Four Trees -Our Great Grandmothers

[MarieC]

Goodness me, Zelley!  That's spine-tingly stuff!!!  Your ancestors must have wanted you to do the family history before you went to join them!!!

MarieC

[Zelley]

Goodness me, Zelley!  That's spine-tingly stuff!!!  Your ancestors must have wanted you to do the family history before you went to join them!!!
MarieC

Doing a family history would be cool, but I'm not ready to join the late ancestors in the reading room.

Regarding young Herbert, I started a web site called GREEN LEAVES - Lost Children, he received top billing on the Home Page.  Also, did a poem, it was published by the Forward Press group in England.


Also, created a blended story of the 1956, the 1897 storm
and a 1900 drowning of three in the ocean close to Nanaimo.  The common fixture in all three happenings was a Sail Boat.





 

[Zelley]

It has been some months, welcome input from any new members

[bitty_matriarch]

My 4 Gt Grandmothers were:

Rachel Ann RUSSELL [my namesake]
Annie Maria LAVENDER
Catherine WATSON
& Ellen SMITH

With help  , have managed to get back one, if not two, generations!  Only problem is Catherine WATSON's mother, Catherine O'CONNOR, from Bandon, Co. Cork.  Not had much success trying to find out her family details.

   Ann

[devongirl]

My 4 Great Grandmothers were all from London

Emma Matilda Allen
Jane Strong
Matilda Heath
Mary Ann Smith -  can you imagine how hard she was to find?  But the immense satisfaction when I did! and that was in the days before the census was available online.

Daisy

[KathMc]

My 4 great-grandmothers were:

Margaret Wells
Catherine Hayes
Margaret Murphy
Alice Gillen

I have them each back at least one generation, some sides mre. Margaret Wells I have back the farthest and that turns to to be my extremely interesting side of the family, with  lawyers and architects. And my 4x great grandfather decided not to follow in his father's architectural footsteps, but to become a silk ribbon weaver instead. 

Kath

[PrueM]

My four great-grandmothers:

Euphemia Laurel SWAN, born Sydney, 1856
Charlotte Sarah LANGWORTHY, born Jersey, CI, 1863
Rachel NANCARROW, born Sydney, 1878
Emily Caroline Ethel INGRAM, born London, 1881

I was lucky enough to know Ethel (Emily) - she died in 1975 when I was 5 years old.  We called her "Granny in the Mountains"    because she lived in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney.  I have traced all of these ladies back several generations 

Prue

[JK]

My four Great Grandma's were

Mary Ann Grace born 1888, Amersham
Minnie Emily Kearns born 1881, Portsmouth
Annie Charlotte Colwell born 1862, Aylburton
Emma Agnes Hayward born 1875, Camden Town

The only one I knew anything about before I started my tree was Emma, my journey to find the other 3 and generations well beyond has been the most satisfying, humbling experience of my life. The jobs they did, the lives they lead, the struggles they had, far more interesting than any novel. What did I do with my time before family research?

[JK]

BTW Prue having photographs of all 4 is just showing off, I bet many of us are green with envy of that!!