On This Day in NOVEMBER .....

[Wiggy]

On this day in 1914 my late, beloved father was born! 

[Lydart]

Twenty years ago to the day, my uncle Jack died.  He received his call up papers to fight in WW2 on his 21st birthday.  He was a soft, gentle man, totally unsuited to barrack life and the rigours of war, but despite bullying and the things he had to train to do, he survived, with the help of Toc H at Talbot House, Poperinge, Belgium.   He remained a supporter of Toc H all his life, for it had saved his sanity, as it did so many other soldiers.

[terry h]

1st Cousin 5 x removed Helen Spark chr 29/11/1830 Coldingham, Berwickshire, daughter of Alexander & Helen Spark nee Falconer.

4g Aunt Alison Cochrane m Alexander Wright 29/11/1847 Biggar Lanarkshire daughter of David & Christina Cochrane nee Bookless (or Bouglas)

2nd Cousin 4 x removed Philip Hastie Bell b29/11/1851 Horsley Coldingham, Berwickshire, son of James & Christian Bell nee Hastie.

[genjen]

Today I have:

1674, Robart Jackson, my 8 x times great uncle was baptised in the parish of Brough under Stainmore, Westmorland. ( He is listed as both Robart and Robert in various places but his baptism has him as the former so that's the way he stays in my mind)

1808, Jane Hauxwell, is cousin, five times removed, was baptised in Spennithorne, North Riding of Yorkshire.

1886 Hector Barr, secon cousin twice removed, was born in Wivenhoe, Essex

1904. My 2 x great grandfather, James Bland, died in Bedale Union Workhouse. I felt so sorry for him when I found this because I knew that he still had living relatives so thought perhaps he needn't have been in the workhouse. Then,  approximately thirty-five years later, his daughter ( my great grandmother) met the same fate in Darlington. I felt it was justice! But who am I to judge what happened over a hundred years ago? Who knows what their circumstances might have been or, indeed, what sort of man he was. I really must stop using today's standards when I consider my ancestors.

[GrahamSimons]

The Times of 1st December 1847: On Monday last, 29th ult, at Kennington Church by the Rev George Greig MA, Charles Andrews of Daywell in the County of Salop, and of Upper Bedford Place, Russell-square, London, youngest and only surviving son of the late Thomas Robert Andrews, Esq, to Phoebe second daughter of the late William Vazie Simons Esq., and sister to William Simons of Green-hall, Carmarthenshire, Esq and grand-daughter of the late Joseph Simons of Chester le Street, Durham.

Phoebe was my great-great aunt. Her niece, also Phoebe, wrote of the family:

Phoebe married Charles Andrews , a Freeman of the City of London  and a member of a big Scot family. They were spendthrifts of the first order, and he liquidated the casket of the Freedom but kept the parchment, and they got through three fortunes. He became insane, and Phoebe refused to put him in an asylum unless they’d take her too to look after him. She used to shave him every day, with a maid standing by holding the key in the lock of a drawer. Andrews would grab at the razor, Phoebe threw it in the drawer, maid locked it and ran away.

The marriage was childless; Charles died in 1875 and Phoebe in 1882.

[genjen]

Phoebe married Charles Andrews , a Freeman of the City of London  and a member of a big Scot family. They were spendthrifts of the first order, and he liquidated the casket of the Freedom but kept the parchment, and they got through three fortunes. He became insane, and Phoebe refused to put him in an asylum unless they’d take her too to look after him. She used to shave him every day, with a maid standing by holding the key in the lock of a drawer. Andrews would grab at the razor, Phoebe threw it in the drawer, maid locked it and ran away.

The marriage was childless; Charles died in 1875 and Phoebe in 1882.

I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry at this story but it is one of those which really makes researching family history worthwhile.

[LizzieW]

I forgot to post yesterday, so I'll do 28 & 29 November now.

28 November
William Bagshaw  my 6 x g.g.uncle was baptised in 1672 in Bradfield, Yorkshire and Benjamin Bagshaw my 6 x g.grandfather was baptised 1678 in Bradfield, Yorkshire. William and Benjamin were brothers.  William was the eldest of 9 children, 7 of whom were boys.  It was not until they got to children numbers 8 and 9 that the parents produced girls.

Charles Collett my 3 x g.g uncle was baptised in 1760 in Stradbroke, Suffolk

William Dyke my OH’s 4 x g.great uncle was baptised 1762 in Hatton, Warwickshire.

Sarah Woodward my 3 x g.g.aunt was baptised in Frodsham, Cheshire in 1769

John Chorley & Dorothy Gardner my 4 x g.grandparents married in 1805.  He was 60 when he married and probably a widower with adult children, she was a spinster aged 35.  He died 11 years later.

Herbert Bailey & Edith Alden married in 1915.  Edith who was my half 1st cousin once removed, was the illegitimate daughter of my g.gran’s eldest daughter from her first marriage.  She was born a year after my gran and lived with my gran, her parents and siblings more like a sister than my gran’s half niece.   Her husband died on 10 November 1918 from a gunshot wound to the head, which is very sad so near to the end of WWI.  Edith never married again and lived with her widowed mother, whose husband had committed suicide by hanging in 1910.  Her mother died in 1954 when Edith (known as Aunt Edie) was 69 and then, as far as I know, she lived alone until she died in 1970 aged 85.  This is another relationship that seems a bit distant, but I did meet Aunt Edie and her mother Aunt Vinnie (as we knew them) on a couple of occasions.

Richard Taylor & Hannah Pemberton married in 1818.  Hannah was my 1st cousin 4 times removed.

Agnes Postlethwaite my 5 x g.g.aunt died in 1726.  She was only 7 months old


Lizzie

[LizzieW]

29 November
Thomas Hobson my 2 x g.g.uncle was born in Denby, Yorkshire 1815

Elizabeth Martha Brand my g.g.aunt was born in Christchurch, Southwark, Surrey in 1850 and died aged 18 months from Pneumonia and Diarrhoea.

Walter Benson my grandfather was born in Hull in 1885.  Some Rootschatters may remember he was the person who was an oboe player and musical director for the BBC in Aberdeen and was killed in a motorcycle accident in 1926 aged 41, leaving a wife and 6 children.

Harold Catlow  my OH’s first cousin once removed was born in 1911

George Dyke my OH’s 4 x g.g.uncle was born in 1779

Francis Chapman Cawthorn my 3 x g.grandmother died in Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire in 1890

Oops missed a couple.

Harriet Hobson my first cousin twice removed died 1949.  It seems a distant relationship when it’s just written down, but she was my maternal gran’s cousin and even though I don’t remember whether I met her or not, my mother often talked about her.

Elizabeth Barrand this is my 3 x g.grandmother who died 2 days earlier in New Sleaford.  She was buried in 1842 in St Denys Parish Church, Sleaford.


A side benefit of doing this exercise is that where possible, I am writing potted histories of my ancestors to add to their record on my tree, rather than just having the bare facts.

[terry h]

4g Uncle John Watson b 30/11/1792 at Melrose, Roxburghshire, son of John Watson & Katherine Lees.

1st Cousin 1 x removed 'Living' Hastie b 30/11/1946 at Kelso, Roxburghshire.

Samuel & Janet Virtue nee Wilson m 30/11/1821 at Edrom Berwickshire, parents in law of my 1st cousin 5 x removed Alexander Bell Hastie who married Georgina Virtue their daughter.