On This Day in NOVEMBER .....

[LizzieW]

17 November

John Bayldon my 8 x g.grandfather was baptised at Kirkburton, Huddersfield in 1588.  He was 36 when he married my 8 x g.grandmother who was 23, I don’t know if he’d been married previously.  They had 5 children and he died in 1638.

Elsie Cockett my mum’s eldest sister died in 1920 aged 24.  The cause of her death was Tuberculosis and haemoptysis for 3 days.  My mum always said that Elsie broke a blood vessel in her throat whilst coughing which caused her death.  Whether this was true, or whether my mum just assume this on seeing Elsie coughing up blood I don’t know.  Mum was only 9 at the time.  Elsie would have been my aunt but she died before she became anyone’s aunt, my oldest cousin wasn't born until 1927.

Alice Dawson (nee Crompton) my husband’s 2 x g.grandmother died at 5 Gorton Street, Salford in 1868 aged 60.  The cause of her death was paralysis 12 months, effusion on the brain 6 hours.  I assume she must have had some sort of stroke originally, followed by another one causing her death.

John Hobson my 2 x g.g.uncle was buried at St John the Evangelist Church, Denby, Yorkshire in 1876.  He was 78 years old.

[Keith Sherwood]

"I never meant the Anglo-American army to be stuck in North Africa.  It is a springboard, not a sofa."

Winston Churchill, to his Chiefs of Staff, 18th November 1942.

[quest40]

On 18 November

In 1750 my 6 x great grandfather, Thomas Ashwell, was buried in Cardington, Bedfordshire.

In 1883 my great aunt, Katharine Susan Conquest, was born in Camberwell, Surrey, the youngest child of William and Louisa (nee Crowsley).  At some stage in the early 1900s she emigrated to Canada, but I haven't found her on passenger lists.  She is on the 1911 Canada census with her mother and brother Henry.

In 1895 a first cousin 1 x removed, Maud Alice Conquest, was born in Walworth, Surrey.  She was the daughter of William George and Eliza Jane (nee Stevens).  I think she may have remained unmarried, as I have never found a marriage record.

In 1888 two second cousins 1x removed, Jessie Eliza Peppercorn and Alfred Frederick Rogers, married at Shoreditch St Mark, London.  Alfred died in 1906 and Jessie married again in 1910 to William Waples.

[LizzieW]

On 18 November 
John Hobson and Elizabeth Singleton my 6 x g.grandparents married at St Peter’s Church, Huddersfield, Yorkshire in 1697.  John was 24 and Elizabeth 27. 

William Spraggett Clarke my husband’s 2 x g.grandfather was baptised at Wellesbourne, Warwick in 1829.  He and his wife married aged 21 and both died tragically.  He hung himself aged 53 and she fell downstairs and fractured her skull aged 78.

Elias Dyke my husband’s 3 x g.grandfather (and father in law of William Spraggett Clark above) was baptised at Budbrooke, Warwick in 1795.  He and his wife were 28 and 27 respectively when they married.  Elias was a wheelwright but their children became hatters or silk finishers in the hat trade.

Mary Randal my 5 x g.g.aunt was baptised at Sutton, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire in 1698

William Uffindel my 6 x g.g.uncle was baptised at Holy Trinity Church, Haddenam, Cambridgeshire in 1703

Phillis Sayer (nee Collett) my 2 x g.g.aunt was buried at Stradbroke, Suffolk in 1841.  The cause of her death was consumption.  She was 31 years old.  Unfortunately, due to her untimely death, her father, my 3 x g.grandfather had to go into the workhouse where he lived until his death 5 years later aged 87.  He must have been a touch old fellow not to catch the TB from his daughter.

[Seoras]

18th November is the birthday of my maternal grandfather, James and he is a major stumbling block in ny research. His mother Elizabeth, my great grandmother was a widow with 4 children by the age of 24. Now I know all about their father thanks to my 2nd cousin, the grandson of one of these children away in South Australia. A few years after losing her first husband, Elizabeth remarried. There was one child, a daughter from this marriage and I know all about her father and with help from RC have traced his family in places as far apart as Ireland, Scotland, Australia and the USA. However, in between the death of her first husband and her second marriage, Elizabeth produced my grandfather. On his birth certificate, there is no father mentioned and he is described as illigitimate. All his life he kept his mother's maiden name as a surname. James died before I was born but I am told by someone who knew him that he was a man with a big heart and respected by all in the village. Even my own mother had no idea that he was illigitimate until I told her. I wonder if he knew, surely he must have asked who his father was. Alas if he did, it's a secret he took to the grave. I was born in the house he lived in with my grandmother and it is a big regret that I never got to meet him. James, I am afraid will always remain a huge brickwall, backed up by reinforced concrete, several ramparts and pillboxes with gun emplacements 

On 18th November 1915 my 3xG grandfather John McEwan died at Dennyloanhead in Stirlingshire. He had been born in Ireland as John McKeown but the spelling was changed when John and his wife moved to Scotland soon after the birth of their second son, Robert, my great great grandfather. His death certificate, signed by his son-in-law states his father as James McEwan. This caused me to search in vain until I found that his father was William McKeown, James was his grandfather. John's father was a farmer in the townland of Gortnaskea in the parish of Tullyniskan or Tullanisken in County Tyrone and John married my 3xG grandmother Matilda Skelton there in 1862 when he was 18. I think John's last year of life must have been hard. His eldest sons, William and Robert had emigrated to Pennsylvania and Indiana. His wife of 52 years had died the year before, the same year he lost two of his grandsons, two of the three sons of my GG grandfather, during the first few months of WWI. His death certificate says senility but I wonder if he just lost the will to live.

[Nanna52]

Nov 19th
On this day in 1860 my 3X great aunt and uncle Grace Ellis and David Williams married at the house of my 2X great grandparents, Owen and Margaret Williams in Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia. 
In 2003, One hundred and forty-three years later, my great uncle Owen Ellis Vincent died in Bairnsdale at the age of 97 years.

[Keith Sherwood]

19th November, 1658

"...but because there was an oath to be taken of fidelity to the Government as now constituted without a King, I got to be excused and returned home."

Evelyn

19th November, 1750

"Orthography, in the true sense of the word, is so absolutely necessary for a man of letters or a gentleman, that one false spelling may fix a ridicule upon him for the rest of his life."

Lord Chesterfield, to his son.

[nanny jan]

Not an ancestral anniversary but............my youngest grandchild is 2 today and there's going to be a party with cake on Sunday. 

[Keith Sherwood]

...and my Mum is 88 years young today...
keith