On This Day in NOVEMBER .....

[LizzieW]

19 November
It’s very quiet in my tree today.  I can only find three distant ancestors.

Luce Stanton, my 4 x g.g.aunt married Samuel Crosby in Lincolnshire in 1795

Elizabeth Uffindel my 6 x g.g.aunt was baptised at Holy Trinity Church, Haddenham, Cambridgeshire in 1694

John Goad my 1st cousin 6 times removed was buried in Aldingham, Lancashire in 1830.

[quest40]

On 19 November

In 1724 my 7 x great grandfather Richard Bletsoe died in Ravensden, Bedfordshire.

In 1852 my g.g uncle, William John Elliott, was born in Islington, London, second son of George Elliott and Elizabeth Mitchell.

In 1919 my g.g aunt, Rosalie Wilson, died in West Ham, Essex, aged 80.  I know she never married and in 1911 she was living in Leytonstone with her brother and sister in law, my great grandparents, Frederic and Clara.  She has been difficult to find on earlier censuses - she disappears after 1861!

[Keith Sherwood]

20th November 1820

"I can scarcely bid you goodbye in a letter.  I always made an awkward bow."

John Keats, to Browne, his last words in his last written letter...

[LizzieW]

On 20 November
Roger Postlethwaite my 4 x g.g.uncle was baptised at St Cuthbert’s Church, Kirkby Ireleth, Lancashire in 1762

William Myre my 7 x g.g.uncle was baptised at St Mary’s Church, Whicham, Cumberland in 1671

Elizabeth Francke my 9 x g.g.aunt was baptised  at St John the Baptist Church, Morton by Bourne, Lincolnshire in 1608

Eva Benson (nee Willis) my aunt died in Manchester in 1995.  She was 79

John Uffindel my 8 x g.grandfather was buried in Holy Trinity Church, Haddenham, Cambridgeshire in 1674.  He was 34.

[Countryquine]

Today in 1915 my Granny was 18, and married my 20-year old Granpa.   He went across to France with the Royal Artillery, but he was one of the lucky ones, and came back.   Granpa never spoke much about being in France, but how I wish I could ask him, and Granny, about their lives now!   I was a good little girl, and was seen and not heard, but I suppose they were of a generation who maintained a stiff upper lip, so much of what happened to them would have not been discussed anyway.  Remembering them both with love and admiration.

[quest40]

On 20 November 1871 my 2 x great grandmother, Mary Giovannelli (nee Kingham) died in Islington, London, aged 74.  I think she must have been a strong woman as she had ten children, starting in 1819 and finishing with my great grandmother Clara in 1843.  All but two of the children survived to adulthood, too.

[Keith Sherwood]

"Violent menaces and abuse never made any people flinch from their religious opinions, or abandon any line of conduct they might have adopted in relation to them."

C. Greville, 21st November 1850

[Seoras]

On 21st November 1749 my 5xG grandfather Walter Gibb was christened in Bo'ness. He had been born on the 17th and was the son of Alexander Gibb and Janet Snaddon (or Sneddon). He also married a Snaddon, Margaret and she was, I think, possibly a cousin. His daughter Janet Sneddon Gibb was my 4xG grandmother.

[LizzieW]

On 21 November
Mary Stanton my 5 x g.g.aunt was baptised at St Andrew’s Church, Rippingale in 1742.  She died in June 1746 aged 3½.  In August 1746 another baby daughter was baptised Mary.  Out of 8 children, the family lost 4 children, 3 soon after birth and Mary living until 3½. 

Helen Dalby my 6 x g.g.aunt was baptised at St Lawrence Church, Corringham, Lincolnshire in 1726.  Unfortunately she died aged 4.

Alice Ann Conway (nee Cockett ) my great aunt died  at 18 South View, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire in 1933.  The causes of her death were 1) Cardiac Degeneration and 2) Influenza.

Elizabeth Whittaker (nee Moors) known as Betty my husband’s 2 x g.grandmother was buried at St Lawrence Church, Denton in 1872.  She, her husband and youngest son were living in Leeds at the time of her death, but returned to Denton to bury her, where they stayed, as that was their home town.  The cause of her death was Haematemesis and diarrohoea.  Whether that meant she had a problem with her stomach or oesophagus I don’t know.  I have no idea why they went to Leeds, they all worked in the hat trade in Denton and carried on in the same trade after their move to Leeds.