Smith- B. 1900 Barton Mills, Suffolk, D. 1967 Suffolk.
Phyllis Mary Shinn- B. 1915 Worlington, Suffolk, D. 1989 Tuddenham St. Mary, Suffolk.
Gladys Cook- B. 1911 Stetchworth, Cambs, D. 1991 Hertfordshire.
Bessie Patton- B. 1919 Langham, Suffolk, D. 2009 Suffolk.

When i was born 3 of these were still alive but i was too young to remember Phyllis and Gladys. I knew my Nanna Bessie, although she suffered an unfortunate stroke in 1997 which she never properly recovered from. I always remember her with fondness however