On This Day in NOVEMBER .....

[genjen]

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

Coo, there's posh for you!

Mine were, I suspect, even more humbly rooted and to the best of my knowledge, never moved away from where they started out.

[panda40]

If my Dad was still with us it would have been his birthday today 18th November.
Regards panda

[Lydart]

I'll be out tomorrow, so can I record my grandson Sean, aged nine tomorrow .... and was delivered by his aunt (the one who lives in the village near me) whose birthday is the day after, the 20th !!   She's a bit older than nine !

[nanny jan]

Today is the 1st birthday of my youngest grandchild, Heath, who was born at home; just like his big sisters.   

[LizzieW]

Very quiet in my tree today.  I can only find two distant ancestors and one husband of a distant ancestor.

My half first cousin once removed's husband was born in 1898.  The half comes from the fact that my g.gran had two families so my gran had a half sister from whom this half first cousin once removed was descended.

My 4 x g.g.aunt married in 1795

My 1st cousin 6 times removed was buried in 1830.

Lizzie

[terry h]

My 6g grandparents Thomas and Elizabeth Galbraith nee Thieffie m 19/11/1731 Oldhamstocks, Berwickshire (I have 9 variations of Elizabeths maiden name...this one appeared on the OPR marriage)

My 4 g Uncle Walter Cunningham m 2nd wife Jane Thomson at 26 Maitland Street, Glasgow 19/11/1866.

2nd cousin twice removed Josiah (living) b 19/11/1999 Nanaimo, Vancouver.

[terry h]

Lizzie, I just noticed you had Gilchrist in your family, my Gilchrists were in the Stobo /Peeblesshire area my 5 g grandparents were Peter/Agnes Gilchrist nee Denham. Any connection?

I also did my friends tree as a 40th birthday pressie, her mother was a Gilchrist and her lot moved down through from Lanarkshire  to Peeblesshire to Berwickshire

Added,  her 4 g's were Robert Gilchrist and Mary Gillespie, Wiston and Roberton, Lanarkshire

[genjen]

A blank day for me today. My Family Tree programme doesn't seem to do a calendar which tells me what happened day by day. So I have bought myself a really cheap diary and when I have time  I shall do it all myself, by trawling through the whole lot and making notes of all BMDs.

Then, if I have even more spare time, I shall look at other notable dates, like when my great grandfather became a master mariner, and the day he took part in a massive sea rescue. Oh, and the dates of the Quarter Sessions when my gggrandmother was sent to prison.

 

[Suffolk Mawther]

My grandfather Thomas Murray was born on the 19th November 1896. 
He served with the RNAS as a mechanic on airfields in northern France throughout WWI.
He lived to the age of 96.

Pat ...