On This Day in NOVEMBER .....

[Seoras]

On 22nd November 1854 my 4xG grandfather John Brown died in Corbiehall, Bo'ness. He was married to the above mentioned Janet Sneddon Gibb and both are buried in the Lower Wynd, Bo'ness alongside two of their sons and a daughter-in-law. John was a blacksmith, as was his son Walter, my 3xG grandfather.

[Keith Sherwood]

Two visionaries...

"Nothing can withstand the fury of my cause among the Stars of God and in the Abysses of the Accuser."

William Blake, to Butler.  22nd November 1802


"I am certain of nothing but of the holiness of the heart's affections - and the truth of Imagination.  What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth."

John Keats to Blake.  22nd November 1817

[LizzieW]

Just made it for today.  Just as I was about to post our weekend visitors arrived for lunch instead of mid afternoon so I had to stop what I was doing and go and find something for lunch.

22 November was a
A good day for marriages in my family:

1754 – Joseph Gaunt and Sarah Batty my 4 x g.grandparents married at St John the Baptist Church, Penistone, Yorkshire.
1767 – Jonathan Benson and Mary Skelton my 5 x g.grandparents married at Holme Cultram Abbey Church, Cumberland.
1820 – John Stanton and Frances Chapman Cawthorn my 3 x g.grandparents married at St Mary’s Church, Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire
1856 – John Benson and Elizabeth Middleton my 2 x g.grandparents married at The Parish Church, Dalton in Furness, Lancashire.  Interestingly Elizabeth Middleton is the g.granddaughter of Jonathan Benson above, whilst John Benson is no relation.

and baptisms
1775 – Thomas Hobson my 3 x g.grandfather was baptised at All Hallows Church, Almondbury, Yorkshire
1813 – Sarah Heaton (nee Legge) my OH’s 2 x g.grandmother was baptised at Trinity Church, Ely, Cambridgeshire.

and one burial
George Lockwood my 2 x g.g.uncle was buried at St Nicholas Church, Cumberworth, Yorkshire in 1832

[Keith Sherwood]

"I sometimes think it is most unfortunate, but it is quite true that except for my husband and his children I have no warm interest for any human being but the Duke."

Mrs Arbuthnot, 23rd November 1830

[Seoras]

As I sit here on 23rd November 2013 it is 150 years to the hour from the death of my 3xG grandmother, Jane Downs, in Linlithgow. She was the wife James Steen, a tanner and died from Pleurisy at their address on High Street. Her husband was present and made his mark and so I would think was illiterate. She was the daughter of Henry Downs, a baker from Bo'ness and his wife Janet Richardson. Her eldest son James, my great great grandfather, passed on her name to one of his daughters. His grandson, my grandfather, also a James, in turn gave the name to his youngest child, my mother.

[quest40]

On 23 November
In 1756 my 6 x great grandmother Mary Field died in Cardington, Bedfordshire, aged 66.
In 1960 my first cousin 1 x removed, Percy William Conquest, died in Gosport, Hampshire, aged 67.

[Keith Sherwood]

"The languid flame of life, which before burns feebly, glows at communication with that vivid spark of friendship."

Shelley, to Miss Hitchins, 24th November 1811

[Viktoria]

 On this day, November 24th 1914, Ada Pugh aged 28  died as the result of a tragic event.
 It was classed as manslaughter.

  Her baby daughter of only four hours old had died on November 16th , she , poor little lamb did not even have a name and was entered  as "Female  Pugh"
                                                                                                                      .

 The coffin bearing them both, baby in mother`s arms ,was carried shoulder high over rough terrain to a little , now lonely and disused chapel. No headstone ,just a low mound to the right of some family graves.
                                Viktoria.

[quest40]

On 24 November 1709 my 6 x great grandparents, Joseph Sewell and Ellinor Lowes, were married at Newbiggin, near Appleby, Westmorland.  Ellinor died six years later in 1715, aged only 28, while Joseph lived to the age of 80.