On this day in JANUARY ...

[Lydart]

It is a nice photo, isn't it .... and I found it being used as 'padding' in a frame behind another photo of my aunt !!   

I was very grateful also to another RootsChatter with whom I was staying    when I went to the Dorset Records and got the inquest report !

[genjen]

.......I have a Smith line.   

Just the one?

[nanny jan]

.......I have a Smith line.   

Just the one?

One "main" one but a couple of others marrying in to side shoots.

[Seoras]

On this day in 1917 a memorandum from the War Office was sent to the officer in charge of infantry records in Perth, Scotland informing them that the effects and personal belongings of the late Private Alexander McEwan of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders should be sent to his sister,my great grandmother.He had been killed in action in October 1914 aged 23.His elder brother Samuel was killed two months previously during the retreat from Mons and third brother John was missing in action.

[stonechat]

Jane Cock, my great great Aunt was born this day in 1803 in Denton, Lancashire

[terry h]

5g grandparents James Brunton & Janet Wilson m 10/01/1793 Innerleithen, Peeblesshire.

1st Cousin 4 x R Janet redpath b 10/01/1847 Chirnside, Berwickshire, daughter of Robert &Elizabeth Redpath nee Hastie. The family emigrated to the US shortly after this time.

1st Cousin 3 x R Alexander Redpath Cowe b 10/01/1865 Sprouston, Roxburghshire, son of William & Catherine Cowe nee Brydon.

Last but most definately not least my youngest son.

[genjen]

I missed yesterday!

9th January 1792, Hannah Cant was baptised in Southminster, Essex, daughter of James Cant and Hannah Duck. She was my 4 x great grandmother, who complicated my research by marrying George Cant, presumably a cousin of some sort. Unfortunately, I haven't found anything about his parents so just how George and Hannah were related prior to their marriage remains a mystery at the moment. If what I have found is correct, Hannah gave birth to at least thirteen children, poor woman.


9th January 1891, Elsie Hardie Raitt was born in Peterculter, Aberdeenshire. A first cousin 3 x removed, daughter of Alexander Raitt and Isabella Hardie.

I have nothing for today.

[Spidermonkey]

I missed yesterday too  In 1928, the sister of my great great grandad died.  Annie Cleland Davie was born in 1849 in Glasgow.  She never married and remained living on the family farm in Old Monkland.

[nanny jan]

My gt. aunt Tilly, Matilda Barham, was born in 1875 in Holborn, London;  daughter of George William and Elizabeth Mary Ann  (nee Burgess).  Matilda married in 1894, had four children and almost reached her century, dying in 1974 just a few months short of her birthday. On 1901 census she is mis-transcribed as "Moubilou".