On This Day in NOVEMBER .....

[Keith Sherwood]

"But her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment."

Lord Byron to John Murray from Venice, 25th November 1816

[LizzieW]

Having had demanding visitors over the weekend, I’m a bit delayed with these BMDs.

23 Nov – Two that I didn’t list last year.
Robert Waller my 1st cousin 4 times removed married Mary Billings at St Mary & St Peter’s Church, Hull, Yorkshire in 1868

John Chorley my 4 x g.grandfather married Rebekah Banks in Cartmel, Lancashire in 1771.  Rebekah died in 1803 and in 1805 at the age of 60 John married my 4 x g.grandmother Dorothy Gardner who was a 30 year old spinster, in Ulverston, Dalton, Lancashire.  They had 3 daughters before John died in 1816.  In 1820 Dorothy had a son out of wedlock.

24 Nov – no direct ancestors today however

25 Nov – only 3 today apart from some very very distant ancestors.
Nicolas Smith and Ellinor Gardner my 6 x g.g.aunt and uncle married at Urswick in Furness, Lancashire in 1739

Abigail Tubbs my 2 x g.g.aunt was baptised at All Saints Church, Holbeach, Lincolnshire in 1819

Elizabeth Collett my 3 x g.g.aunt was buried at All Saints Church, Stradbroke, Suffolk in  1767

[quest40]

On 25 November 1860 my great aunt Ellen Elizabeth Marshall was baptised at Lewisham St Mary.  She was born a month earlier on 25 October, the eldest daughter of Robert Marshall and Mary Ann Baker.

[Keith Sherwood]

"I designe you for the University if you are fit for it, for I hope in God you will take to some honourable profession of your own accord, if not I am resolved you shal be of a meane one, for of some Profession, High or Low I will make you, for I abhor you should go sauntering up and down like an idle lazy fellow, and so God blesse you."

Edmund Verney, to his son, 26th November 1684

[LizzieW]

26 November – only one new one since last year

William Chamberlaine and Ellin Southwell my 11 x g.grandparents married at St Michael and All Angels Church, Edenham, Lincolnshire in 1561

[sugarbakers]

26 Nov 1858 ... Peter Mawer, former journeyman tailor and toll bar keeper, died aged 70 at Louth, Lincs.
It was his son Charles who took my Mawer line to Hull in the 1840s.

[Keith Sherwood]

"...and upon my desiring his Grace to give me his kind word to the Duke of York he told me he had reason to do so, for there had been nothing done in the Navy without me."

Samuel Pepys, 27th November 1665

"...and however your factors love to runne without mee, I will look out to mend their faults, and, like patient Job, pray and sacrifice for them, as he did for his sonnes while they banquetted."

Sir Thomas Roe, to Sir Thomas Smythe, President of the East India Company, 27th November 1616

[Seoras]

On 27th November 1892 my great grand uncle Alexander McEwan was born in Armadale, the third child of my great great grandparents Robert McEwan and Hannah Greer. Alex joined the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1912 and with his two brothers Samuel and John left for France in 1914. Only John would return, severely wounded. Private Alexander McEwan was killed in action on 21 October 1914 and is buried in plot F23 at Le Trou Aid Post, Fleurbaix. At the time of his death his father had already emigrated to the USA and his mother was living in the village I would be born in. Alex is commemorated on the war memorial there. He named as next of kin, his sister Tilda, my great grandmother. 

[LizzieW]

On 27 November
William Benson my 2 x g.g.uncle was baptised at St Mary’s Parish Church, Kirkby Ireleth, Lancashire in 1825

Ann Lockwood my 3 x g.g.aunt was buried in Cumberworth, Yorkshire in 1794.  She was one month short of her 5th birthday.

Elizabeth Hayes my 1st cousin 4 times removed was buried at St Laurence Church, Frodsham, Cheshire in 1846.  She was about 30.