On This Day in NOVEMBER .....

[quest40]

On 2 November 1607 my 8 x great grandfather William Ashwell was baptised at Langford, Bedfordshire.  He was the son of William and Susannah.

[Seoras]

On 3rd November 1852, William Brown married Helen Sunter in Kilconquhar parish in Fife. Willam was the eldest son of William Brown and Elisabeth Scott, my 3xG grandparents and the brother of my great great grandmother Rachel. William and Helen's births are registered just a few lines apart in 1829 and lived on the same street in the tiny coastal village of Earlsferry and so, I think, would have known each other their whole lives. William, like his father and grandfather before him (both William Browns) was a mariner.

[LizzieW]

3 Nov
Ethelinda Cockett (nee Wheeldon) my aunt, known as Aunty Linda, died in Blackpool on 3 November 1993.  In 1960, I went to Blackpool with my boyfriend (now husband) and his parents for Christmas.  Whilst there I went to visit my aunt, uncle and cousins and my aunt decided I looked a bit ‘peaky’ so she gave me Sanatogen Tonic Wine.  I had no idea it was actually an alcoholic drink (we were quite innocent in those days) so quite happily drank about half a tumbler full.  I found out later it is about 15% proof, no wonder I felt a bit squiffy afterwards. 

Elizabeth Gilchrist my 3 x g.g.aunt was buried at St Botolph’s Church, Boston in  1818.  She was just turned 2 years old.

[sugarbakers]

4 Nov 1894 ... my grandfather Henry William Almeroth was born at 46a Swaton Road, Bromley ... just 3 days after his future wife (#148).

Second child of Cornelius James Almeroth & Frances Maria Armitage, he became merchant's clerk to Mr Reichardt of J L Lyon, Crutched Friars, London, after serving in Salonika in WW1. He died 1964 at Sheringham, Norfolk.

[nanny jan]

Born today in London in 1814, my 3xgt.aunt Eliza Bailey;  daughter of James and Hamutal (nee Page).  Eliza was baptised the following month at St. Luke, Old Street.  I can find her living with her family on a few census records and then.......too many Eliza Baileys to be certain.

[quest40]

On 4 November 1770 my 4 x great grandparents Esther Jackson and Joseph Sewell were married at Brough under Stainmore, Westmorland.

[LizzieW]

John Francke my 9 x g.g.uncle was baptised at St John the Baptist Church, Morton by Bourne, Lincolnshire in 1593.  The child born before him in 1590 was also baptised as John, so I assume he probably died, although I haven’t searched for a burial.  The family had 12 children, including twin girls who died aged 5 and 6 days old respectively, 3 girls called Elizabeth including one of the twins, the second Elizabeth also must have died.

John Pemberton my g.uncle who died on 1 November at Queens Road, Manchester was buried at Kingsley Parish Church, Kingsley, Cheshire in 1868.  He was 23 and the cause of his death was Rheumatic Fever and Inflammation of Kidneys 2 days.  I can’t help but think it might have been healthier for him to stay in Cheshire where he was born.

Matthew Heaton my husband’s 2 x g.grandfather was buried in Philips Park Cemetery, Manchester in 1880.  I found his burial when searching for someone else but haven’t bought his death certificate yet to find out the cause of his death.

[genjen]

One from yesterday -
3rd November 1959, my great grandfather, Peter Grant Raitt, died in Stonehaven. I vaguely remember this happening. Having never met him, his death didn't affect the child version of me very much. But I always wished that I had known him - there was something about his name which appealed to me!

4th November 1681, Edmund Lonsdale married Margaret Robinson in Grinton. My 8 x great grandparents.

1932 - another great grandfather, Clarence Samuel Howe, died in Aberdeen.

1979 - Albert Lynn died in Ontario - a 2nd cousin x1

[Viktoria]

On Monday November 4th 1957   my mother went into hospital following a heart attack at home a week before. She had been in bed a week nursed by me but I knew she needed more  than I could do as I had a new baby and was tied as I fed him myself.
 The following night was bonfire night and I decided I`d better stay at home in case the baby was upset by all the bangs etc. at next door`s bonfire. My O.H. had a  meeting he needed to attend so I stayed at home .
I did not therfore  see mum in hospital as babies were not allowed in.( I was going on Nov 6th when my O.H was able to stay with our baby.)
 However the next morning a telegram came to say she had died.
 She was only 61 and when I think of the wonderful care I had even with a late diagnosed heart attack( 4 days after the event!) I boil remembering the neglect. No oxygen, no blood thinning tablets , no Beta blockers or whatever else she could have today and possibly even then.
 I think what if I  had done more  but other than that  she needed complete bed rest the G.P. gave no specific instructions.  She got pneumonia and  I insisted she be admitted. It was difficult to get a hospital bed in those days but she ought really to have been admitted the day she was first ill.
 The funeral was Nov 11th so that day is doubly sad for me. The baby is now 56 and how proud she would have been of him , and  his brother and sister both of course she never knew.
 She`d have been amazed that after 57 years I`m still marrried because she thought I was far too young even though she liked my fiancee very much. ( She was 38 when she married) It was his mother who persuaded her  we`d be O.K. She was born over 117 years ago. What tales she told me of those days so long ago. I wish she had known my children.
 I`ve got flowers in for her, ashes scattered so no  grave. I`ll go and have a quick sniff of her perfume bottle which still has a faint lingering perfume which is "her" -Oppoponax --on Wednesday.
                                                Viktoria.