On This Day in NOVEMBER .....

[nanny jan]

2 birthdays today:

My 2xgt. aunt Rebecca Burgess born in 1864 in London;  daughter of Robert Richard and Elizabeth (nee Gandy). I can trace Rebecca up to 1881 census where she is living with her widowed mother and siblings.  There's a possible marriage for her the following year and a death in 1904 but I've not confirmed it with certs.

A 2xgt.aunt, Isabella Barham, born in 1836 in London;  daughter of Francis and Isabella (nee Bailey). Isabella was baptised in January 1837 at St. Giles, Cripplegate.  She married Samuel Read in 1861 at St James, Shoreditch and I've found 5 children for them.  I think Isabella died in 1887 but haven't got the cert to confirm.

[genjen]

Viktoria - what a sad story from you about your mother. Medical care was so different then wasn't it?

5th November 1881, my 3 x great-grandmother, Margaret Shaw ( nee Forsyth), died in Nairn.

5th November 1886, my great-uncle, Ernest Cooper Smith, was born in Middlesbrough. The son of John Smith and Harriet Knight. His mother died when he was still very young and by the 1901 census he was in the Industrial School in Middlesbrough. A musician and a career soldier, he married a young woman from Sheffield and had a daughter, born in 1914. Having completed his term of service, he was in the process of leaving the army when war was declared. He re-joined and his story is completed in a few days time........
Through the powers of Rootschat, his grand-daughter and I have now made contact and met a couple of times, which is an absolute joy. Thanks RC!

[aspin]

On this day November 5th Margaret Lyall was born in 1886 Illinois
Daughter to James and Jane Lyall who had emigrated to America from Edzill Angus Scotland
others in the family were James born in Edzill1884 ,..... John and Jenny or (Fanny)born Illinois
Margaret married Charles Karleskind ,I have not searched the rest of the family

I did a search for Margaret some years ago here on Rootschat but got no further with this family
although I was given an address and wrote to it I got no reply ,not even my letter was re-posted back to me

Elizabeth
 

[janan]

My lovely grandfather Fredrick Farr was born in Luton 5th Nov 1894. He lived nearly all of his life within half mile of where he was born, served in the army in WW1 Ypres area where he was severely wounded in the right arm and died age 91 in Luton February 1986. His elder sister Violet May was also born on 5th Nov in 1890 and his great grandfather John Farr was buried in Luton 5th Nov 1848  aged 58.

Jan

[quest40]

I am finding most of my anniversaries in November are deaths.  Two more today.
On 5 November
In 1702 my 8 x great grandfather Joseph Bletsoe died in Ravensden, Bedfordshire, aged 55.  He is a recent discovery of mine, thanks to another researcher.
In 1927 my great grandmother Louisa Conquest, nee Crowsley, died in Montreal, Canada, aged 85. Because I wasn't sure whether she had died in Canada or had returned to the UK, I had given up hope of finding her death, but then the Drouin records became available on Ancestry a couple of years ago, and lo and behold a new search came up trumps!  That certainly made my day!

[sugarbakers]

5 Nov 1926 ... my grandmother Martha Ann Mawer (née Softley) died aged 49 at 10 Sidmouth St, Hull.

She had been born in Hull, the daughter of Norfolk folk John & Rebecca Softley.

[LizzieW]

Viktoria - I really felt for you when I read the story about your mother, especially when you think of the treatments available nowadays.

Lizzie

[LizzieW]

I had so many for 5 November that I'm only showing my direct ancestors (and one descendant!)

My youngest son and his wife celebrate their 8th wedding anniversary today.

Benjamin Bagshaw and Sara Lindley my 6 x g.grandparents married at St John the Baptist Church, Penistone, Yorkshire in 1705

Samuel Pemberton my 3 x g.grandfather was baptised at St Oswald’s Church, Lower Peover, Cheshire in 1786

Thomas Tubbs and Ann Wyles my 5 x g.grandparents married in Sutton, Isle of Ely, Cambridgshire in 1753

Clement Tubbs my 4 x g.grandfather and son of Thomas Tubbs and Ann Wyles above was baptised at Holy Trinity Church, Haddenham, Cambridgeshire in 1762

[Viktoria]

 How lovely it is that you are all remembering ,we family history researchers do keep the memories of people ,even from very far back alive, if only for a few moments.
 Others do too of course.
 Let`s think of EVERYONE who has gone, whenever it was, whether we knew them or not .
At one time or another most of them would have been loved and mourned .Then we have to  remember the unloved-or perhaps loved- but desperation made someone abandon them. Poor souls.
I wonder if my lot will remember me? Viktoria.