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General => The Common Room => The Lighter Side => Topic started by: Mart 'n' Al on Sunday 18 February 18 15:10 GMT (UK)
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I was just wondering if anyone has actually had Four Weddings and a Funeral in quick succession in their family, or in their research. If so I wonder what is the shortest time span between these five events.
Extra points, of course, if the deceased actually collapses at the fourth wedding.
Martin
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Not quite four weddings and a funeral but we had a death, a birth and a marriage in our family in May, June and July in that order, one year.
My father also attended 3 funerals in 3 days when I was a teenager, my grandfather (mother's father) died one Tuesday morning, 36 hours later my grandmother (father's mother) died, and my grandfather's cousin died in the next day or so, meaning the funerals took place over three days in succession.
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Also, not four weddings and a funeral (I think we are all waiting to see if there are contenders to meet this one ;D) ...
My Great x 2 Grandfather called Edward Senior, had his burial service at St Oswald in Durham on the same day that his youngest child - a son - was baptised also at the same Church.
I think this a bit strange that a family happy event would take place on the same day as the child's Father's burial. :o
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Maybe they did it that way intentionally to lessen the family's grief of losing their father/grandfather/friend etc). If the funeral service was first, (and everyone would be naturally be very sad at that loss) perhaps the family thought it would be a good idea to baptise the child on the same day, so the joy of a little newcomer being baptised may have lightened up the mourner's spirits a little.
I think it's quite a good thing to do actually! 🙏🙏
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Yes, I think you are probably right. How sad though, for my Great x 2 Grandmother at that time, to be left to bring up a large family on her own - albeit with the help of her own widowed Mother it seems. The baptism must have been tinged with great sadness. :-\
The child I mentioned was called Charles Edward Senior. Sadly, he went on to die young - at only 16 years of age. :'( He actually died in a hotel in Newcastle Upon Tyne. I don't know the story behind that one. His burial entry records that he was a 'Gentleman'. His Father Edward was also sometimes recorded as a Gentleman or Gentleman Farmer. At the end of the latter's life he had taken on an inn and was the vice president of a licenced victuallers society.
After Edward's death, his wife Mary's fortunes (my Great x 2 Grandmother) seem to have gone down with each successive census. She went from having servants to being one (a family 'nurse' at quite an old age). She never remarried.
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Best I can do is 3 weddings and 2 funerals in one year (1966).
March - death of my father's cousin and my cousin's marriage.
April - death of my uncle
October - marriages of my uncle and aunt.
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1935 was not a good year for my dad; in February a baby cousin died, then in July his maternal grandma, followed in August by his sister (aged 23) and his mother in October. He was just 12 years old.
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I'm glad to see that this thread which I started has finally come alive. Keith is clearly the winner so far.
Martin
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When my 4th great grandfather was buried in 1863 it looks like every unbaptised child in the family got a dunking. My 2nd great grandmother's three siblings and her cousin Andrew were all christened same day, same church.
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Three weddings from June to August, two brothers and a sister. Ours was the August one.
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Not quite 4 weddings and a funeral, but 2 deaths, 3 weddings, (1 golden, 1 silver) and 1 birth.
My Maternal grandparents Golden Wedding!
My Paternal grandfather died a week after my Paternal grandmother!
No. 1 brother's wedding in between!
No. 2 brother and his wife had their first child the day before above wedding!
My Mum and Dad's Silver Wedding, - (somewhere in between, can't recall)
So that's 3 weddings, 2 deaths, 2 funerals and 1 birth! All within a week or so.
Modified to add: 1 more Death, 1 more funeral and 1 more Birth.
My Dad passed away from Motor Neurone Disease just 10 days before my son was born, so that's 1 more death, 1 more funeral, one more birth, (and my broken heart because my Dad never met my son or saw him growing into the wonderful man he is now!
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My sister was born 10th April, same day as wedding of Maternal Aunt Mary. My Maternal Grandfather John died on 5th May, which happens to be a birthday for Maternal Aunt Kay
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I have just been tuning again to see if there has been an out right winner yet ..
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My great niece born this year on the same day my grandmother passed away 50 years ago.
My Scottish gt grandfather and my English gt grandmother born on exactly the same day 1855.
My Scottish gt grandmother was born on the same day in 1863 that her son ( my grandfather ) passed away in 1985.
My daughter and my nephew born on the same day 15 years apart.
And the other day I entered a date for a wedding, same day not same year , as ours but can`t just remember who it was.