On This Day in NOVEMBER .....

[nanny jan]

She gave it a good run.......never was one for giving up.

[Keith Sherwood]

"No architect goes on well who has a careless employer."

Miss Arbuthnot, on the Duke of Wellington and Wyatt, 16th November 1828

[Seoras]

On 15th November 1890, my 4xG grandmother Hannah Bingham died at Rothsay on the Isle of Bute. The name Hannah passed down on my paternal side through my GG grandmother, my grandmother, my sister and on to one of my nieces. Hannah was born in Ireland, the daughter of a farmer, James Bingham and his wife Mary Clark. She and her first 4 siblings were all born in Ireland. Her brother John was born there in 1850 but they all appear on the 1851 Scottish census, giving me a pretty accurate date for when the family moved to Scotland. She was married to Thomas McCreary, himself a farmer's son and their first four children, Thomas, James, Margaret and Mary, were named after the four grandparents. Mary, named after her maternal grandmother,was my 3xG grandmother.

On 16th November 1827 my 3xG grandparents William Brown and Elisabeth Scott married in the parish of Kilconquhar, Fife. Their first born, Rachel, my GG grandmother, named after her maternal grandmother, and only daughter from five children was born in Earlsferry, Fife the following year.

On 16th November 1788, Thomas Downs was Christened in Bo'ness. Thomas was the son of my 4xG grandparents Henry Downs and Janet Richardson and the brother of my 3xG grandmother Jane.

[LizzieW]

16 November
William Taylor my 2nd cousin 3 times removed married Sarah Clarke in Warrington, Lancashire in 1857

Richard Taylor father of William above and my 1st cousin 4 times removed was baptised in Middlewich, Cheshire in 1794

Elizabeth Gill (formerly Tatham, nee Pemberton) my g.g.aunt was baptised at St Laurence Church, Frodsham, Cheshire in 1834

John Hobson my 2 x g.g.uncle died in Denby Dale, Yorkshire in 1876

Elizabeth (Betty) Whittaker (nee Moors) my husband’s 2 x g.grandmother died at 10 Castle Street, Leeds, Yorkshire in 1872.  As most of her family lived in Denton, Lancashire she was brought back there to be buried.

[quest40]

On 16 November 1797 my 5 x great grandmother, Mary Burroway, died in Kempston, Bedfordshire, aged 54.  Her husband Samuel Crowsley had died the previous year.

[Seoras]

On 17th November 1805, less than a month after the Battle of Trafalgar, my 3xG grandfather George Wardlaw was born in Hermiston in the parish of Currie. George was the youngest of four boys and the names of his grandfather and great grandfather had already been used. He was given the name of his great great grandfather. I wonder if his parents knew this however, I think it was perhaps more that the name was a family name. His father, grandfather and great grandfather all had brothers named George. George was the son of Peter Wardlaw and Agnes Wallace. George had a somewhat tragic life. Two of his four children died young, his only daughter while giving birth to her first child. His wife too died young and George himself ended his days in Motherwell poorhouse.

On 17th November 1942, My great grandfather, George Wardlaw died in a house a few hundred yards away from the one I would be born in. How I wish that house was still there but it is now just a bare patch of earth by the river in a small Scottish village. My grandparents married in the same building. George was the eldest son of Peter Wardlaw and Janet Brown and was born only three months after their marriage. One of his sons was a George as were two of his grandsons and so of course is one of his great grandsons, me.

[Wiggy]

    The making of George!   

[Seoras]

I think it was inevitable Wiggy  . I did worry that it had a toadying up to Hanoverian connections but have traced it back to at least Stuart times, so I'm OK with it now. 

[Keith Sherwood]

"I made some very doleful reflections today on the calamities of this century and find myself very much to pity of being born in such cruel and troublesome times."

Betsy Wynne (on The French Revolution) 17th November 1793