On This Day in NOVEMBER .....

[Hampshire Lass]

20th November 1884, the day my great granny died, at the age of 22  .....

2 weeks after she gave birth to my granny and her twin sister.

She died of phthisis and exhaustion.

[Deb D]

21/11/1876, Christopher Tatham (one of many!) son of Christopher Tatham and his wife Julia Mackwood, born in Clapham Park, Surrey.  A year later, his father died ... Christopher Sr was the brother of my 2xgt grandfather.

21/11/1834, Catherine Ferrier Masson, daughter of John Masson and his wife Margaret Dunbar, baptised at St Alphage, Greenwich.  Margaret Dunbar was one of the sisters of Duncan Dunbar II, the shipping magnate.

21/11/1907 - Charles Joseph Sing Hee, son of George Sing Hee and his wife Marion Powell, born in Surry Hills NSW.  Marion was the sister of my gt grandad.

[terry h]

3g Uncle Benjamin Chisholm,  b 21/11/1838 Earlston, Berwickshire.

[LizzieW]

Baptised  in 1742 my 5 x g.g.aunt

Death in1933  my great aunt
Death in 1988 my 3rd cousin once removed

Buried in 1872 my husband’s 2 x g.grandmother

[genjen]

Amelia Alice Smith, known to friends and family as Cissy, died 21/11/1945 in Middlesbrough. My maternal grandmother. Died six years before I was born but I sometimes feel really close to her. This photograph looks like both of my daughters.

[Deb D]

Died 23/11/1867, Glebe NSW, my gt gt grandfather's first wife Emily Carter.  She had been baptised in Parramatta on the 24/11/1839, the daughter of Ambrose Carter and his wife Catherine Sewell.

Died 23/11/1908 at Lumphinnans No. 11 Pit, Ballingry, Fife, ... my gt grandfather Alexander Kinnear, coal miner - still no proof either way whether he just got in the way of the rail car, or whether he leapt in front of it.  His estranged wife had sailed to Australia in August of that year.

[LizzieW]

A good day for marriages in my family:

1754 – 4 x g.grandparents
1767 – 5 x g.grandparents
1820 – 3 x g.grandparents
1856 – 2 x g.grandparents

and baptisms
1775 – 3 x g.grandfather
1807 – my OH’s 2 x g.g.aunt
1813 – my OH’s 2 x g.grandmother
1819 – my OH’s 2 x g.g.aunt

[GrahamSimons]

This thread brings up all sorts of coincidences:

22 November 1835 my great-grandmother Margaret Jaffray born in Bannockburn
22 November 1860 her brother Robert Jaffray married Sarah Bugg in Toronto
22 November 1869 my great-great grandmother Mary Evans, born Mary Richards, died in Oxford aged 78

[terry h]

Wife of my 5g Uncle, Mary Falconer nee Miller b 22/11/1793.

My 3g grandfather Robert Johnstone Borthwick b 22/11/1801 Kirkmichael, Dumfriesshire, son of William & Janet Borthwick nee Johnstone.

1st cousin 5 x removed Borthwick Haliburton m Isabella Lowe 22/11/1886....Borthwick was b in Orwell, Kinross, Scotland and died in Matamau, NZ.

'Living' Houghton 6th cousin 1 x removed b 22/11/1989, England

'Living' Hastie  1st cousin 1 x removed b 22/11/1996 Scotland