On This Day in NOVEMBER .....

[genjen]

November 18th 1846, James Daniel, born Cruden, Aberdeenshire. My g.g.great uncle.

November 18th 1923, George Raitt died, Paradise Cottage, Moneymusk, Aberdeenshire. Another g.g.great uncle.

[Deb D]

18/11/1832, Mary Korff born in Kirkley, Suffolk, daughter of John Korff and his wife Mary Gordon.  Mary Gordon was the sister of my gt gt gt grandmother Elizabeth, second wife of surgeon Christopher Tatham.  Not 100% sure, but I suspect this John Korff is the sea captain that Coffs Harbour was named after (with incorrect spelling, obviously!).  This daughter, Mary, died of scarlet fever in 1840, aged just 8, aboard the "Louisa Campbell".

[terry h]

No close ones today.

James Haliburton b 18/11/1869 Arngast, Fife d 07/09/1956 Napier NZ 2nd cousin 3 x removed

James & Agnes Haliburton nee Haining m 18/11/1864 Orwell Kinross,  James is 1st cousin 4 x removed.

Alexander & Margaret Falconer nee Clarkson m 18/11/1832 West Calder, West Lothian....both died Bayfield Ontario. Alexander 1st cousin 5 x removed.

Jane Hastie c 18/11/1841 Duns Berwickshire 2nd cousin 4 x removed.

[Lydart]

Sorry .... two days late.

Thomas Vincent, born 16th Nov. 1740 in Minty, Wiltshire.    His Grandfather, John Vencent, was married to Susanna Heale (or Hull) on 3 November, 1695 .... so one of my earliest ones.   I'm still searching for more details of this distant branch of my ancestry ... but not very interesting so far, as they are just names at the moment .... I like to find the flesh on the bones ! 

[GrahamSimons]

Only a day late...

Rev John Jaffray, Minister in Dunbar, married Isabella Lucas in Dunbar on 17th November 1824.

John was my great-great-great-uncle.

Their daughter, Janet Smart Jaffray, born 1834 and died 1907, died intestate, and the legal case following her death provided a hugely important key to unlocking my Jaffray family.

[genjen]

My Jaffrays are from Aberdeenshire. Don't suppose yours go that far north do they?

[GrahamSimons]

No, I'm pretty convinced "my" Jaffrays are all very much Stirling area. Most were small tenant farmers, nailers or smiths. Plenty of 19th century emigration to Canada, NZ, Australia and, at least temporarily, to US and South Africa. More frustrating is that a genealogy published in the 1920s is widely held to be strewn with errors.

[genjen]

Shame. It would be really great if people started making connections through the sharing of BMDs on here.

I'd never come across the name Jaffray until I started researching my family. It would appear to be more common than I originally thought.

[GrahamSimons]

Robert Jaffray, my great-great uncle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jaffray - and all from very humble roots.