On This Day in NOVEMBER .....

[LizzieW]

On 11 November
Roger Postlethwaite and Agnes Addison, m y 6 x g.granddparents were married in Kendal Parish Church, in 1716.

John Pemberton my 3 x g.g.uncle was baptised at St Oswald’s Church, Lover Peover, Cheshire in 1770

My 2 x g.g.uncle Thomas Woodward was baptised  at St Laurence Church, Frodsham, Cheshire in 1821
 
Phillis Sayer (nee Collett) my 2 x g.g.aunt died in Stradbroke, Suffolk in 1841, aged 31.  The cause of her death was consumption.  Unfortunately that meant that her father, my 3 x g.grandfather, who lived with her and her family had to go into the workhouse, where he died nearly 5 years later aged 87.  I’m surprised that he didn’t catch TB from his daughter.

Sarah  Gilchrist (nee Manning), my 3 x g.grandmother was buried at St Botoph’s Church, Boston, Lincolnshire in 1828.

Also remembering today my g.uncle George Reuben Benson, who died on 24 November 1917 during the Battle of Cambrai, France and my other distant ancestors who also died during WWI.

[quest40]

On 11 November 1911 a second cousin 2 x removed, Thomas James Conquest, died in Pontiac City, Oakland, Michigan, USA.

[Seoras]

On 10th November 1765 my 5xG grandparents Alexander Auld and Mary Ingles married in Linlithgow.

10th November 1864 my 4xG grandfather James Greer died in Scotland. He was the son of a farmer from Ballinderry in Ireland.

One day later, on the 11th November 1864 my great grandfather George Wardlaw was born in Armadale. He was named after his grandfather, another George Wardlaw. My grandfather was also a George and so of course am I. George died in the same village both my mother and myself were born, and in my case on the same street.

On 11th November 1765 the first children of my 5xG grandparents Alexander Auld and Mary Ingles were born in Linlithgow. They were twin girls named Jean, after her mother and Henrietta after his. Jean didn't survive though they gave a later child the same name. This pattern was repeated with my grandmother Hannah, she herself being a twin, her sister Mary Anne surviving only a few weeks.

[LizzieW]

On 12 November 
John Lockwood my 3 x g.grandfather married Elizabeth Hinchliff ( my 3 x g.grandparents oops) at St John the Baptist Church, Penistone, Yorkshire in 1810.  They had one son and then she disappears, I can't find a death for her, but as far as I can tell John re-married in 1812 to another Elizabeth and had 7 more children.

Thomas Redmile and Magdalen Chickley my 6 x g.grandparents married at St John the Baptist Church, Morton by Bourne, Lincolnshire in 1721.

Charles Dawson my husband’s 2 x g.grandfather was baptised at the Parish Church, Prestwich, Lancashire in 1815.

Alice Okey my 6 x g.g.aunt was baptised at Holy Trinity Church, Haddenham, Cambridgeshire in 1693

[quest40]

On 12 November
In 1826 my maternal great grandfather, Robert Marshall, was baptised at St Botolph Church, Bishopsgate, London.  In the 1950s I worked very near to this church, but had no idea then that an ancestor had been baptised there!
In 1961 my paternal grandmother, Elizabeth Ann Elliott, died in Leytonstone, Essex, aged 80.  I visited my grandparents regularly, but I never got close to Grandma, although the opposite was true with my much loved Grandpa.

[Keith Sherwood]

"But I think it is a blessing to have a good word said for anyone of that unfortunate class of men called "Princes" who, generally speaking, are but poor, contemptible, odious creatures."
Princess Charlotte, on 12th November 1815

[Ewan]

On the 12 November, my dear old mate 'my dad' left us.  Still missing you dad with your wicked sense of humour  .  So sorry none of us were there when you were called, hope you are free of your pain and forever resting in peace.

[LizzieW]

13 Nov
Joseph Gaunt and Hannah Scholefield my 3 x g.g.uncle and aunt were married in Darton, Barnsley, Yorkshire in 1786.  They were married 53 years before Hannah died aged 81.  Joseph lived another 11 years and died aged 90.

John Whittaker and Anne Arnfield my OH's 3 x g.g.uncle and aunt were married at Glossop Parish Church, Derbyshire in 1786.

Myra Betney (nee Benson) my aunt died in Manchester in 2011.  She was 94 and the youngest and last surviving of my dad’s siblings.

And most importantly one of my sons was born 45 years ago today - I didn't know I was old enough to have a son that age, and he's not the eldest either. 

Lizzie

ps.  This is a good exercise, I was checking my 7 x g.grandfather who I thought had been baptised on 13 November, but the year I'd got meant he would only have been 12 when he married.  Quick check of the parish records shows I'd got the year wrong, only by 27 years.  He actually married my 7 x g.grandmother when he was 39, having previously been married to someone with the same Christian name as his 2nd wife.  These people are so confusing.

[Keith Sherwood]

"You shall have made this island, which is but as the Suburbs of the Old World, a Bridge, a Galley to the new."
Donne, from his sermon to the Virginia Settlers, 13th November 1622