Four Trees -Our Great Grandmothers

[yn9man]

Zelley -

Thanks for the nice comment.

yn9man

[Zelley]

Zelley -

Thanks for the nice comment.

yn9man

Another neat thing about your four is they cover the territory - Glasgow to London, and
New York - San Francisco.
(think of those key cities when they were there and the changes over the years).

[gazania]

I think my four great grand mothers must have been memorable women as knowledge, photos and in one case her bible with family history has survived in the family.  They are:

Caroline HALL (LANE) b 1825 Frampton Cotterell GLS d 1876 Clifton, Bristol. (GG father remarried)
Annie PALIN (CUNDITH) b 1838 Branston LIN d 1877 Brisbane Q (Known as "poor Annie" as she died from dysentery 10 mths after migrating) (GGfather remarried)
Susannah Rock CARLING (WAREHAM) b 1841 Bedford d 1931 Edinburgh
Mary Jane FOX (ALDERMAN) b 1857 Warwick QLD Australia d 1941 Grafton NSW. Widow for 35 years.

Gazania

[deeiluka]

My great grandmothers are.....

Sarah Elvina Button born 3rd August 1874 Barking Essex
Emily Elizabeth Selway born 1848 Bath Somerset (still waiting for her Birth certificate)
Mary Ellen Coles born 25th January 1866 Raunds Northamptonshire
Lydia Tomblin Clarke born 3rd July 1858 in Market Overton, Rutland

I can go back
1 generation from Sarah Elvina Button
2 generations from Emily Elizabeth Selway
Several generations from Mary Ellen Coles
1 generation from Lydia Tomblin Clarke

They all only married once and both Sarah and Emily migrated as children with their parents to Australia - Sarah in 1878 and Emily in 1848 as a very young baby.

Mary Ellen's eldest daughter married the third son of Lydia and they migrated to South Oz as a young married couple in 1911.

The only one I don't have a photo of is Lydia. She died as a youngish woman aged just 45 - as a result of childbirth.
.....dee

[yn9man]

Zelley -

Have been to two of of the four cities --- London and New York, and lived in San Francisco for a few years. 

I have seen significant changes in those cities and I can only imagine what my relatives did, saw and lived through.

Hope to get to Glasgow next summer ....

yn9man

[PaulaToo]

I have a full hand of Great Grandmothers.
Greatgrandfathers well all right, three and a probable notch on a bedpost.

On Father's side,
Gran Sarah with her mother Emily Price/Baker 1840-1931
Grandfather Joe his mother Ann King Johnson/Bartlett 1831-1889

On Mother's side,
Grandfather Willaim Stevens Mathias, his mother Martha John/Mathias, who spoke only Welsh, 1821-1882
and the fun girl,
Gran Harriet with her mother Eliza Ann Smith/Moore/Webb/Wicks....whatever. 1840-1906

[annieRN]

All my great grandmothers were born about 1845.  I have Emma Baines (Leicester)
Mary Burch Harvey (Somerset)
Ann Withers (Somerset)
Ann Cavvel (Somerset)

I only have one picture but do have pictures of two great great grandmothers, one born 1805 and one born 1820.

                                 Anne

[Cal241]

My Great grandmothers are

Harriet Smith b. 1850- married Robert Shiel (dads maternal side) Melrose, Scotland
Caroline Berenger Bigg b. 1856- married Edward Charles Ingram (dads paternal side) London

Elizabeth Alice McKinneley 1870 - married David Marshall (mums maternal side) Liverpool
Elizabeth Evans 1861 - married John Warburton Kerfoot (mums paternal side) St Asaph, Wales


Have pictures of Harriet and the two Elizabeths, non of Caroline though, but I have one of her mother in law (Caroline Morrish) and my avatar is her sisiter in law

Cal 

[Sueh2]

Found my four too!

Lydia Sarah Banks        1872-1948 b Old Stratford, Warks
Sarah Jane Wilkes        1869-1960 b West Bromwich, Staffs

Elizabeth Palmer           1865-         b Bristol
Martha Phipps               1849-1924 b Bristol

I love the name Lydia Sarah, sounds so soft and gentle....don't think she was though!

Martha Phipps sounds hard and bossy, but don't know much about her.

Funny how we respond to names, do others find themselves doing this or is it just me being fanciful?

Sue