On 5 May
Joseph Pemberton my 4 x g.g.uncle was born in Davenham, Cheshire in 1757
Elizabeth Charlotte Leighton my 1st cousin 3 times removed was baptised at St Botolph’s Church, Boston, Lincolnshire in 1838
Abigail Tubbs my 3 x g.g.aunt was baptised at All Saints Church, Holbeach, Lincolnshire in 1817
Agnes Smith my 6 x g.g.aunt was baptised at St Mary’s Parish Church, Dalton in Furness, Lancashire in 1706
Sarah Robinson my 4 x g.g.aunt died in Lincolnshire in 1779
Margaret Dameron (nee Felton) my 10 x g.grandmother was buried in Westerfield, Suffolk in 1600 aged 73. Her death was particularly unfortunate for her grandchildren as in her husband’s Will he made her responsible for bringing up the children of thei daughter Joan (she being the one who was pronounced fatua et ideota since birth) and her husband John Collett. Margaret was charged with ensuring that they had sufficient meat, drink, clothes and lodgings. Her son in law died in March of the same year, so when she died the children were on their own. Fortunately, the eldest who was 22 at the time had, when he was 21, inherited the Manor House where Margaret lived, so I imagine the younger children remained there, although the eldest son married and moved to Norwich for a while so, unlike many other orphans of the time I guess they weren’t destitute.
Thomas Dameron my 10 x g.g.uncle (and brother of Margaret Dameron above’s husband) was buried in Westerfield, Suffolk in 1544. He was just over one year old.
Frances Chapman (nee Bell) my 5 x g.grandmother was buried at St Mary’s Church, Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire in 1796. She was a widow aged 65 at the time of her death, however, I have yet to find my 5 x g.grandfather’s death. As she was 28 when she married, and I couldn’t find a birth of a Frances Bell anywhere, I assumed that she had probably been married before and I found a Frances Allen who married a John Bell in 1756 when she was 25. He was a widow with 2 children and he and Frances had a child a couple of years after their marriage, and then John Bell died. So Frances was left with 2 stepsons, aged 3 and 4 and a baby daughter. She then married my 5 x g.grandfather and had another 8 children, the eldest being my 4 x g.grandmother.