On this day in JANUARY ...

[terry h]

3g Aunt Mary Baptie b 04/01/1844 Hobkirk, Roxburghshire, daughter of James & Cecile Baptie nee Buckham.

1st Cousin 2 x R Margaret Fairbairn Young b 04/01/1864 Hawick, Roxburghshire daughter of William & Margaret Young nee Fairbairn. A second Margaret Fairbairn Young was born 5 years later the first having died young.

[lazydaisy]

 

... my grandfather Mark I S Bevan was born in Pontypridd in 1877


Diane

[GrahamSimons]

My two great-great aunts died on the same day, 4th January 1842.

The Cambrian of 22nd January 1842 reported the funeral:

In a former paper we mentioned the deaths, within hours of each other, at the respective ages of 20 and 17 years, of Emma and Sarah Evans, the eldest daughters of John Evans Esq., foreman manager of the Dowlais Iron Company. They were consigned to the "house appointed for all living" on Saturday the 8th instant, amidst the sympathy of a very numerous and highly respectable assemblage on that mournful occasion. It was, indeed, a scene of deep sorrow. The extreme affliction of the worthy mother, almost sank, also to the grave by long days and nights of intense watching around the beds of sickness and of death; and the anguish-wrung ejaculation Oh! My daughters! of the grieved father, over the grave as they were laid, side by side, in their last earthly abode, excited unusual sympathy. "I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me," said the chastened King of Israel, when at the death of his son, he dried his, then, unavailing tears and sought consolation. The operations of the works were suspended, in respectful regard, during the funeral.

[groom]

That is so sad, Graham. Have you found out what was the cause of their deaths?

[Seoras]

January 4th 1891, my great great grandmother's eldest brother George Peat, husband of Isabella Latimer died in Linlithgow aged 78.

[stonechat]

None in my tree, but my wife's son and grandson (9 today) were born today

[nanny jan]

Two today:

3xgt. aunt Caroline Hutcheson Pain born 1832, in Woolwich;  daughter of John and Elizabeth. Sadly Caroline died in 1838 and was buried in St. Mary Magdalene, Woolwich.

Susan Burgess, my 2xgt aunt, born 1851 in London, daughter of Robert Richard and Elizabeth (nee Gandy). She married Robert Mears, a French Polisher, in Shoreditch in 1872 and died in 1899.

[Spidermonkey]

On this day in 1881, my 2xGt grandad Henry Wilson died in Old Monkland of enteric fever.  He left a wife and 6 children, all of whom were aged under 10

[Seoras]

On this day 5th January 1887, my great great great grandfather James Steen died in Strawberry Bank, Linlithgow aged 82. He had lived in Linlithgow his whole life and was a tanner, more than likely supplying leather to his son (my great great grandfather), brother-in-law and sons-in-law, who were all shoemakers. Most of his children were daughters and he had only two sons, James, named after his father and Henry, named after his wife's father. When his first wife Jane Downs, a baker's daughter from Bo'ness died he remarried to Margaret White. His youngest child Henry seems to have taken against this marriage and left to join the army and took part in the famous 'March to Kandahar'. The informant on his DC was his grandson James Downie, the son of his daughter Marion.