On This Day in FEBRUARY ...

[aspin]

Book marking made mine out a day earlier
I enjoy reading this thread
Elizabeth

[GrahamSimons]

On 22nd February 1819 John Quincy Adams signed the agreement that Mexico would cede Florida to the United States.

I can only claim one "interesting" relative for this day, and he's only related by a couple of marriages so not a "real relative" - Teignmouth Melvill married Sarah Elizabeth Reed on 22nd February 1876 in Port Elizabeth. He was killed at Isandlhwana in 1879 and was awarded the VC for his part in attempting to save the Queen's colours - though the VC  was not awarded until 1907. The explanation being that the award of a posthumous VC was not possible in 1879.

[genjen]

Just one distant one today.

Baptised 1755, Edmund Favell, in Spennithorne, North Riding of Yorkshire. A 6 x great uncle.

[LizzieW]

Thomas Benson my 2 x g.g.uncle was baptised at St Mary’s Parish Church, Dalton in Furness, Lancashire.  Although his father was a farmer, Thomas became a miner – I guess it paid more, but he died aged 30 of TB.  Then again his father also died of TB some 10 years earlier.

Deborah Fleming my 6 x g.grandmother was baptised in Aldingham, Lancashire in 1691/92.  She had 7 children in 13 years and I suspect it was only the fact that my 6 x g.grandfather was a mariner and died 15 years after the marriage, that she didn’t have more.

Jonathan Spraggett my husband’s 3 x g.g.uncle was baptised in Leamington Hastings, Warwickshire in 1785.  His father was a farmer and a maltster.  He needed to be to keep the 15 children he and his wife produced, Jonathan being number 5.

Ann Woodward my 1st cousin 4 times removed was baptised in Frodsham, Cheshire in 1817.  Her father took over a public house called the Red Lion that was built by his parents in 1777.  It was an ancient alehouse that stood close to Norley Church.  Around 1830, the Woodhouses of Norley Hall purchased the land.  Various landlords ran the alehouse, until 1877 when it was passed by the Woodhouses to the Church Commissioners to use as the Vicarage!

Hannah Pemberton my g.aunt married Samuel Wilkinson at Manchester Cathedral in 1857.  One of Hannah’s sisters also married a Wilkinson, but as far as I can tell there was no connection between the two men.

John Harper Howard my husband’s 2 x g.g.uncle married Elizabeth Rice at St Nicholas Church, Liverpool, Lancashire in 1841.  John Harper Howard was the first son of his parents and Harper was his mother’s maiden name, whilst John was his paternal grandfather’s name.

[stonechat]

Dinah Jackson born today at Dodworth near Barnsley in 1869, she was the youngest child
Her father George was a mine manager in Dodworth and Carlton

When Diana only 5, her mother Sally died.
George remarried an unknown Ann.
George, having taken on the job at Carlton where he was responsible for starting the new mine on Lord Wharncliffe's land known as Carlton main, died in 1979.

By 1891, Stepmother Ann had disappeared and Dinah was living with her married sister Martha Andrews
A boarder in the same household was David Jones Williams, a commercial manager- colliery.

In 1892 Dinah and David married in Barnsley.

Dinah lived until 1933 and David 1938, they were living in the Sheffield area at that time

[nanny jan]

A gt.uncle, Albert Edward Howard, was born in 1902 in Battersea;  son of John and Ellen Mary Eliza (nee Viney).  He married Jane Richardson on Christmas Day 1912 at St. James Norlands, Kensington. I've not been able to confirm any children or his death.

[Geoff-E]

My little wire-haired terrier, Judy, would have been 60 today.

[LizzieW]

Christopher Haworth and Dorothy Mellor my husband’s 2 x g.grandparents married at Manchester Cathedral in 1843.  Both Christopher who was a warehouseman at the time of his marriage and Dorothy signed their own names, as did both witnesses, one of which was Dorothy’s father, also a labourer.  Christopher’s father was a printer so I guess is makes sense that he could write, but I’m surprised that a labourer and his child could write in 1843.  Christopher later became a Mercantile Clerk.  Dorothy, after having 9 children in 21 years, unfortunately died of a corroding ulcer of the rectum which she’d had for 5 years - which means it started soon after the birth of her last child – sounds very painful. 

John Day my 3 x g.grandfather was baptised at St Peter & St Paul, Osbournby, Lincolnshire in 1793.  As he died on 21 February, buried 25 February (1874), there is more info about him on those dates.

Mary Lockwood my 3 x g.g.aunt was baptised at Cumberworth, Yorkshire in 1788.  Originally her father was a joiner, like his father before him, however Mary’s grandfather became a licensed victualler and when he died, her father took over.  I thought most of my ancestors were butchers and bakers, but since joining in with “On this day” I’ve found that many of them were brewers or inn keepers.

Hannah Mutton (nee Hisbrook) my 4 x g.grandmother was buried at All Saints Church, Holbeach in 1804 I know my 4 x g.grandfather was born in 1747 but I think she must have been younger as she had two children, one in 1787 and one in 1790, but I can’t find a birth/baptism for her.  On the parish record of her banns and marriage, it states she was “of this parish” i.e. Spalding, but then it states the same for my 4 x g.grandfather and he was baptised in Crowland and their first child was baptised in Holbeach.

Mary Benson my 6 x g.g.aunt was buried in Holme Cultram, Cumberland in 1697/98.  She was only one year old and was the first child born alive that I’ve found of my 7 x g.grandparents.  Fortunately, the 2nd child a son lived to marry and have 7 children, thus becoming my 6 x g.grandfather.  There was another child in the family baptised in 1700, but as no name was given, I assume he or she must have been ill at the time and possibly died.

[DORAN54]

59 yrs ago today i was born