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My lovely Uncle W Hastie b 1/12/1832 Kelso son of Robert Hastie and Isabella Borthwick...who is this evening celebrating his 80 years with a family party. :)
1st Cousin 1 x removed J Hastie m C McKenzie m 1/12/1967 Honolulu, Haiwai. John served 3 terms in Vietnam and went on to become a Sheriff with the police in California.
2nd Cousin 4 x removed Margaret McCartney b 1/12/1855 Whithorn Wigtownshire.
2nd Cousin * Oliver m * Paget 1/12/1964 Jedburgh, Roxburghshire.
4g Uncle John Cowe b 1/12/1828 Foulden Berwickshire d 6/7/1831 aged 3. Son of John & Elizabeth Cowe Nee Watson.
1st Cousin 4 x removed Isabella Brydon Falconer b 1/12/1867 Drumelzier, Peeblesshire, daughter of Andrew & Janet Falconer nee Turnbull
2nd Cousin 4 x removed Esther Fisher chr 01/12/1841 Duns, Berwickshire. Daughter of John & Elizabeth Fisher nee Hastie.
Moderator Comment: Continued from:
Topic: On This Day in ..... NOVEMBER
I reckon that I could fill up most of the calendar with the BMDs of my ancestors but it would be more fun if we all did it together, so come on - let's see if we can have at least one person's life celebrated for every day of the year.
Over to you.................
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My 2x gt.gt. uncle Frederick Viney, born 1847 in Monkton Combe, Somerset; son of Henry and Eliza.
An ag. lab on 1861 census......then I lose him.
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Can I claim this one:
Died 1899, in Brightlingsea: Hazell Griggs. My AFT says he was the father-in-law of my 3 x great uncle. How tenuous can you get?
Aaaaaarrgghhhhh....I've just noticed thoose bl**dy Santas are back!
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Curses! Had to go away for a couple of days, didn't take the lappy ... and have just now discovered that my FH software won't backdate so I can look up yesterday's anniversaries!
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My first cousin, twice removed, Louisa Emma Barham, born 1861 in Shoreditch, daughter of Henry and Louisa. She married James Ireland, a fish frier, in 1883; he died young and Louisa continued with the business and died in 1902. Their only child died as an infant.
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I love the Santas Gen ::) ;D ;D ;D ;D
3g Aunt Agnes Hastie daughter of Thomas Hastie & Janet Falconer m William Cochrane 2/12/1870, Coldstream, Berwickshire.
3g Grandmother Agnes Gilchrist m William Fairgrieve 2/12/1859 at Peebles. Agnes was the mother of my 2g grandfather John Roxburgh. John was the illigitimate son of James Roxburgh, Farmer. He was acknowledged by his father and was involved with both his Roxburgh & Fairgrieve half siblings. I don't know why he didn't marry Agnes :'(
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I have four Sarah Foyle's, and its the birthday of one of them today ! 1798, born in Witchampton, Dorset. There are dozens of Foyles/Foils and Fripps/Freeps, and I'm still trying to sort them .... they are connected to my Ambrose Trowbridges, but as there are three Ambrose's, you can see my difficulties ....
Why oh why didn't they have a greater variety of names ?
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3/12/1895, surgeon Robert Gordon Tatham died (my gt gt grandfather) in Poplar, London.
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Gosh, I almost missed today.
1883, John Daniel was born in Cruden, Aberdeenshire. My 3 x great uncle.
1868, John Raitt, born Monymusk, Aberdeenshire. 1st cousin, 3 x removed.
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2nd December 1889 my great-great aunt Eliza died. Born Eliza Evans in 1833, daughter of John Evans, who at the time was manager of Dowlais Iron Works. She married Dr Thomas Jones Dyke who was Medical Officer of Health for Merthyr Tydfil in very testing times.
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My son-in-laws birthday today ! Happy birthday, Mr Fixit !
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I missed one on the 1st December.
Alberta Louisa Riggs, wife of my grand-uncle Isaac Williams; she was baptised on 1st December 1875. Neither of her parents were present .... they had both died in October 1975, the month of her birth. The parents were Albert and Louise Riggs, and I like it that whoever arranged her naming and baptism, put together both her parents names for her.
Possibly the mother died in childbirth, but the father ? No idea.
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35 years ago today at one oclock I got married.
Carol
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Happy anniversary !! :D
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Thanks Lynart
My eyes will look like Santa's tomorrow after a glass or two!!
Carol :D
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Congratulations Carol.
Jen
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Congratulations from me too Carol 8) :)
My 7g grandparents Robert Thythie (various spellings) m Margaret Lawrie 3/12/1706 Oldhamstocks, Berwickshire.
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George Woodward was baptised in 1743. He was my 4 x g.grandfather, who was born and lived in the same area in Cheshire all his life. Interestingly as a child/teenager I lived quite close and although I visited the area with my mother, she didn’t mention she had ancestors and relatives there. Perhaps she didn’t know because her grandmother who was the g.granddaughter of George Woodward, although born in the area moved to Manchester.
Baxter Stanton was baptised in 1830 in Spalding Lincolnshire. He was my 1st cousin 5 times, he was also Redroger’s g.g.uncle
Charles Gilchrist died in 1940 – He was my 2nd cousin 3 times removed. I have met, and am frequently in touch with his son who although born in England now lives in USA.
Samuel L’Estrange died in 1876 – One of my g.g.uncle’s married 3 times and this is the father of his first wife.
Mary Baxter was buried in 1819 in Heckington, Lincolnshire. She was my 5 x g.grandmother and Redroger’s 3 x g.grandmother.
John Badams and Ann Cleaver married in 1758 in Warwickshire. They were my husband’s 5 x g.grandparents.
I didn't have many for the last couple of days, but one I did miss - I wonder why ::) was my m.i.law who died on 1 December 1977.
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John St Erme Cardew, my first cousin once removed, was born 3rd December 1891.
He joined the Navy: I've pasted some of his obituary in here:
the deceased officer passed straight into Osborne, and thence to the Royal Naval College. He was on ... the training ship Racer at Osborne 1904-7 and the Espiègle at Dartmouth 1907-9, after his college days he joined HMS Cumberland 1909 and after six months was appointed to the original Dreadnought, of which he saw the keel laid, was present at the launching and was a middy 1909-10. He next went to HMS Defence 1910-11 and was on her during the voyage upon which she acted as escort ship to the Duke of Connaught during his voyage to South Africa. In 1911 he was on HMS Beagle, and in 1911-12 HMS London, taking part in the rescue in the Mediterranean of the passengers of the ill-fated Delhi, upon which it will be remembered the Duke of Fife was voyaging. During the early part of 1912 he was appointed to HMS Hibernia, and later in the same year to HMS Africa, upon which he remained until 1914. Early in the latter year he was appointed as sub-lieutenant to HMS Lizard, a torpedo-boat destroyer of very modern construction and oil driven, and was on her at the outbreak of the war. A remarkably graphic account of the Heligoland battle contained in a letter by him to his father was published in the Echo some little time after the battle, and was copied in papers throughout the world.
Some of his notebooks are online at the RN Museum: http://www.seayourhistory.org.uk/component/option,com_gallery2/Itemid,402/g2_itemId,14600/
Sadly he was taken ill soon after being appointed to HMS Canada as a lieutenant and died at home in 1917.
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My mother, Mabel Alice Esther Perkins (nee Jennings) died this day in 2006. She was born in 1912 and would have been 100 this year.
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1759 Phillis Grose was born in Portsea, Hampshire. My 6 x great aunt.
1899. Joseph Milne Raitt was born in Aberdeen. This was my great uncle Joe. When my father started to research his family tree, in the late 1970s, he contacted his uncle Joe who was still in Aberdeen and whose memory was still extremely good. He replied to my dad, a long and detailed letter in which he listed not only his own siblings and their families but also as much as he knew about his mother's and father's trees. I now have that letter, which is lovely in itself but it has also helped me enormously in carrying on from where my father left off. I was able to trace uncle Joe's family forwards and a couple of years ago found that his daughter was still alive and living in the North of Scotland. I then traced her sons, who are a little younger than I am, contacted one of them - because I didn't want to go straight to an elderly woman until I knew whether she was well enough and that she would welcome the contact. She was delighted to speak to me on the phone and to write as much as she could remember about our shared family. She sent photographs of her father in the trenches of WW1. Then we arranged to meet in the Spring of last year. Sadly, when I went up to Ullapool, she was poorly and staying with her son in the South of England. We haven't managed to do that journey again and I now wonder whether we will ever meet but I'm so glad I found her.
The other weird coincidence is that, when I told her son where I now live, he was able to tell me that his parents had been GPs here and that he spent the first few years of his life less than five miles away from where I am sitting typing this post!
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Coincidences happen all the time in FH !
I had for years been unable to find out what had happened to all my grandmothers siblings (Williams isn't an easy surname to trace) and had believed they were all dead in Hampshire or Dorset. Now I find that the majority of them migrated to S. Wales around the end of the 1800's and lived and died 20 miles from where I am now !
Still not been able to find the graves of great grandparents (who also came to the Risca area) and died there .... but trying to locate a John and Mary Williams in Wales isn't the easiest task.
I like this thread .... the little stories people have found out about their ancestors are so interesting.
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4/12/1798, Francis Mackwood married Ursula Dodsworth in the parish of Wykeham (haven't yet worked out what relations they were to me! :-[ )
4/12/1867, Elizabeth Frances Tatham baptised at All Saints, Poplar, daughter of Christopher Tatham and his wife Julia Grace Mackwood. This Christopher was the brother of my 2xgt grandfather.
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1st Cousin 4 x R Jane Anne Black b04/12/1854 Ayton Berwickshire, daughter of Alexander Black & Jane Cowe.
1st Cousin 4 x R Agnes Jane Falconer b 04/12/1867 Eccles, Berwickshire daughter of John & Mary Cowe nee Wightman.
3g Uncle James Cowe 04/12/1864 Coldstream, Berwickshire, daughter of Alexander and Helen Cowe nee Cowe. I think Alexander & Helen will be related but after extensive research and many generations back on both sides I'm still missing that link!!
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4g grandparents John Falconer & Margaret Hardy m 05/12/1804 at Swinton & Simprin, Berwickshire. Son of George Falconer & Beatrice Mack....and daughter of Edward Hardy & Janet Simpson.
1st Cousin 4 x R Christina Bookless Cochrane b 05/12/1849 Biggar, Lanarkshire, daughter of Thomas & Mary Cochrane nee Lennie.
2nd Cousin 4 x R Helen Lindsay b 05/12/1858, married to David Wilson, daughter of Thomas & Jane Lindsay nee Spark.
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Henry Minchin Simons was mentioned on a manuscript family tree that I inherited. Such an unusual name helped me to find him and his story. He was my 2nd cousin 3 times removed. Born near Bradford in Yorkshire, where his family had an interest in the Bowling Iron Works, he moved to Singapore and became a merchant there. William Paterson and Henry Minchin Simons became partners with William Wemyss Ker, of Ker, Rawson and Company in 1853. When Ker retired in 1859, the company became Paterson and Simons. The company traded in a variety of commodities, including camphor, vanilla, cinnamon, gutta-percha, sea slugs, shark fins, tin, coffee, and pearls. Taking note of the profitable opium trade being conducted by companies such as Jardine Matheson, the partnership began shipping opium to China.Henry was also a member of the Legislative Council in Singapore as well as agent for the ruler of Johore.
Henry died on 5th December 1901 aged 77.
His four children married into fascinating families and I have much enjoyed following those lines; his son Henry Melvill Simons followed him into the business in Singapore.
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5th December, 1802 .... Betty Fripp born in Dorset.
I'm starting to get to grips with my Fripps/Freeps who are a bunch with very few Christian names .... so .... I think this one is Betty Fripp, as opposed to Bettey Freep .... but more work needed !
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6/12/1835 - Ann Eliza Thearle born in Marylebone; daughter of James R Thearle and his wife Elizabeth Prestage. Would have been my 3xgt aunt, but sadly she died aged just 2 years - she was a sister to my 2xgt grandfather Alfred Thearle.
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My ggg grandfather Mark Edwards died in Staplegrove, Somerset on 5th Dec 1870.
With a name like Edwards, he's always been difficult to sort out, but he seems to have been a lime burner in Stoke St Mary while he was able to earn anything, and a pauper when he wasn't.
It's so frustrating that this is all I know and will probably ever know about this man and yet he will have had a complex and varied life like the rest of us.....
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My grandfather was born on the gold-fields of Victoria on 6th Decmeber 1887.
He went on to become a bicycle builder before joining the regular army.
Served on the Western front in the dying stages of WW1.
Also served as army instructor during WW2 but didn't go abroad!
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December 6th 1888, my 2 x great uncle, Alexander Shaw, married Annie Christie in Nairn.
I don't like it when I have nothing to say about people. It means I haven't done my research properly.
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That's the trouble with all my Fripps/Freeps/Frypps .... too many of them with too few names .... but I WILL get there !! They seem to be my line of Roman Catholics, which I didn't know I had until a few days ago !
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I forgot yesterday so here's the more interesting ancestors from yesterday and today.
5 December
Harriet Middleton was baptised in 1847. This is the 2nd illegitimate daughter of Elizabeth Middleton, sister of Jane below. Perhaps there was nothing else to do in the village where they lived.
Edward Stanton died in 1775. He was my 4 x g.g.uncle and was only 6 weeks old when he died.
John Conway Case died in 1990. He was one of my uncles.
Maria Newton died in 1881. She was my 2 x g.g.aunt
Mary Cocket my 3 x g.grandmother was buried on 5 December 1827. She had at least 2 illegitimate children, one died as a baby, the other became my 2 x g.grandfather. She died in Holbeach Workhouse and was buried in All Saints Church, Holbeach, Lincolnshire. Despite searching the graveyard, I couldn’t find a gravestone for her. I imagine she was buried in an unmarked grave. We visited the vicar to ask if he could tell us in which part of the graveyard she was, but although he very kindly got out his records for us, they didn’t give any further information.
6 December
Samuel Collett was born 1700, he was my 5 x g.grandfather. Strangely, although I have lots of information about Samuel’s ancestors and descendants, I know little about him apart from the fact that he was a tanner by trade. I have downloaded a will from TNA but haven’t got round to transcribing it yet although I've printed it out. I need a magnifying glass. :(
Jane Middleton my 2 x g.g.aunt was baptised in 1846. She had two illegitimate children, the first died aged aged 2 about the same time as the 2nd one was born. Three years later she married and left her son with her mother and brother, where he stayed until he was at least 21.
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6g Aunt Jane Galbraith chr 6/12/1745 Oldhamstocks, Berwickshire, daughter of Thomas Galbraith & Elizabeth Thythie. This was the year that the Jacobite Rebellion started.
3g Aunt Janet Hastie b 06/12/12 Bunkle & Preston, daughter of Thomas & Janet Hastie nee Falconer.
2nd Cousin 4 x R George Lindsay b 06/12/1866 Bunkle & Preston, Berwickshire, son of Thomas & Jane Lindsay nee Spark
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6th December 1911 Evelyn Gabriel Tremayne Mercier, French army officer, my 4th cousin once removed, married Raymonde Hallaure in Le Havre.
He was the son of Gen Auguste Mercier of the Dreyfus affair and Fanny Isabel Simons; it's still unclear how Fanny came to meet Auguste, but they were married in Versailles.
I had a story about the Mercier connection from long ago, but have only managed to connect the story with truth thanks to help from Rootschatters and from people on www.genealogie.com.
Not sure that I'm at all proud to have Auguste on the family tree - he was one of the men who never changed their mind about Dreyfus. However, Evelyn and his brother Francis both reached pretty high rank in the French Army and fought in WW1.
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Born on this day (7th December) in 1859 ... my gt grandfather Christopher Robert Tatham, son of surgeon Robert Gordon Tatham and his (then) wife, Emma Louisa Dixon.
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5g Aunt Margaret (Peggie) Burn b 07/12/1786 at Morebattle, Roxburghshire, daughter of George & Janet Burn nee Smith.
My lovely Nana Isabella (Isa) Borthwick b 07/12/1907, Glenkinchie, Pencaitland. Isa was the daughter of Thomas & Frances Borthwick nee Roxburgh and the wife of Robert Herbert Cowe Hastie. Isa & her two younger sisters were left fatherless when Thomas was killed at Loos. Her mother never married again. She was a great cook and in the days before 'chefs', she was the head cook at Ednam House Hotel, Kelso. Passed this talent on to my dad and his younger brother....alas not to her granddaughter ::)
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Daughter #2 born today in 19 :-X
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1760, Joseph Grose, born Portsea hampshire. My 6 x great uncle.
1853, Mary Bland died in Bedale, North Yorkshire. My 3 x great grandmother. Both her children were illegitimate, which means that one line of my tree comes to an abrupt halt at this point.
1975, Ethel Margaret Howe, Nee Raitt died in Darlington. She was my nan - all four 4'11" of her. I used to measure my growth rate by seeing if I could catch up with her. I did eventually but not by very much. She and my grandad came to Middlesbrough to run the Merchant Navy Hotel there and my mum worked for them, thus meeting my dad when he came back at the end of WW2. My na might have been small in stature but you wouldn't want to cross her. Her tongue could be very sharp. Some of my earliest memories are of being at her house ( I was born there but we moved away the following year). There was an outside loo, with newspaper - and spiders! After my grandad died ( Inverness, 1968), nan came to live with my parenrs for a while. How I wish I had talked to her more about her family. I have lots of letters, from when she still lived in Scotland and which she wrote to my mum. They contain very valuable snippets and give a massive insight into her character but ohhhhh...if only I had been there to listen.
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We always say 'If only ....' when another oldie passes away :'(
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. My na might have been small in stature but you wouldn't want to cross her.
This was a typing error - I always called her nana. But Na is what I am to my elder grandson!
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Annie Josephine KENNY nee CURLEY died on this day in 1999
Also remembering
Mary Anne KEARNEY born Mar 31 1897 died Dec 05 1989 buried Deansgrange Cemetery Dublin
daugther of Philip KEARNEY and Esther CARTY
Mary Anne is buried with her step-mother Bridget BYRNE
and three step-sisters Mary Elizabeth, Mary Bridget and Elizabeth
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My gt.gt. uncle, Arthur Hugh Pain, born 1870 in Plumstead; son of Charles George and Mary Jane (nee Ottley). He was a carpenter/joiner, as was his father. He married Emelie Selina Levenson in 1901; there were no children and he died in 1957 surviving Emelie by almost 20 years.
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Mary Anne Foyle born today in 1823.
One of my bunch of Dorset Fripps/Foyles I'm working on at the moment, so apart from knowing her father was John Foyle and her mother was nee Jane Spencer, I know nothing about her.
My 'relationship calculator' says 'no relationship' :( .... so why am I bothering ?!! But I often think it helps to sort out as many as possible of these dubious ones as some link may suddenly jump out further down the line. I know she is linked somehow, possibly through second marriages, to one of my four Ambrose Trowbridges .... but which Ambrose ?!
Such are the joys and frustrations of this hobby of ours !
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I missed one on the 1st December.
I have my mothers and Grand-mothers birthday books. What treasures !
My mother had noted for 1st December, Herbert Henry Hoare .... but how he is linked to my S. Wales Hoares (Grandmothers sister Annie was married to a Hoare) .... I have no idea ! Another one to add to the ever-increasing list of 'must be sorted'.
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Almost missed it; - 7/12/1941 ... Pearl Harbour
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7th December 1805: died at Eton, my great great great great grandfather Thomas Simons, Gardener of Eton College.
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Apart from some very distant ancestors, I only have one for today.
Elizabeth Hobson (nee Lockwood) my 2 x g.grandmother died this day in 1894. She became a widow in 1876 when my 2 x g.grandfather died. Following his death she moved from Yorkshire to Manchester to live with one of her sons and two granddaughters, one of whom had been living with her since a baby. Some of her other children had already moved to Manchester, where they all owned their own butchery shops.
Unfortunately the son she was living with died and she moved with her two granddaughters to another address. The two girls were both butchers’ assistants – probably working for one of their uncles. Although she died at the granddaughters’ address, she had actually moved to another address, two doors away from another of her butcher sons. I imagine she was taken ill and went back to stay with her granddaughters where she died. Following her death in 1894, she was taken back to Yorkshire where she was buried with her husband in St John the Baptist Church, Penistone.
I only found this out my chance. I knew where my 2 x g.grandfather was buried and my OH and I spent a very wet afternoon searching the graveyard for his grave. Eventually just as we were about to give up, I decided to scrabble under an overgrown bush by the graveyard wall and there was Joseph’s grave. The inscription showed that his wife had been buried with him, it's fortunate the family were wealthy enough to have my 2 x g.grandmother taken back to Yorkshire and buried only 3 days following her death. Fortunately the weather in December 1894 was mild for the first three weeks, otherwise they'd have had a problem getting over the Pennines and into Yorkshire. ???
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I decided to scrabble under an overgrown bush by the graveyard wall and there was Joseph’s grave.
But don't we get some funny looks when we are doing things like that. I have spent hours scraping thick frost off gravestones in the North of Scotland, much to the bewilderment of the local dog walkers and those who were tending family graves.
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Today in 1895, Jack Angier Cant was born in Brightlingsea. My 2nd cousin, twice removed -( not sure what that means but it's pretty distant).
I think he married Ethel Foot in 1926 but that's the sum total of my knowledge on him.
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My 1st cousin, twice removed, Rosalie Olive West, daughter and youngest child of George Charles and Mercy (nee Rainer) was born in 1900 in Chiselhurst. She married Edward Heartfield in 1925 and died in 1980. That's all I know about her.
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Baptised 8/12/1830 at St Margaret's, Lee, Kent, ... Elizabeth Dunbar Masson, daughter of John Masson and his wife Margaret Dunbar. Margaret was a sister to my 3xgt grandfather's first wife, Justina Dunbar, and to Duncan Dunbar II
8/12/1877, Christopher Tatham (brother of my 2xgt grandfather Robert G Tatham) died in Wandsworth, leaving a wife (Julie Grace nee Mackwood), a daughter Elizabeth (10 yrs) and a son Christopher (13mths).
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Two great great grandfathers died on this date, the first, Thomas Watson died 08 Dec 1868 at Croft on Tees aged 41. He was born in Darlington and started out as a carpenter and then joined the railway as a ticket collector, and secondly, Alexander Urwin Snowball died 08 Dec 1898 at Hetton le Hole, Co.Durham aged 70. He was born in Haydon Bridge, Northumberland and was a brickmaker.
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4g Aunt Margaret Chisholm b Georgefield, Earlston, Berwickshire, daughter of Benjamin Chisholm & Isabella Gray
3g Uncle John Young 08/12/1920 b Galashiels, Selkirkshire, son of John Young & Sarah Dixon. John was a baker to trade as was his father John and following generations up to my Papa. They owned Bakeries in Hawick and Galashiels at that time.
2nd Cousin 4 x R Charles Hastie b 08/12/12 Scotch Ridge, Warren County, Iowa son of William & Mary Hastie nee Beltz
1st Cousin 3 x R Janet Hastie b 08/12/1872 Gordon, Berwickshire, daughter of Thomas & Janet Hastie nee Shearer. The Family emigrated to Mackay, Queensland, Australia. Janet must have died as a second one was born in Queensland.
3rd Cousin 3 x R William Cecil Falconer m Catherine Jane Purdon 08/12/1920, Whitechurch, Ontario
2nd Cousin Christopher Hastie b 08/12/1971 Forfar, Scotland
2nd Cousin Kevin R Rau b 08/12/1983 San Luis Obispo, California
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Normally, I have lots of ancestors who were born, baptised, married, died or buried on a specific day, but for 8 December I only have 2.
On this day in 1619 Bridget Collett, my 7 x g.g.aunt was baptised in Dennington, Framlingham Suffolk. She was actually born in 1618. She never married and was buried at St Saviour's Church in Southwark in London following her death in 1662. Her will stated that the bulk of her estate, including the rents from various cottages in Suffolk should be used to establish the first school at Westerfield for the poor children of the village. She must have had a considerable estate which was wisely invested over the years as it is still benefiting the local community today by offering funds to students towards books etc. http://www.bridgetcollett.org.uk/history.html gives more information.
The website states “it is believed that she was related to the Collett family who lived in the Manor house Westerfield”. She was in fact the niece of my 8 x g.g uncle who had had The Manor House bequeathed to him by his grandfather (my 10 x g.grandfather) John Dameron who died in 1597.
On this day in 1700 Mary Randal my 5 x g.g.aunt was baptised. She was the 2nd child in the family to be named Mary, as a sister was born 2 years earlier. I’ve not researched any further but I imagine the first Mary must have died.
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What a lovely idea. We have a similar trust in this village, of which I am a trustee, which a Rev Babington left land and money 'to buy bookes for poor children and educate 'em' !! We use the income these days to assist university students here.
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9/12/1897, born at Ghinni Ghinni, Herbert Stanley Delves son of Henry Delves and his wife Elizabeth Meldrum. "Stan" was my OH's uncle, the first in the family to break the cycle of pastoral poverty; - he rose through the ranks during WWI, was seconded to officer training in England and emerged as a lieutenant, then on returning to Australia he became a highly-qualified teacher.
Baptised 9/12/1829 - Elizabeth Jane Tatham and her cousin Mary Ann Tatham, daughters of Robert G Tatham and his brother Marmaduke Tatham
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My 2xgt. aunt Elizabeth Barham born in Finsbury in 1855, daughter of Francis and Isabella (nee Bailey). After a couple of sightings on the census I lose track of her.
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My Aunt Jean Turnbull Hastie (Bunty) b 09/12/1936 Cleughead, Fogo Berwickshire.
6g Aunt Marion Falconer b 09/12/1742 Bolton, East Lothian daughter of John & Margaret Falconer nee Hay, wife of John Rutherford.
3g Grandmother Janet Falconer daughter of John & Margaret Falconer nee Hardy, married her first husband John Drummond 09/12/1834 Whitsome & Hilton, Berwickshire. John died and Janet married my 3g grandfather in 1837. There were no children from her first marriage.
3g Uncle James Borthwick b 09/12/1836 Yarrow, Selkirkshire, son of Robert J & Jean Borthwick nee Hastie. James died aged 4, they called their next son b 1841 James.
1st Cousin 4 x R George Falconer m Isabella Lothian 09/12/1864 Westruther, Berwickshire, son of Edward & Elizabeth Falconer nee Mason. As an aside Isabella Lothian was my OH's 3g Aunt.
Two sisters married this day my 3rd Cousins 3 x R daughters of Philip & Johanna Hastie nee Kennedy
1. Mildred Hastie m Harry Oberlin 9/12/1903 At home, Fresno California.
2. Georgina Hastie m Fredrick Buckland 9/12/1903 At home, Fresno, California.
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On this day 7 years ago my lovely dad died.
My Grandfather, James Pringle Young b 10/12/1900 in Hawick, Roxburghshire, son of William Young and Jessie Glennie.
1st Cousin 5 x R Elizabeth Hastie daughter of Philip & Janet Hastie nee Mann married William Runciman 10/12/1850 in Ravenna, Ohio. Elizabeth went out to America to 'keep' house for her two brothers who were already there working on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. She met William a native of Coldstream Berwickshire, married and a year later in 1851 they moved to Warren County, Iowa.
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Married 10/12/1777, Christopher Tatham, yeoman, of Thornton-in-Lonsdale, and Ann Redmayne, daughter of John Redmayne and his second wife Jennet Dickson.
Died 10/12/1893, Augusta Louisa Tatham, daughter of Christopher Tatham, surgeon, and his wife Elizabeth Gordon. Augusta died at 60 East India Dock Road, Poplar. She was the sister of my 2xgt grandfather, and died unmarried.
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Two days in one again
9 Dec
Winifred Sybil Barnett was born this day in 1913. She married my dad’s eldest brother. She died in 1992.
Thomas Hobson my 5 x g.grandfather was baptised this day in 1698 in Huddersfield. His occupation was a Salter.
Roger Postlethwaite 1727 another 5 x g.grandfather was baptised this day in 1727 in Kirkby Ireleth, Lancashire.
Elizabeth Eliza Mumby my 2 x g.g.aunt died in Tasmania. In October 1847 she received a sentence of 7 years and transportation to Van Diemen's Land, Tasmania for stealing 11 lbs weight of beef, 2 quarts of wine, 2 bottles, 2 basins, 1 lb of butter and 4 lbs of bread from her then employer. This was her second offence of this type, she had previously been found guilty of stealing 9 pairs of socks, 2 yards of ribbon, a scarf, 2 yards of Orleans dress, 2 coats, 3 pinafores, 5 ties, 2 flannel jackets, a petticoat, a shirt, a pair of shoes, a pair of leggings, 2 pairs of gloves, 2 capes and 2 caps from her previous employer. She had at least 2 children prior to transportation, one of whom was the subject of a Bastardy Order. The children were left in England.
Joshua Gaunt my 6 x g.grandfather died in 1730 in Upper Denby, Yorkshire.
Jonathan Gaunt he was the brother of my 6 x g.grandfather above. He was buried on this day in 1725, weirdly 5 years before his brother died on the same date.
Ralph Stanton & Lydia Grant my 7 x g. Grandparents were married in Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire in 1697
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John Stanton & Elisabeth Northern my 4 x g.grandparents married in Heckington, Lincolnshire in 1795. John was a wheelwright.
Job Heald & Mary Goddard my 5 x g.grandparents were married in Kirkburton, Yorkshire in 1743
John Collett my 7 x g.g.uncle was baptised this day in 1627 in Westerfield, Ipswich. He died just over 2 years later on 18 December 1629.
Robert Smith my 7 x g.grandfather was baptised this day in 1676 in Dalton in Furness, Lancashire. He was a husbandman and in 1725 he leased land and tithebarns for 9 years at £66, that is equivalent to about £750 today.
Mary Jane Mumby my g.g.aunt died this day in 1879 from partus (puerperal) peritonitis, following the birth of her 11th child.
Elizabeth Lockwood my 2 x g.grandmother was buried this day, having died on 7 December. More info about her on that date.
Dorothy Postlethwaite my 4 g.g. aunt was buried this day in 1819 in Blawith, Ulverston
Edmund Spraggett my husband’s 3 x g.g.uncle was buried this day in 1847 in Leamington Hastings. He was 43. We haven’t got his death certificate so have no idea of the cause of death. His father was a farmer and maltster, so whether the early death was anything to do with those occupations, we don’t know.
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I was away yesterday so missed the anniversary of my 4 x great grandmother's death. Elizabeth Bland, nee Thornbury/Thornborough ( sp various) died 9th December 1841 in Aiskew Village, Bedale. I'm so glad she managed to live to be found on the 1841 census. It helped me enormously in unravelling some of that line. Thanks gran!
And let's not miss that yesterday, 9th December 2012, Patrick Moore died at the age of eighty-nine.
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My Welsh Gran died 10 Dec 1954
I was only 10 but can clearly remember my Father opening the Telegram.
Still have very fond memories
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My nan died 10 December 1965 the only grandparent I knew. I do remember it well it was a starry clear night a bit similiar to this evening. My nan was my first port of call with family history, but no one knew exactly how old she was and it took a while to find the correct birth certificate for her.
Ewan
Nan was 82
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So how old was she ??
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Thanks to LizzieW I can add a couple of dates to my tree! ;)
We seem to have surprising few December events - that I can find off hand anyhow! Do you all have some system for finding them easily?
Wiggy :)
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Wiggy - which dates did you add? Oh just realised it was the Gaunts, do you want any more info? I was looking at some of our old e-mails earlier this evening. ;)
Only got 3 today out of the whole of my tree and that includes one of my husband's ancestors and one distantly related ancestor. I know it's not 11 December yet, but I'll be busy all day tomorrow, so I thought I'd get this in early. ::)
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Elizabeth Milnes my 8 x g.grandmother was baptised this day in 1603 in Dewsbury. She died on 1 November 1685, aged nearly 82. A good age to reach in 1685 I would think.
Catherine Hannah Sharp my 1st cousin 4 times removed was baptised this day in 1834 in Boston, Lincolnshire. She died in May 1838 aged 3½. I’ve not bought her death certificate, so don’t know the cause of her death.
Edmund Arthur Whittaker & Minnie Hardy my husband’s grandparents were married this day in 1897 in Audenshaw, Lancashire. He was always known as Arthur Edmund, which caused a problem when my husband’s brother went to register his death and was asked to produce a birth certificate!
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We've just caught up with another Gaunt cousin and she has the old info about Joseph jnr's marriage to Hannah Scholfield - which we've now sorted out as false - so I've sent her the updated version - whether she will take it or not I don't know - must ring her soon after she's had time to absorb the new findings and see what she thinks -
I'll give you a yell if I need more Lizzie! thank you!
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3g Aunt Katherine Baptie b 11/12/1850 Hobkirk, Roxburghshire, daughter of James & Cecile Baptie nee Buckham, married to William Elder.
1st Cousin 4 x R Benjamin Chisholm b 11/12/1857 Ledgerwood, Berwickshire, son of William & Euphemia Chisholm nee Hardie, married to Jane Brodie.
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On 11th December, 1936 .... the abdication of King Edward VIII.
"You must believe me when I tell you that I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love."
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Looks like there are several in my tree - all pretty remote though
3rd cousin 1xR Kevin Barry Garvey from Queensland died 11 Dec 2003 (only 50 :'( )
1st cousin 6XR Charles Beer died 11 Dec 1737 (I'm really struggling to sort out my Beers - I know nothing about this one)
Got a couple who are hopefully still living and were born on 11 December - can't post those....
Then there's my 2nd cousin twice removed, Delos J Virgin who married at Highland Park, Wayne, Michigan on 11 Dec 1917
Kathleen Lucy Northcote was born 11/12/1910, my 3rd cousin once or twice removed depending which branch you go down (lots of cousins intermarrying on this side of my family)
My 4th Gt grandfather, Robert Rogers was baptised 11/12/1757. He was part of a long line of sawyers - not a very lucrative trade apparently as he died in the workhouse....
Lastly, Mary Elizabeth Trott, married to by 2nd gg uncle (whatever THAT means as a relationship) died on 11 Dec 1894. She had 12 children, 3 of whom died in July 1870...... must have been an epidemic of some sort.... must check
Looking up these people makes me realise how little I know about most of them apart from the very bare bones :-[
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Missed an important one for us
on 9 Dec 1757 Thomas Ransom born in Spittalfields London. He was tried for stealing clothing in 1786 and condemned to death - commuted to transportation for life in 1789 and arrived in Australia in 1791 on the third fleet.
Made a big success of his life here ins Australia and founded a large family.
He is my Gx3 grandfather.
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My 1st cousin, once removed, Daisy E Morgan/Rainer born 1915 in Croydon; daughter of Daisy Gertrude Charlotte Rainer and, possibly Henry Morgan. She was registered with both surnames but sadly died the following year; registered under Morgan.
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On this day in 1783, William Raitt married Elspet Rhinde in Kintore, Aberdeenshire. My 5 x great-grandparents.
I think missed one last week, largely because it was so new. On Tuesday December 4th, 2012, my father's cousin, died, at her home in Ullapool at the age of eighty-three. I'm not putting her details on here as I feel it is just too recent. We made contact about a year ago, for the first time and I was supposed to be meeting her in the Spring but she was already ill and when I went North, she was receiving treatment in the South of England. So sorry not to have found her sooner.
Oh - I have just realised why I felt I had written this before. Tuesday 4th December, the day she died, was also her father's birthday and I told you about her then.
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For a very good reason, I shan't be spending much time in here tomorrow so....
12/12/1976, John Riddell, died in Momymusk, Aberdeenshire. This is one of my most distant links - he was the husband of a 1st cousin, 4 x removed!
But the reason I shan't be around is that on 12/12/1951, my partner ( known in here as CM) was born in Solihull. 'Tis the man's birthday and we are going out to celebrate!
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Happy Birthday, CM!
12/12/1821 - John Korff married Mary Gordon at St Dunstan's Stepney. John Korff was the son of the ship's captain whose name was given (slightly corrupted) to Coffs Harbour, NSW, ... and Mary was the sister of my 2xgt grandmother Elizabeth Gordon Tatham
12/12/1837 - Hannah Maria Dixon (nee Howard? - not entirely certain!) died of "enlargement of the heart", having had seven children, the youngest less than a year old. Five of those children survived to adulthood - one was my 2xgt grandmother Emma Louisa.
Around 12/12/1899 - Elizabeth Frances Tatham married Frederick William Temple at Holy Trinity Church, Chelsea. This Elizabeth was the daughter of Christopher Tatham (brother of my 2xgt grandfather) and his wife Julia Grace Mackwood.
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No births, marriages or deaths on this day and only two events.
My 5 x g.g.aunt Margaret Batty was baptised in 1700 in Penistone, Yorkshire.
My 9 x g.grandfather James Bagshawe was buried in Bradfield, Yorkshire in 1662.
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John Jaffray, my great-great-uncle, died 12th Dec 1910 in a rail accident in Manitoba. Born in Bannockburn, he had emigrated to Canada with several of his brothers.
Walter Scott Gould Barrett, my great-uncle, died 12th Dec 1906 in Orange County, New York. Born in Rodborough, he had emigrated to the US with two brothers.
Mattie Dibrell Pumphrey nee Simons, my second cousin once removed, died 12th December 1971 in Texas; he was a member of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas.
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A 4xgt grandmother of my children Isabella West was born in 1809 in Rylstone, Yorkshire; daughter of William and Isabella (nee Dixon). She married William Spink, a cordwainer, in 1833 in Rylstone and died in 1846 in Keighley.
Happy Birthday CM :)
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My great x 3 grandmother Sarah Groom (nee Burrows) born Woodbridge Suffolk in 1793, died in Tunstall, Suffolk on this day in 1880. She died a tragic death, as she caught light when, on the 28th November, she overfilled an oil lamp and tipped some of it out onto the fire. Her clothes caught fire and a young girl who was with her gave the alarm. The flames were extinguished by a passing labourer, but Sarah suffered burns to her face and throat and died 15 days later. I only discovered this when I sent for her death certificate and found there had been an inquest that recorded accidental death. I then found the details in a newspaper report.
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Unfortunately death by fire accident was very common in the 1800 especially among women and children due to loose long clothing and open flames for heat and cooking
Oscar Wilde's two half-sisters died when their dresses caught fire at a dance in 1871
On this day.... my beautiful daughter was born
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Only one for today:
1782, James Cant married Hannah Duck at St. Nicholas church, Tillingham, Essex. My 5 x great grandparents on my dad's side of the family.
Happy Birthday to myluck's lovely daughter.
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Thank you genjen
She is due home from school any moment!
Today is also the anniversary of our engagement
We threw a party for all our friends on Friday the 13th of December
It a week or more for most of them to realise we were serious about getting married!
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13th December 1814 my great-grandfather William Parish Barrett was born in Bideford. He was among the early people to train as veterinary surgeons, and among the first to be appointed to the East India Company, serving with light cavalry and artillery in their army. He returned from India just before the Mutiny, and finally settled in Cheltenham.
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Dorothy Dawson was born this day in 1898. She was my husband’s aunt.
Samuell Cockett my 6 x g.grandfather was born this day in 1679 in Alvechurch, Worcester.
Mary Bell my 4 x g.grandmother was baptised this day in 1747 in Frodsham, Cheshire. Her husband, my 4 x g.grandfather was baptised 4 years and 10 days exactly before her at the same church.
Agnes Addison my 6 x g.grandmother was baptised this day in 1696 in Dalton in Furness, Lancashire.
Clement Tubbs my half 2 x g.g.uncle was buried in 1824 in Holbeach, Lincolnshire aged 2. His father was my 3 x g.grandfather who married twice, but neither marriage was to the mother of my 2 x g.grandfather. ;D
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Where is everyone? - Christmas shopping?
I've only two ancestors for today.
John Bayldon and Elizabeth Milnes my 8 x g.grandparents married in Dewsbury, Yorkshire in 1624.
Mary Skelton my 5 x g.grandmother was baptised in 1745 in Holme Cultram, Cumberland
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I only have one; -
14/12/1859 - born, in the Goulburn area of NSW, Ambrose Carter, who was to be the father of my 3xgt grandfather's first wife Emily.
That's a bit obscure, isn't it? Not really a relation at all! :-\
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On 14th December was born Francis (Frank) Stubbs, 1946. He was one of the grand-sons of my great aunt Lizzie, sister to my own grandmother. She was the one who 'was a naughty girl and ran away to Canada' as a 20 year old in 1899.
Frank died seven years ago on the 11th December, near Kelowna, BC, where he lived. He had gone out into the woods in the snow to cut a Christmas tree, and died, when a huge tree fell on him. He wasn't found for a day or so ....
I met him in 2001; such a nice, shy person .... a real 'woodsman'.
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That is a really sad story, Lydart. What a dreadful way to die.
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And yet I suspect its where he would have wanted to die; he wasn't married, and loved the woods in BC. Just awful for his siblings and those who searched for, and found him.
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My mum, Mary Ellen Annie Howard, born 1921 in Kensington, London; daughter of John Frederick Bernard and Mary Johanna (nee Kingsman). She died on 15 November 2002 after a long battle with cancer.
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My brother in law *** Alcroft b 15/12/1950 Prestwick Ayrshire
My nephew *** Hastie b 15/12/1982 Kelso, Roxburghshire
My 5g grandparents William Douglas m Agnes Aitchison 15/12/1797 Selkirk, Selkirkshire
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My great Grandmother Julia Maria Groom was born 1846 in Poplar Middlesex. She was baptised in Tunstall Suffolk on the 14th November 1847 and I suspect they had returned there as her father was ill, he died in Tunstall in July 1847, leaving Maria's mother with 4 daughters under 6 years of age. The family remained there for some years before returning to London. Julia married my great grandfather in 1869 and gave birth to 9 children, all of whom survived. She died on the 18th April 1922.
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Quite a few today:
Thomas Tubbs, my 3 x g.grandfather & Mary Dunham married 1816. He was the father of my 2 x g.grandfather who was illegitimate. Thomas married twice, neither marriage to my 3 x g.grandmother.
Seth Hobson my g.grandfather, was born in Ingbirchworth, Yorkshire in 1847. He was a butcher in Manchester.
Ada Hobson my g.aunt, daughter of Seth above was born in Manchester in 1875
Marie Dameron my 10 x g.g.aunt was born in Westerfield, Ipswich in 1540. Her father was a church warden and yeoman and appeared to be quite a wealthy man if I add up all the bequests made in his will.
Susannah Stanton my 7 x g.g.aunt was baptised in Morton by Bourne, Lincolnshire in 1665.
John Uffindel my 7 x g.grandfather was baptised in Haddenham, Cambridgeshire in 1667
Mary Woodward my half 3 x g.g.aunt died in 1762 in Frodsham, Cheshire aged 2. She was the first daughter of my 4 x g.grandfather from his first marriage when he was only 17. I don’t know what happened to his wife, with whom he had 6 children, the last baptised in August 1768, as he re-married to my 4 x g.grandmother in December 1768. I guess his first wife probably died in, or soon after, childbirth and my 4 x g.grandfather left with 6 young children re-married very quickly, as they did in those days.
Lydia Uffindel my 6 x g.g.aunt was buried in Haddenham in 1720. She was 8 years old.
And last but not least, it is the birthday of my youngest son Robert, born 1974.
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One marriage for today. Charles Rugg, a rather distant cousin to say the least, married Jane Eaton at St Giles Cripplegate 15th December 1853.
He was a "proprietor of iron mines" and latterly "proprietor of iron works" and ironmaster in 1851-71, living in London. He and Jane had several children.
Then... in 1873 he emigrated with many of the children, but not with Jane, to Minnesota, where he ended up farming. I'm pretty sure Jane died in England after the emigration, so there's a tale or two to be told.
He gets a mention in a relative's Will of 1876: "I give and bequeath the sum of one hundred pounds to my niece Miss Mary Ann Rugg to assist her in her praiseworthy exertions on behalf of her partially blind niece and her emigrant brother who has a large family and is now resident in America."
I have traced the family in the USA, but more or less only through BMD and census data, which doesn't really tell the full story.
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No historical ones for a couple of days, but this recent one; -
My goddaughter turns 35 today. It is the first birthday since her mum died after a prolonged and very determined battle against cancer - she survived for 15 years longer than any of the doctors thought she would, managing to get into remission twice when everyone thought the treatment might kill her ...
So ... from your godmother and aunty, ... Happy Birthday sweetie :-*
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My brother in law *** Alcroft b 15/12/1950 Prestwick Ayrshire
My nephew *** Hastie b 15/12/1982 Kelso, Roxburghshire
My 5g grandparents William Douglas m Agnes Aitchison 15/12/1797 Selkirk, Selkirkshire
I find it fascinating - looking at your brother and nephew, I am guessing we are much of an age - and yet my Gx2 was born in 1795 and your Gx5 was both 1797. What a difference in generation gaps in different families. Very interesting! My other Gx2 was born 1820 - - their children, my Gx1 maternal grandparents - he was late in a long family and she was eldest in a long family.
My Gx1 grandmother (different one) Blanche Buckingham Percy was born in Kingsbridge Devon in 1851.
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A 1st cousin, twice removed; John Pain Prangnell born 1902 in London, son of John and Louisa Hannah (nee Pain). He married Dorothy Wren in 1926. In 1950s John was a JP and Chairman of Whitstable Council. There were no children and he died in 1972.
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16th December 1914 my great-great uncle Robert Jaffray died in Toronto aged 82. He was born in Bannockburn, near Stirling, second son of a small tenant farmer, so had to leave home to make his way in the world. He must have had something about him, as he started as an assistant in a grocer's shop but worked his way up, emigrating to Canada and eventually becoming a successful businessman, with an interest in many of the big companies, and was also publisher of the Toronto Globe newspaper. He became a Canadian Senator.
What's really strange is that no-one in my family in the UK told me this. He's mentioned in one document as the Hon Robert Jaffray, but with no explanation - and it took a while for me to find it all out. I'm very proud of his achievement, rising from such humble beginnings.
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OOps nearly forgot. ::) Only 3 today.
John Lightfoote my 7 x g.g.uncle was baptised in Holme Cultram in 1690
Lucy Collett my 3 x g.g.aunt was buried in Stradbroke, Suffolk in 1781
But most importantly, it is the 2nd birthday of my youngest (and probably last of 14) grandchildren. She is the daughter of my youngest son who had his birthday yesterday.
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According to "The Tree", a very large document put together in about 1856 ...
17/12/1679, my ancestor Robert Tatham married Grace Barrow (- possibly a "Friends" marriage?) ... at Hawkshead, Lancs. That's 333 years ago - and The Tree goes back to "about 1580".
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My great grandmother Alice Smith was born in Plaistow on the 17th December 1865. She married my great grandfather Thomas Howell and they had 7 children, the eldest being my grandmother. On the 21 June 1898, along with about 30,000 others, Thomas and Alice went to watch the launch of HMS Albion on the Thames. Because of the width of the river, the ship was launched sideways into the water. This caused a huge backwash of water and Alice and Thomas, with hundreds of others were thrown from a walkway into the Thames. 32 people drowned, but many were rescued. Thomas pulled a woman whom he thought was Alice from the water, but it turned out to be a stranger. Alice was rescued but died a week after the disaster on 29th June - cause of death pneumonia and pleurisy. She left Thomas with the 7 children ranging in age from 15 to 4. Her name is on the HMS Albion memorial at the East London Cemetery.
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What terrible luck for you G grandmother and all the others who died - and for the families who were left. :'(
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I arrived in Australia from the UK,1976 the best day of my life (well almost) & never a moment of regret.
Trish
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I keep forgetting these!
5g Uncle William Cowe b 17/12/1799 at Hutton, Berwickshire son of David & Helen Cowe nee Sharp married Mary Learmonth at the Marriage House, Coldstream Bridge, Berwickshire.
1st Cousin 4 x R Thomas Herbert son of Andrew & Jessie Herbert nee Sherrif married Isabella Melrose at Melrose, Roxburghshire.
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No close ancestors today, but I've these people in my tree.
William Cawthorn my 3 x g.g.uncle baptised in Pinchbeck, Lincs in 1796
Thomas Lank my 4 x g.g.uncle baptised in Little Bytham, Stantham, Lincs in 1746
Alice Ann Brand my 1st cousin twice removed died in Blackpool in 1950
Francis Howard my husband’s 2 x g.g.aunt died in Liverpool in 1906
George Stephen Carter married Mary Connor in 1875 – my g.aunt’s in-laws ::)
James Purchon and Mary Jane Mumby my g.g.aunt & uncle married 1862
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Quite a few today 18 December, some more obscure than others.
Catherine Gilchrist my 3 x g.g.aunt was born in Boston, Lincs in 1812
Lucy Collett my first cousin 3 times removed was baptised in 1836 in Ilketshall St Andrew, Suffolk
Charles Hugh Dawson my OH’s great uncle was baptised in 1870 in Manchester
Thomas Dameron my 10 x g.g.uncle was baptised in 1547 in Westerfield, Ipswich
Elizabeth Gaunt my 1st cousin 4 times removed was baptised in 1787 in Penistone, Yorkshire
John Collett my 7 x g.g.uncle died in 1629 in Westerfield, Ipswich
Mary Gilchrist my 1st cousin 4 times removed died in 1913 in Boston, Lincs.
John Gilchrist and Ann Graves my 3 x g.grandparents married in Boston, Lincs in 1829
Benjamin William Heaton & Mary Alice Howarth my OH’s g.grandparents married in Bradford, Manchester in 1865
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5g grandparents George Falconer & Beatrice Mack m 18/12/1779 at Bunkle and Preston, Berwickshire. George was the son of John & Margaret Falconer nee Hay and Beatrice the daughter of John & Jean Mack nee Fish.
1st Cousins 5 x R Alexander Hastie & Isobel Hastie m 18/12/1846 Duns, Berwickshire. Alexander & Isobel were cousins. He was the son of Thomas & Esther Hastie nee Hoy and she was the daughter of Philip & Janet Hastie nee Mann. Thomas & Philip being brothers.
1st Cousin 3 x R Agnes Taylor b 18/12/1859 Hawick, Roxburghshire, daughter of Robert & Helen Taylor nee Scott.
2nd Cousin 4 x R William C Hastie b 18/12/1854 Bath, Albany, NY, son of Alexander B & Georgina Hastie nee Virtue. William was born shortly after the family arrived in America. William wrote a lot about his family and life in Scotch Ridge, Warren County Iowa, so have loads of info on this family.
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I've had a few days with nobody to mention here and then I almost missed today's ancestor.
Born in 1763, Spennithorne, North Riding of Yorkshire Michael Favell, my 6 x great uncle.
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19/12/1867, in Parramatta NSW, death of Elizabeth Thearle nee Prestage, one of my 3x gt grandmothers.
19/12/1900, in Colyton NSW, death of James R Thearle, Elizabeth's husband and one of my 3x gt grandfathers.
Never noticed that, before! They died on the same date, 33 years apart~!
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On this day in 19 . . . . my brother was born!
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Had he still been alive my dad would have turned 85 today.
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My 2xgt. uncle Henry Barham born in 1839 in Honeysuckle Court, Cripplegate (sounds such a pretty address!); son of Francis James and Isabella (nee Bailey). Henry was a locksmith/cutler, married Louisa Webster in 1860, they had at least 6 children, moved south of the river at some stage and he died, I think, in 1915 in Camberwell.
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My 5g Aunt Margaret Falconer, daughter of George & Beatrice Falconer nee Mack married James Miller 19/12/1815 Duns, Berwickshire.
1st Cousin 5 x R James Cowe b 19/12/1824 b Allerdean, Northumberland, son of James & Mary Cowe nee Learmonth.
2nd Cousin * Compton married * Cachet 19/12/1973 Nanaimo, Vancouver.
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HMS Neptune Leander Class Light Cruiser sunk by mines off Tripoli. 19/12/1941
Leading stoker Robert Scrine (cousin) (Holt , Wiltshire) among the 766 casualties. There was only one survivor.
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My Beloved Nan
Died 19 December 1981,aged 88
Her Funeral was Christmas Eve :'( :'( :'(
She was a remarkable Lady who,among other things ,travelled with her Husband & 5 year old daughter from Sussex To York in 1921 to get my Mum,who was 2 days,to give a Loving Home.
Nan was Widowed at just before her 35th birthday & never married again.
I did`nt know until my Mum died in 1985 she had been Fostered/Adopted.
Thanks for everything,Nan
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Sarah Collett my 2nd cousin twice removed was born in Maradabad, India in 1862
Arabella Charlotte Mumby my 2nd g.g.aunt was baptised in Boston, Lincs in 1825
Mary Benson my 5 x g.g.aunt was baptised in Holme Cultram, Cumberland in 1747
John Benson my 2 x g.grandfather died in Hull, Yorkshire in 1904. John is definitely my 2 x g.grandfather, but the people he lists as his parents, are possibly actually his grandparents. Unfortunately, as he was born about 1834, there is no birth certificate to prove this. However, unlike the other children of his “parents” he doesn’t appear to have been baptised – I’ve searched the parish records myself backwards and forwards. I think the person who was supposed to be his eldest sister was probably his mother. He also had a younger brother, who was baptised, but on the 1851 census he was living with another “sister” and listed as her nephew! As all the brothers were too young to be parents of children born in 1834 and 1837 (but again unfortunately pre GRO records) that only leaves the eldest daughter who died in 1837 as the mother.
William de Tregoz my 24 x g.grandfather died in Billingford, Norfolk in 1174
William Collett and Mary Ann Dye my 2 x g.grandparents married in Great Poringland, Norfolk in 1837. He was a widower at the time of his marriage, but it’s possible that he had been married twice before the 1837 marriage as when he married in 1817, aged 24 the parish records show he was a widower, but no record of an earlier marriage has been found.
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On the 20/12/1873, the brother of my gt gt grandmother apparently married for the third time, at St Mary Haggerstone, MSX. I'm sure it's him, because of his unusual name - Charles Dalbiac Wildey Dixon. You wouldn't think there could be two of them, would you? This third wife was born Margaret Murray, who is a bit of a mystery.
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Charles Lenton Gilchrist my 1st cousin 4 times removed was baptised in Boston, Lincs in 1826
Sarah Tubbs my 4 x g.g.aunt was baptised in Haddenham, Cambridgeshire in 1755
John Spraggett my husband’s 3 x g.g.uncle was baptised in Leamington Hastings, Warwickshire in 1788
John Gill my g.g.uncle died in Leek, Staffordshire in 1895
John Stanton my 4 x g.grandfather died in Heckington, Lincs in 1850
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Three today!
My 2xgt uncle John Hutcheson Pain, born 1827 in Woolwich; son of John and Elizabeth Pain. He married Mary Ann Allen in 1852. He was a waterman/lighterman; appears on the Captain's Register at Lloyds and then....................... a mystery!
My gt.gt. aunt, Eva Annie Pain, born 1867 in Woolwich; daughter of Charles George and Mary Jane (nee Ottley). She married William Sherren in 1896 and they had one child, Laura Eva, in 1903. Eva died in 1921 in Plumstead.
My 3rd son arrived, a few weeks ahead of schedule, in 1976 in Porthcawl, Wales.
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4g Uncle James Herbert, son of Thomas & Mary Herbert nee Tait married Jane Hall 20/12/1861, Kelso, Roxburghshire.
3rd Cousin 3 x R Margaret Taylor Scrimegour b 20/12/1893
2nd Cousin 4 x R Ella Hay m Charles McMillan 20/12/1894 York County NB. She was the daughter of Aaron & Annie Hay nee Cowe.
** Walbridge wife of ** Freeman (my 6th Cousin) was b 20/12/1963 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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Herbert Arthur Stubbs born today, 1892. He was a grandson of the father of my Great Aunt Lizzies husband .... work that one out ! But his father (John James Stubbs) had emigrated to Canada in 1888; followed by G A Lizzies husband to be, George Stubbs, from Manchester. Nothing extra-ordinary there .... except that Herbert decided to join the Canadian army in WW1, and was killed in the Somme in 1916. My grand-daughter went on a school trip to the war-graves, and managed to find his grave, so although he is really no relative or ancestor, I feel I know quite a bit about him.
More details next October, on the anniversary of his death !
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Lydart - Each time you mention Stubbs I remember there was a Frank Stubbs (1875-1950) who married my 1st cousin once removed Alice Pemberton in 1895. Frank Stubbs and his ancestors came from Cheshire, but some of them might have gone to Manchester.
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Philip Simons Picot married Marjorie Putnam in St Jude's, Kensington, 20th December 1912. He had served in the army and then been a student at Camborne School of Mines. He re-enlisted for the First World War and was killed at Gallipoli: ; the officer commanding, Lieut.-Col. Wilson (who had been invalided) wrote to Lieut.-Col. Picot, his father: 'Your son was a gallant officer; and quite fearless.'
Those who remained of the regiment (only two hundred) were safely got under shelter at Helles by Captain Picot, he then went back alone to try and save some wounded who were under fire; he did not return, and was found shot through the head in a very exposed traverse. He led attacks on Turkish trenches for a period of eight days, repulsing nightly attacks by the Turks. He laid down his life for his men.'
Very little of his effects were returned: his father wrote about some items of family value, a gold watch and an engraved revolver, but the officer who replied explained that as he had been buried by strangers, nothing was known.
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1st Cousin 5 x R David Cowe b 21/12/1826 Hutton, Berwickshire, son of Robert & Anne Cowe nee Crosby
1st Cousin 4 x R Agnes Moodie b 21/12/1835 Lilliesleaf, Roxburghshire daughter of Thomas & Agnes Moodie nee Burn.
1st Cousin 4 x R Mary Hastie Halliburton b 21/12/1837 Yarrow, Selkirkshire, daughter of James & Isabella Halliburton nee Hastie. She married William Scrimgeour.
1st Cousin 3 x R Robert Johnstone Borthwick b 21/12/1857 Morven, Argyll, son of William & Jane Borthwick nee Crozier.
3rd Cousin 3 x R Clark Andrew Hastie son of Philip & Johanna Hastie nee Kennedy m Violet D Gower 21/12/1910 Fowler, California.
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I have two today.
December 21st 1856, my 4 x great grandfather, William Daniel, died in Cruden, Aberdeenshire.
December 21st 1917, James Frost died in Middlesbrough. he was the first husband of my maternal grandmother. He died, I believe, from the influenza which was responsible for killing millions worldwide during the following three years. His widow, then in her early twenties and with two young daughters, went on to marry Thomas Smith and to have four more children, the second of whom was my mum!
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Nearly forgot ::)
David Boyers & Catherine Gilchrist my 3 x g.aunt married in 1847 in Boston, Lincs
William John Brand Lynch my first cousin twice removed and Nellie Leach married in Hulme, Manchester in 1915. When I found this marriage, I realised who the Nellie Lynch was my mum was always talking about. William was my grandfather’s cousin and, presumably because they all lived fairly close to each other even after marriage, the cousins and subsequently their children all kept in touch with each other until they grew very old. Many of the names of people my mum spoke about have turned out to be relatives or married to relatives, whereas I had assumed they were just friends.
Robert Harper and Sarah Wilding my husband’s 5 x g.grandparents married in Ormskirk, Lancashire in 1766
John Christian George Collett my 2nd cousin twice removed was born in Fort William, Calcutta, India in 1864
Stamford Smith my 2nd cousin once removed's wife's brother was born in Hull in 1902 – does he count?
Thomas Phillips Boyers my 1st cousin 4 times removed died in Ardwick, Manchester in 1901. He was the son of David Boyers and Catherine Gilchrist who married on this day in 1847. He was 48 and his death was due to chronic alcoholism. I seem to have a few of those in my family tree.!!
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John William Cockett my great uncle was born in Manchester in 1868
Jane Stanton my 2 x g.g.aunt was baptised in Pinchbeck, Lincs in 1829
Thomas Burton the husband of my 1st cousin 5 times removed was baptised in 1815 in Pinchbeck, Lincs. Not an ancestor at all really. ::)
Ann Middleton my 3 x g.g.aunt was baptised in Millom Cumberland in 1804, she died aged nearly 5 and is buried in the same church as she was baptised.
Mary Benson my 5 x g.g.aunt was baptised in Holme Cultram, Cumberland in 1774
Alice Randal my 5 x g.g.grandmother was buried in Crowland, Lincolnshire in 1749. I don’t know if the death had anything to do with childbirth, as she had a child in August 1749 who died in September 1749, or whether it was some other illness.
Betty Postlethwaite my 4 x g.g aunt was buried in Dalton in Furness, Lancashire in 1824.
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December 22nd 1805, James Chrichton was born in Methlick, Aberdeenshire. My 4 x great uncle.
Life is becoming hectic round here, I keep almost missing these anniversaries. None tomorrow but then something every day until the end of the year......
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December 22nd 1919 my late mum was born.............
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23 December 1880 in Launceston Tasmania my Grandmother, Evelyn Sarah Gaunt was born.
23 December 1764 in Lillington, Warwickshire, my Gx4 grandfather, Edward Kimberley, was born. He took/was sent on a free trip to Port Jackson in 1788 with the first fleet (though he was almost at the end of his sentence for nicking some cloth) and soon married a woman who arrived in similar circumstances on the second fleet. They were sent to Norfolk Island where they started their family of 12 children. They later went to Tasmania where Edward became a 'beef baron' supplying the Gov't stores with beef and thus becoming quite a wealthy landowner and 'pillar of society'!! ;D ;D
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3g Uncle b 23/12/1812 Jedburgh, son of John & Sarah Young Nee Dixon.
4g Aunt Janet Burn b 23/12/1814 Lilliesleaf, Roxburghshire, daughter of James & Janet Burn nee Davidson.
4 g Aunt Helen Burn b 23/12/1816 Lilliesleaf, Roxburghshire, daughter of James & Janet Burn nee Davidson
3 g grandmother Margaret Myles Turnbull b 23/12/1827 Eddleston, Peebles daughter of Andrew & Isabella Turnbull nee Brydon.
And last but not definately not least my lovely cousin and her son d today 23/12/2012 in a road accident.
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And last but not definately not least my lovely cousin and her son d today 23/12/2012 in a road accident.
Oh no. That is so very sad. I can't begin to imagine how you must be feeling today. I am so sorry.
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24/12/1899, my grandmother Mary Sophia Morgan Mitchell born in Anstruther, Fife to Archibald Mitchell and his wife Agnes Morgan.
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I know I shall struggle to be around tomorrow and on Christmas Day, so here are my entries for those days.
December 24th 1776, Grace Crossland was baptised, Spennithorne. My 6 x great aunt.
December 24th 1949, Fanny Cant, nee Lazenby, died in Hull. She was the wife of my 1st cousin 3 times removed so pretty distant in terms of relationship. But I have a fondness for her because I grew up in Lazenby so that's enough of a link for me.
December 25th 1853. William Smith married Sarah Walker ( nee Bushby). Sarah's firts husband, John Walker, had died at a very early age. It took me an age to find William and Sarah's marriage. It was in Stockton Register Office on Christmas Day! I have a suspicion they were cousins. haven't been able to prove it but Sarah's mother was a Smith and I just have a feeling that her family is linked with William's somewhere along the line. Proving it is not easy!
December 25th 1898, Walter Bert Cant was born in Brightlingsea, Essex. My second cousin twice removed.
I should make it in on Boxing Day for the next instalment......
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24th Dec 1915 Margaret Lilian Towler was born, my mother, died six moths short of being 90.
Also my father died in 1995 on this day.
Miss them both very much, they would have approved very much of RootsChat as they were always trying to give me snippits of family history. Unfortunately i didn't appreciate it at the time. Somethings must have stuck though.....
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Yesterday 23rd and today 24th, then on Boxing Day (if I have time), I'll post Christmas Day and Boxing Day ancestors events.
23 Dec
Nellie Hobson, my 1st cousin twice removed was born in Manchester in 1889. She was the 2nd daughter of my g.g.uncle’s 2nd marriage.
Hannah Whittaker my husband’s 2 x g.g.aunt was baptised in Heaton Norris in 1814. Unusually for the time she was 3 months old at the time of her baptism. No siblings baptised the same day.
William Luckorish my husband’s 5 x g.g.uncle was baptised in Leamington Hastings, Warwickshire in 1733
Jonathan Middleton my 3 x g.grandfather died in Millom, Cumberland in 1876. His cause of death was Hemiplegia 11 months, the last attack 3 days. I’m not sure how you can have an attack of hemiplegia after you’ve already had it for 11 months. I wonder if he suffered from TIAs (mini strokes) and then had a real one 3 days before he died. I guess it is very cold in Millom in December, or at least in 1876 as he wasn’t buried until 7 January 1877.
Agnes Benson (nee Postlethwaite) my 3 x g.grandmother died in Ireleth, Dalton in Furness, Lancashire in 1843 from Organic Disease of the Stomach. I wonder if this was cancer.
Minnie Whittaker (nee Hardy) died in Denton, Lancashire in 1946 from Ca Stomach.
John Meanwell was buried in Leake, Lincs in 1897. Not an ancestor at all. He was the 2nd husband of my 2 x g.grandfather’s 2nd wife. ???
Edwin Beech my husband’s great great uncle married Martha Ann Stopford in Audenshaw, Lancashire, in
1894
Lizzie Olive Priest my 3rd cousin once removed married Arthur Black in Endcliffe, Sheffield in 1926
24 Dec
Maud Ellen Cockett my g.aunt and Henry Shalless married in Collyhurst, Manchester in 1905
George Reuben Purchon my 2nd cousin once removed and Elizabeth Mulholland married in Hull in 1912
James Hobson my 2 x g.g uncle was born in Denby, Yorkshire in 1806 but not baptised until July 1807.
William H Pemberton My g.g.uncle was born in Kingsley, Cheshire in 1854
John Pemberton my first cousin twice removed was born in Kingsley, Cheshire in 1870
Joseph Pemberton my first cousin 4 times removed was born in Canterbury, Kent in 1815
(Was March the only time the Pemberton couples saw each other??)
Jane Peat my 7 x g.grandmother was baptised in Holme Cultram, Cumberland in 1679
Minnie Gertrude Whittaker (nee Heaton) my husband’s grandmother died in Sale, Cheshire in 1954. According to my husband’s half brother, this lady moved in with my in-laws and lived there for a few years, which is why my husband’s half brother moved out when he was 18 (my OH would have been 7 at the time). For some unknown reason my OH doesn’t remember her at all despite her living with the family until she died when my OH was 11. From family accounts, she was very overweight and disabled, so maybe she stayed in her bedroom. I can’t imagine any child aged 7-11 not remembering a gran who lived with them. She was his mother’s mother and she was so strange I can imagine she hid her mother in a bedroom away from everyone.
Henry Collett my 2 x g.g.uncle was buried in Mettingham in Suffolk in 1854
John Stanton my 4 x g.grandfather was buried in Heckington, Lincs in 1850. He was 80 and died of old age.
And most important of all my youngest grandson was born this day in 2006. Happy Birthday Leo.
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My g g grandparents were married on 24th December 1821 in Fintry, Stirlingshire. Hugh Dobbie, farmer of Touchmollar, and Christian Sinclair went on to have ten children.
Coincidentally another set of my g g grandparents, John Evans, manager of Dowlais ironworks, and Mary Richards, were married the following day in Merthyr Tydfil and they, too, had ten children.
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I missed one on the 20th December :'(
Marriage of William Stubbs to Elizabeth Walmsley, St Johns Church, Manchester, in 1857.
They were the parents of George Walmsley Stubbs who went to Canada where he met my Great Aunt Lizzie and married her in Carberry, Manitoba in 1899.
I have more Stubbs for tomorrow ....
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24th December 1910 ... OH's father was born ..
It must have been a very bitter-sweet occasion for the parents
... three siblings had already been born and died
... one of them on the previous Christmas Eve aged 15 months.
eadaoin
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2g Aunt Catherine Young b 24/12/1849 Hawick, daughter of William & Margaret Young nee Fairbairn.
1st Cousin 5 x R James Redpath Falconer, son of George & Janet Falconer nee Redpath m Margaret Cantwell 24/12/1891 Lucknow, Bruce County Ontario.
2g Uncle John Hastie son of William & Margaret Hastie nee Cowe m Isabella Robertson 24/12/1897 Harpertoun, Kelso.
1st Cousin 4 x R Andrew James Hall Mason b 24/12/1860 Stranraer, Wigtownshire son of James & Elizabeth Mason nee Hall.
Christmas Day
9 g Uncle William Cockburn b 25/12/1652 Haddington, East Lothian, son of Patrick & Margaret Cockburn nee Cranshaw.
Wife of 2nd Cousin 4 x R Johanna Kennedy b 25/12/1856 Des Moines, Iowa.
2nd Cousin 4 x R Esther Hastie b 25/12/1864 Cockburnspath, daughter of John & Isabella Hastie nee Nelson
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There are quite a few people in my tree with significant dates today BUT I'd like to remember particularly my gran, who was born on 24 December 1887. She's special because I have vivid memories of my parents telling me how very like her I was..... that's when they weren't telling me how evil she was ::)
Very muddled memories of her telling me how she was engaged to a diplomat who went to Canada ( think she may have been engaged to someone who went to Canada but pretty sure he wasn't a diplomat) and her mother didn't approve so hid his letters and when she gave up and married the man of mother's choice, she was given all his letters on her wedding day.
Gran was a rather bitter and unhappy lady....I think she deserves to be remembered fondly :)
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Gran was a rather bitter and unhappy lady.
Sounds as if she had every reason to be, fancy doing that and then giving her the letters on her wedding day. I wonder if they did it after she was actually married?
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People can be SO cruel .... :-\
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Three today:
3xgt. uncle Henry Christopher Kingsman, son of Edward and Susanna (nee Leviston), born in 1821 in London; sadly he died in June 1822.
3xgt. aunt Mary Bailey, born in London 1822; daughter of James and Hamutal (nee Page). Lost track of her after her baptism in March 1823 at St Luke, Old Street.
2xgt. aunt Rosa Rainer, born in 1870 in Plumstead; daughter of Edward and Charlotte (nee Henman). She married Arthur James Wells in 1897 and died in 1923.
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Unfortunately I seem to have quite a few deaths around Christmas:
Today, my great x 2 Grandmother Maria Elizabeth Hayward (formerly Penfold, nee Hoare) died in 1874. Her first marriage was into quite a rich family of solicitors and architects who designed some of the London churches. She had 2 daughters by her first husband who died when he was 25. Maria then married my great grandfather who was a gardener. I often wonder about the difference between the two men and how her life must have changed.
My uncle George Waters died today in 1986.
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Lots of marriages and baptisms today - very popular day, I understand! So only a sample...
My other gran, Alice Slade married Bert Virgin today 1916. Very proper she was so a weeny bit shocking that she lied about her age...... ::)
Great grandma Sarah Plank was baptised today 1836. She and all her sisters had their first child out of wedlock and married a year later - I've always been curious whether it was the same father......
GGG grandfather William Beer baptised today 1791 in Stockland, Devon. If anyone ever has the time and patience to help me sort out my Beers, I shall be very grateful. All called John, William, Benjamin, Mary, Anne or Grace and my goodness weren't there lots of families with that set of names in that area! There's another William Beer baptised today 1794 in Stockland - of course he COULD be my ggg grandfather :-\
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Born today, 1904 .... another of my Stubbs .... Irene Stubbs, second daughter of Great Aunt Lizzie (she who ran away to Canada in 1899 !) Irene was born in Saskatchewan, I suspect in or near Lloydminster. She died in 1995. Irene had four children, but apart from that, I know nothing about her, although I have very briefly met one of her children ! Think she'd be a first cousin once removed ...
Then there's another of my Foyles/Fripps group .... John Foyle, born today in 1777. Again, I know very little about him, except he was born in Witchampton, Dorset. Now Ancestry have Dorset parish records going back to the 1600's, I may find more. I really MUST get on with the Foyles and Fripps ! New years resolution, perhaps ??
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Good morning. I do hope everyone has had a peaceful and happy Christmas.
Today in 1919, my maternal grandparents, Thomas Henry Smith and Amelia Alice Frost ( nee Smith) were married in Middlesbrough. I've mentioned her before - her first husband died a few days ago in 1917 from flu.
But just look at the probelm it has given me. Two Smiths at the same time. My grandfather's line becomes very hazy just one generation back - his father was a John Smith from Sunderland and you can imagine how tricky that can be without other significant clues.
Amelia's father was also John Smith! But at least I have been able to work back a little further on that one because they were a rural family, so fewer choices within their village. I have often wondered whether they might be related in some way but so far, I have drawn a total blank on that idea. It is my challenge for next year.
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Died on this day (26/12/1964) in Marrickville NSW, Henry Leslie Delves, my OH's uncle.
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My 1st cousin 3 times removed, Thomas William Gandy, born 1862 in London, son of James and Rebecca (nee Barton). He was the nephew of George Gandy who is mentioned (as Gander the crossing sweeper) in Mayhew's account of the poor in London.
My 2nd cousin 1 removed, Mark Francis Ralph, born 1882 in London, son of Mark and Isabella (nee Read). He was a sawyer, married Fanny Annie Wiseman in Haggerston in 1906 and died in 1910 in Shoreditch leaving Fanny with a young son, Francis Thomas Ralph.
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My aunt Emily Katherine Bowen (nee Waters) died on this day in 1966. I've searched everywhere for her marriage, but cant find it, so I've come to the conclusion that she either never legally married or the records have been lost. Another case of I wish I'd asked those who might know when I had the chance.
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Arthur Groom, husband of my first cousin 3 times removed, Agnes Louisa Kate Cannings. was born 26 Dec 1878 in Queens Town, Willesden.
Remote I know but I though he deserved a mention in case he linked up with any of Jan's Grooms ;D
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I wondered that Angela - but mine came from Suffolk at that time, although a branch of the family did move to London later on.
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My aunt Ethel May Towler b 26 Dec 1913
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Christmas Day and Boxing Day
25 Dec
Baptisms
Seth Hobson my g.grandfather was baptised this day in Penistone, Yorkshire in 1848 aged 1.
Noah Hobson my g.g.uncle and brother of Seth was also baptised in 1848 aged 3.
Catherine Gilchrist my 3 x g.g.aunt was baptised in Frampton, Lincolnshire in 1812
James Crompton my husband’s 3 x g.grandfather was baptised in Prestwich, Lancashire in 1773
Marriages
Elizabeth Pemberton my g.g.aunt married her 2nd husband John Gill in Manchester in 1880
Mary Elizabeth Benson my g.aunt married George Carter in Hull in 1905
John Lockwood & Elizabeth Lomax my 3 x g.grandparents married in Huddersfield, Yorkshire in 1812
Mary Phillips Brand my g.g.aunt married George Hanley in Manchester in 1874
Deaths
Richard Whitaker my husband’s 2 x .g.grandfather died in Hyde, Cheshire in 1880
26 Dec
Baptisms
Samuel Collett my 5 x g.grandfather was baptised in Eye, Suffolk in 1700
Catherine Robinson my 4 x g.grandmother was baptised in Boston, Lincs in 1775
Edward Stanton my 5 x g.grandfather was baptised in Rippingale, Lincs in 1739
Joseph Benson my 1st cousin 3 times removed was baptisied in Dalton in Furness, Lancs in 1852
William Mutton my 4 x g.g.uncle was baptised in Thorney, Cambridge in 1743
Marriages
Elizabeth Jane Hobson, my g.aunt (Aunt Lizzie) married Walter Taylor in Manchester in 1892. He had been a live-in butcher’s assistant at my g.grandparents house/shop. Elizabeth and Walter had a child before marriage but Elizabeth’s father did not like Walter and refused to let them marry. Unfortunately, he died aged only 45 in January 1892 and Elizabeth and Walter married later that year. From what my mother told me, my g.grandfather was right in his opinion of Walter.
Tenant Stanton my 3 x g.g.uncle and Elizabeth Anderson married in Heckington, Lincs in 1832
Minnie Brand my 1st cousin twice removed married William Henry Gabriel in Harpurhey, Manchester in 1913
Elizabeth Dyke my husband’s 2 x g.g.aunt married William Sharman in Warwick in 1847
Deaths
Charles Gilchrist my 3 x g.g.uncle died in Boston, Lincs in 1867
Burials
Agnes Benson (nee Postlethwaite) was buried in Dalton in Furness, Lancs in 1843
Charles Henry Dawson Cockett my 2nd cousin once removed was buried in Lincoln in 1902
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I'm about to go away for several days so here are my entries for the end of the year.
December 27th 1844, Henry Burgess Bushby, born Thirsk, North Riding. My 1st cousin, 3 x removed.
December 28th
1827 - James Chrichton was born in Linmay, Aberdeenshire. 1st cousin, 4 x removed.
1895 - Gertrude Cant - born Sculcoates, Hull. 2nd cousin, 2 x removed.
December 29th
1715, Luke Lonsdale married Margaret Lonsdale in Whixley, N. Riding. My 7 x great grandparents. They weren't first cousins, that much I do know because I have their parents and grandparents. But they must be related somehow.
1819 - Matthew Iley married Ellen Cunion in Hornby by Bedale, N.Riding. My 3 x great grandparents. Ellen Cunion is one of my big brick walls. She died before the 1841 census and I can find very little evidence of her existence apart from her marriage. I believe her parents were Joseph Cunion and Margaret Jones but there is an element of speculation involved here.
December 30th
1892 - Francis Gavin married Margaret Mary Isabella Daniel in Cruden, Aberdeenshire. 2x great uncle and aunt.
1970 - This was the day I was married, at the tender age of nineteen. The marriage only lasted sixteen years but we have two lovely daughters and we remain on reasonably friendly terms with each other.
December 31st
1773 - Marshall Turner was born in Tillingham, Essex - A 1st cousin, 7 x removed.
1782 - George Rae married Elspeth Turner in Aberdeenshire. 6 x great uncle and aunt
1895. Peter Grant Raitt married Jane Milne in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. My great grandparents. I never met them because, when I was a child, we had no car and Aberdeen seemed like the end of the world. But I have photographs of them and I wave whenever I drive past their house which stands near The Bridge of Dee. I do feel as if I knew them.
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Betsey Naomi Mumby my g.g.aunt died of TB aged 15 in Hull in 1871
Mary Elizabeth Carter my 1st cousin once removed died aged 1 year of acute bronchitis in Hull in 1907
Peter Pemberton and Elizabeth (Betsy) Woodward my 2 x g.grandparents married in Frodsham, Cheshire in 1832
Joseph Pemberton and Phebey Hall my 5 x g.grandparents married in Gt.Budworth, Cheshire in 1745. Joseph and Phebey were the great grandparents of Peter Pemberton above.
Thomas Postlethwaite and Elizabeth Postlethwaite married in Aldingham, Lancs in 1784. Despite sharing their surname, I cannot find any connection between Thomas and Elizabeth until they married each other. Strangely his mother was also called Postlethwaite before marrying a Postlethwaite. I know it was a common name in Lancashire, so I suppose it could be coincidence. I need to draw out a large tree and see if I can connect them all somehow.
William Manton and Mary Lines my husband’s 5 x g.grandparents married in Long Itchington, Warks in 1752
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Just a quick request. Please could someone start a new thread "On this day in January", when the time comes. I shan't be here to do it, so would be very grateful.
Many thanks and Happy New Year to all of you.
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Hannah, the second wife of my 4-g-grandfather Thomas Simons, died at Eton in Buckinghamshire on 27th December 1783.
Christian Jaffray, née Dobbie, my great-grandmother, died 27th December 1913 at Kames Farm, Cambusbarron, Stirlingshire.
Janet Jaffray, my first cousin once removed, married James Smith Wood on 27th December 1887 in Elkhorn, Manitoba. She was born in Bannockburn, Stirlingshire. She spent her childhood in Ontario and moved with her family to Kildonan, Manitoba. After her marriage she moved to Elkhorn and then Oakville. She helped organize the first local of the women’s section of the Manitoba Grain Growers’ Association in 1915 and became second president of the provincial organization in 1919, when it was known as the United Farm Women of Manitoba. She served in that capacity until 1922. She received an honorary diploma from the University of Manitoba in 1931.
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My 2nd cousin 1 removed, Joshua Henry Barham, born in Southwark in 1895; son of Joshua and Margaret Eliza (nee Marsh). He married Maud Mortimer in 1920 and died in 1984 in Kent. During WW2 he was an ARP and was awarded the George Medal, which is now held at the Imperial War Museum. Some years ago I managed to visit the museum and arranged to view the medal and the file about Joshua.
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John Collett my 2nd cousin twice removed was baptised in Ilketshall St Andrew, Suffolk in 1867
Elizabeth Ann Stanton my 1st cousin 4 times removed was baptised in Heckington, Lincs in 1828
Jonathan Middleton my 1st cousin 3 times removed was baptised in Millom, Cumberland in 1868. Jonathan was the first illegitimate child of his mother. Two of her aunts on her father’s side had illegitimate children, as did her own mother who had 3 illegitimate children before marrying her father. Obviously not a lot to do in Millom. ::)
Alice Eliza Benson (nee Pocock) previously Smith, my g.uncle’s wife died in Rochford, Essex in 1959. She had been married previously to a Mr Smith who died and in 1914 there was an application for her two youngest children to be admitted to an orphanage. Fortunately, she married my g.uncle in 1915 and he became stepfather to her children. Apparently my g.uncle was known as Daddy 2 and the marriage was much happier than her first one.
Harold Foulkes Rowland my 2nd cousin once removed died in Cheshire in 1994
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Elizabeth Flowers, born this day, 1760.
She married into my Wiltshire Vincents in 1789. I know absolutely nothing about her except her name and several dates ! Poor woman is of absolutely no consequence !! :D
BUT, having married Thomas Vincent, she produced the required number of children, and down the line we have Bettey Vincent, who married one of my Ambrose Trowbridges, which gets my family history onto firmer footing !
So she played her part .... thank you, Elizabeth Flowers !
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She married into my Wiltshire Vincents in 1789. I know absolutely nothing about her except her name and several dates ! Poor woman is of absolutely no consequence !! :D
I've got some like that too.
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My 1st cousin 4x removed, Henry Ware, born in Burghfield, Berkshire in 1839; son of Edward and Ann (nee Chandler). Sadly Henry died 3 February 1840.
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Just a year too soon to make it to the census :-\
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Christian Dobbie, nee Sinclair, my g-g grandmother, died 29th December 1871 and is buried in the lair she acquired the previous year in St Ninian's churchyard, Stirling.
The wonderfully-named Orceneth Asbury Fisher, Methodist minister and husband of my 1st cousin 3 times removed Mary Susan Simons, died 29th December 1884 in Utopia, Texas.
Jean Heugh, my g-g-g-aunt, married George Walker in Airth, Stirlingshire, on 29th December 1828. Sadly I know next to nothing more about either of them.
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My ggg grandmother, Mary Marks, was baptised on this day 1816 in Merriott, Somerset. She married my ggg grandfather Daniel Willmott on September 1836, just in time of the arrival of their daughter Louisa. Unfortunately, Louisa only lived a month or so. Mary's death certificate from 1891 records 'senile decay many years', like most of my relatives on that side of the family.... bit worrying, that :-\
My Great gran's brother, George Abbott, finished his military tour of duty in Malta on 20 Dec 1897. after which he and his regiment were in India for 9 years. He seems to have had a varied life and never married. Family rumour said he was a mountie in Canada, but the nearest I can find to that is his service with the Military Foot Police - not quite the same thing, I think!
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Joseph Bayldon my 5 x g.grandfather was born in Yorkshire in 1696
Emma Dawson (nee Connor) my husband’s g.grandmother was born in Manchester in 1851
John Howard my husband’s 4 x g.grandfather and g.grandfather of Emma above was born in Liverpool in 1767
Lucy Bayldon my 4 x g.g.aunt and daughter of Joseph above was baptised in Almondbury, Yorkshire in 1742
Clement Tubbs my 3 x g.g.uncle was baptised in Haddenham, Cambridgeshire in 1788
Elizabeth Postlethwaite my 3 x g.g.aunt was baptised in Aldingham, Lancs in 1787
George Dyke my husband’s 4 x g.g.uncle was baptised in Hatton, Warks in 1779
Mary Anne Spraggett my husband’s 3 x g.g.aunt was baptised in Leamington Hastings, Warks in 1790
Maud Ellen Cockett my g.aunt died in Manchester in 1958. I met her a few times (I was almost 18 when she died) and it was Aunt Maud who gave us the photograph of her mother taken when she was about 12/14 around 1860.
Susanna Dye my 3 x g.g.aunt was buried in Newton Flotman, Norfolk in 1789
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Missed some.
26/12
1st Cousin 5 x R Beatrix Spark chr 24/12/1827 Coldingham, Berwickshire, daughter of Alexander & Helen Spark nee Falconer.
1st Cousin 5 x R Alison Brown b 26/12/1825 Peebles, daughter of John & Helen Brown nee Gilchrist.
3g Grandmother Sarah Hall b 26/12/1830 Inch, Wigtownshire, daughter of Andrew & Sarah Hall nee Broll/Brawl (My Irish Line)
1st Cousin 5 x R William Douglas b 26/12/1830 Selkirk, son of William & Christian Douglas nee Johnstone.
2g Uncle James Screen b 26/12/1873 Ladhope, Roxburghshire, son of John & Isabella Screen nee Lamb
27/12
3g Uncle Robert Gilchrist b 27/12/1840 Traquair, Peebles, son of John & Elizabeth Gilchrist nee Brunton
3g Uncle John Combe, son of Francis & Elizabeth Combe nee randell, m Margaret Graham 27/12/1848 Hawick Roxburghshire.
1st Cousin 5 x R Christian Hastie, daughter of Philip & Janet Hastie nee Mann m James Bell 27/12/1850, at Drakemuir, Duns.
28/12 NONE
29/12
5g grandfather Peter (Patrick) Hastie son of Peter (Patrick) & Isabella Hastie nee Johnston m Isabella Fletcher 29/12/1769 Yarrow, Selkirkshire
3 g Uncle Stewart Young b 29/12/1822 Earlston, son of John & Sarah Young nee Dixon.
3g Uncle George Young b29/12/1826 " " " " " " " Twin
3g Uncle James Young b 29/12/1826 " " " " " " " Twin
1st Cousin 5 x R Esther Hastie daughter of Thomas & Esther Hastie nee Hoy m Andrew Forrest 29/12/1836 Duns, Berwickshire
1st Cousin 4 x R Margaret Downie Cowe b 29/12/1865 Duns, Berwickshire daughter of Ebeneezer & Jane Cowe nee Scott
2 g Grandfather m 2nd wife Catherine Irvine 29/12/1871 Teviothead, Hawick....1st wife Margaret Buckham is my line.
3rd Cousin 3 x R Thomas Jefferson Runciman son of John W & Elizabeth Runciman nee Morgan m Florence Whitcombe 29/12/1912 Iowa.
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Two today:
My 1st cousin 5 x removed, Thomas William Kingsman, born in 1828 in Newington, Surrey, son of William John and Frances (nee Jones). He was a carpenter, married Ann Young in 1851 and died in1906.
My 2gt grandfather, Edward George, born in 1844 in Shepherds Bush, London, son of Edward and Eliza (nee Smith). He married Sophia Thorn in 1872 in Isleworth. I have found 2 children for them; my gt.grandmother Annie and her brother, William, who died as an infant. After 1881 census I can find neither Edward nor Sophia.
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Samuel Collett my 4 x g.grandfather was baptised in Wilby, Suffolk in 1734
Margaret Woodward my 1st cousin 4 times removed was baptised in Frodsham, Cheshire in 1821
John Hobson and Hannah Lockwood my 2 x g.g.aunt and uncle married in 1819
Mary Ann Collett (nee Dye) my 2 x g.grandmother died in Halesworth, Suffolk in 1870 aged 53. Bizarrely she died from a haemorrhage caused by the bursting of a varicose vein in her leg. A few years ago a near neighbour also had a haemorrhage caused by the bursting of a varicose vein in her leg. She didn’t die though, she was taken to the local hospital and treated and was home again within a few days.
Ann Jane Cummings my 1st cousin twice removed died in Glasgow in 1933
Charles Gilchrist my 3 x g.g.uncle was buried in Boston, Lincs in 1867 4 days after his death.
Richard Whittaker my husband’s 2 x g.grandfather was buried in Denton, Lancs in 1880, 5 days after his death on Christmas Day.
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My gggg grandfather John Beer's older brother Benjamin(can't cope with great grand uncles...) was married on 30 Dec 1777. His father, and his grandfather for that matter, was responsible for having vast swathes of sons who all gave their children the same names. I've mentioned my nightmare Beers before ::)
Then there's ggg grandfather Samuel Rogers' younger brother John baptised this day 1792 - he only lived a couple of years :'(
Great aunt Olive Bishop nee Slade was buried at Chewton Mendip on 30 Dec 1989
Then we start getting more remote so I'll only mention Mary Jane Weeks, 1st cousin twice removed, who was baptised in Charlton St Peter, Wiltshire on 30 Dec 1856. I lose track of her after 1891 so don't know if she married a wee bit late or died......
So many of my tree are just names and a few dates - one of the problems of being poor and illiterate, I suppose - history doesn't really see them as worth recording......
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James Foyle (yes, one of my Fripps/Freeps/Foil/Foyle group) .... born this day in 1770, in Witchampton, Dorset. I know absolutely nothing about him, except that his sister Sarah married into the Fripp/Freep family, and his brother Joseph married Ann/Hannah Friggle/Triggle, and then a second wife Bettey Vincent, whose second husband was one of my four Ambrose Trowbridges !
Clear as mud ? Yes I know ..... that's why this group are one of my new years resolutions .... to sort them out !
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New Years Eve
Harold Lynch my g.g.uncle was born in Manchester in 1892
William George Millington the husband of my 2nd cousin once removed was born in Manchester in 1910
Maria Newton my 2 x g.g.aunt was baptised in Fishtoft, Lincs in 1819
Catherine Clarke my husband’s g.g.aunt was baptised in Warwick in 1854
Susanna Dye my 3 x g.g.aunt was baptised in Newton Flotman, Norfolk in 1780
Mary Phillips Hanley (nee Brand) died in Glasgow in 1928
And one of my cousins was born this day in 1943.
Happy New Year to all.
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Missed more....
30/12
1st Cousin 4 x R Helen Murdoch b 30/12/1855 Hawick, daughter of Joseph & Helen Murdock nee Randall
1st Cousin 3 x R William Crozier Borthwick b 30/12/1859 Morven, Argyll, son of William & Janet Borthwick nee Crozier.
2g Grandparents George Chisholm & Mary Herbert m 31/12/1864 Yetholm, son of George & Janet Chisholm nee Waddle & illigitimate daughter of Mary Tait Herbert.
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5g Uncle James Cowe b 31/12/1803 Fishwick Mains, Berwickshire, son of David & Helen Cowe nee Sharp.
1st Cousin 5 x R Christian Durno b 31/12/1825 Coldingham, Berwickshire, daughter of George & Jean Durno nee Falconer.
1st Cousin 5 x R John Hastie b 31/12/1829 Choicelee, Langton Berwickshire, son of Alexander & Isobel Hastie nee Bell.
1st Cousin 4 x R John Murdoch son of Joseph & Helen Murdoch nee Randall m Margaret Jardine 31/12/1856 Hawick.
1st Cousin 3 x R Euphemia Frazer b 31/12/1860, Swinton, Berwickshire, daughter of Archibald & Catherine Frazer nee Chisholm.
2g grandparents John Screen and Isabella Lamb (daughter of Walter Lamb & Anne Douglas) m 31/12/1866 Selkirk. My line comes down from one of Isabella's 3 illigitimate daughters... Margaret Lamb.
1st Cousin 3 x R David Lyon, son of Andrew & Catherine Lyon nee Taylor m Jane Cullen 31/12/1869, Hawick.
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On 10 December 1868 my maternal grandfather, Samuel Robert Marshall was born in Horsleydown, Surrey. He was the son of Robert Marshall and Mary Ann Baker.
Silly me tried to add some missed dates to reference library data base and misunderstood how to do it ;D
Think I see now, and will have a go at doing it right!
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It's December again ... and "your starter for 5" is ....
quest40: 1 Dec 1872 Marriage BARKLEY, Mary Elizabeth USA, MI_, Married to 1st cousin 3 x removed, John Conquest
quest40: 1 Dec 1872 Marriage CONQUEST, John USA, MI_, 1st cousin 3 x removed, married Mary Elizabeth Barkley
genjen: 1 Dec 1899 Death GRIGGS, Hazell Brightlingsea father-in-law of 3 x great uncle
Lydart: 1 Dec 1875 Baptism RIGGS, Alberta Louise Wife of Grand Uncle
nanny jan: 1 Dec 1847 Birth VINEY, Frederick ENG, SOM, Monkton Combe 2x gt.gt. uncle
From: Ancestral Anniversaries:
http://surname.rootschat.com/lexicon/otday/otd-quick-search.php?month=12
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Thanks Bob. I got all excited, thinking you had Hazell Griggs in your tree - then I read the post properly!
Did I mention, first time around, the following:
1678 - Edward Jackson, son of Edward Jackson and Margrett Waller, baptised in Brough under Stainmore - 8 x great uncle
1771, Elizabeth Thornbury, daughter of William Thornbury ( Thornborough) and Elizabeth Brown, baptised in Bedale, 4 x great grandmother.
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I've reformatted my reply to avoid that :)
@ all,
And I forgot to mention, to check if you has entered this name already, just click on "print": the whole topic will then be shown in one easy-to-search page :)
And don't forget to enter your new entries in the database, too:
http://surname.rootschat.com/lexicon/otday/index.php
Bob
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On 1 December 1872 a first cousin 3 x removed, John Conquest, married Mary Elizabeth Barkley in Farrandville, Genesee, Michigan, USA. This turned out to be an ill fated marriage, as in 1878 the couple and their 18 month old daughter Mary were murdered in their farmhouse in Vienna, Genesee, Michigan.
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On 2 December 1750 my 6 x great grandmother Ann Fanch died in Kempston, Bedfordshire, aged 38. She was the first wife of Edward Crowsley, mother of Samuel, my 5 x great grandfather.
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My grandad Henry Albert Mockridge Rogers was born in 1891 :)
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Visitors over the weekend again :-\ so a bit late with these that I didn't post last December.
On 1 Dec
William Postlethwaite and Margaret Smith my 6 x g.grandparents married at St Mary’s Parish Church, Dalton in Furness in 1723. Margaret was 22 at the time, I haven’t got the year of William’s birth so I don’t know his age. He left a will but it doesn’t give his age. All I know is that his parents married in 1694.
Samuel Pemberton my 3 x g.grandfather married Hannah Rutter his 2nd wife at Witton Parish Church, Witton, Cheshire in 1834. His first wife had died in 1820 so he waited a long time before he took the plunge again in fact, until his youngest daughter was 18.
Robert Stanton my 9 x g.g.uncle was born in South Somercotes, Lincolnshire in 1611
Frances Cawthorn my 4 x g.g.aunt was baptised at Hacconby, Lincoln in 1760
Abigail Collett my 8 x g.g.aunt was baptised at Westerfield, Suffolk in 1584. It is known that she later married Miles Edgar at Westerfield during 1605 and, probably through this association twelve years later, Abigail's brother Philologus Collett married Dorcas Edgar, (they were my 8 x g.grandparents) the sister of Miles Edgar. It would appear from the records that Abigail was not married to Miles for very long, since he later married Dorothy Richmond, who was the daughter of Robert Richmond, of Hedenhall Hall in Norfolk, and his wife Katherine Prettyman. I’ve not found a death for Abigail though.
Ann Middleton my 3 x g.g.aunt died in Millom, Cumberland in 1809. She was just under 5 years old.
On 2 Dec
John Bagshaw my 7 x g.g.uncle was buried at St Nicholas’ Church, Bradfield, Yorkshire in 1640. He was 3 months old.
Frances Chapman Stanton (nee Cawthorn) my 3 x g.grandmother and niece of Frances Cawthorn listed on 1 December, was buried at St Bartholomew Church, West Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire in 1890. She was 90 years old and the cause of her death was old age.
Harriet Hobson my 1st cousin twice removed was buried in Southern Cemetery, Manchester in 1949. She was my maternal grandmother’s cousin and was often spoken about. I imagine I probably met her as they were close friends with only 6 months difference in age, but don’t remember as both she and my grandma died in 1949 when I was quite young. ;D
Robert Smith my 7 x g.grandfather was buried at St Mary’s Parish Church, Dalton in Furness, Lancashire in 1743. The probate records show that he was a Husbandman, I haven’t got his will yet, not sure I’d be able to read it. He was only 67 when he died.
On 3rd Dec
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December 3rd 1933. My grandmother Enid Grace James (born Vincent) died from heart failure at the age of 41 years leaving my 16 year old mother an orphan. My grandfather had died in 1918. :'(
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On this day in 1854, the Eureka Stockade occurred in Ballarat! The miners burned their mining licences in protest. The battle lasted only minutes but the reverberations have lasted down the years!
I don't know if my ancestors were there though my Gx2 grandfather was certainly in the gold fields by that time.
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My 2 X great grandparents were on the goldfields then too Wiggy. I think in the Creswick area as that was where their daughter was born in 1854, but don't know the date.
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See PM Nanna52
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On 3 December 1775 my 4 x great grandparents Mathew Ashwell and Mary Hull were married at Kempston, Bedfordshire. Mary proved to be a wonderful ancestor to have, because with help from another researcher, I have been able to go back several generations. The most interesting one for me is Thomas Goldsborough, my 12 x great grandfather, who was Mayor of Cambridge in 1591/2, and then became MP for the constituency in 1593.
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On 4th Dec only 3 distant ancestors:
Charles Brand my 1st cousin 3 times removed was baptised at The Parish Church of St Peter & St Paul, Union Road, Bourne, Lincolnshire in 1859
Daniel Benson my 5 x g.g.uncle was baptised at Holme Cultram Abbey Church, Holme Cultram, Cumberland in 1743. Sadly he died 4 years later and was buried at the same church.
Henry Spraggett my husband’s 3 x g.g.uncle was baptised at All Saints Church, Leamington Hastings, Warwickshire in 1792
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Maternal Grandma Agnes Douglas born 4 December 1884 in Blackburn, Lancashire.
Turns out that Gt Grandma was unmarried and gave birth at her brother's house.
Why? No idea, perhaps I'll find out someday. :-\
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December 5th 1933. My grandmother Enid Grace James was buried at Coburg Cemetery, a suburb of Melbourne. It is now part of The Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust.
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On 5 December – mainly distant ancestors apart from my 3 x g.grandmother.
Mary Lenton Gilchrist my 1st cousin 4 times removed was baptised at St Botolph’s Church, Boston, Lincolnshire in 1831. Sadly, less than 3 years later she died and was buried at the same church.
Harriet Middleton another 1st cousin 4 times removed was baptised at 1847
John Conway Case, my Uncle Jack, died in Oldham, Lancashire in 1990. He was 82.
Maria Fenwick (latterly Mumby nee Newton) my 2 x g.g.aunt died at 30 Wassand Street, Hull in 1881. Her first husband James Mumby died 20 years previously leaving her with 6 children of whom 4 were still of school age. She re-married a year after her husband’s death.
Henry Gordon Brand my 1st cousin twice removed died in Wythenshawe, Manchester in 1960. He was buried 4 days later in Southern Cemetery, Manchester.
Mary Cocket my 3 x g.grandmother was buried at All Saints Church, Holbeach, Lincolnshire in 1827, aged 49. She never married and had a baby girl who died in 1806. There is a Bastardy Recognizance for this little girl dated September 1805. In 1811, her son my 2 x g.grandfather was born. There is no bastardy order for him and on his marriage certificate he names his father, an uncommon name and someone who lived in Holbeach. Whether the fact that there was no order means that his father acknowledged him or not I don’t know, but I do know he married the first of his 2 wives when my 2 x g.grandfather was only 4 years old.
Stephen Spraggett my husband’s 3 x g.g.uncle was buried at All Saints Church, Leamington Hastings, Warwickshire in 1812. He was 15 years old.
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December 9th 1907, my great grandmother Elizabeth James (born Heale/Hale) died at Fitzroy, Victoria at the age of 73 years. She was born in Keynsham, Somerset and married before her 18th birthday. With her new husband they came out to Australia on the Joshua arriving in January 1852 and went straight to the goldfields around Ballarat where they stayed until around 1888. She bore eleven children, my grandfather being the youngest.
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On 10 December 1868 my maternal grandfather, Samuel Robert Marshall, was born in Horsleydown, London, the son of Robert and Mary Ann (nee Baker). Unfortunately I never new him, as he died several years before I was born. He worked as a printer in the newspaper industry, and was a Freemason. My mother didn't speak about him to me very much, so I don't know as much about him as I would like to.
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On 10th December 1827 my great great grandmother Rachel Brown was born in Earlsferry, Fife. She was the eldest child and only daughter of Elisabeth Scott and William Brown, a mariner.
On 11th December 1890 my great grandmother Elizabeth Stein's first husband, Robert Wright, died from pneumonia. She was left a widow and mother of three children at the age of 24. She was also pregnant with their 4th child, a girl, who was born 19 days later and named Robina.
On 11th December 1868 my great great grandfather's only sister Susan Ross Wardlaw died. She had married in January of the same year and died giving birth to her first child. I have Susan, or at least her name to thank for tracing my Ross ancestors.
On 11th December 1912 my great grand uncle Alexander McEwan enlisted in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. He was killed in action two years later.
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On 14 December 1800 my 2 x great grandfather, Robert Wilson, was baptised at St Giles Cripplegate, London.
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On 17th December 1948 my great grandmother Matilda Skelton McEwan died. She had married my great grandfather George McBride six weeks earlier. Tilda, as she was known, had been suffering from diabetes for 18 years. According to my grandmother's birth certificate, they married in 1906 but I can find no evidence of this. My thoughts are that knowing she was dying they ligitimized their marriage, maybe at least in the eyes of the Catholic church, to which they belonged. They married in Edinburgh and gave this as their residence, which it most certainly wasn't. I wonder if any family even knew what they were doing or did they keep it to themselves.
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December 18th 1868 my 2X great uncle William John Williams was born in Bairnsdale, Victoria. He was the youngest of four children. :)
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On 18 December 2000, the wife of a distant relative, Lillian B. Pinkston, died in Michigan, USA. By coincidence, it was just today that I found this information! Her husband, my third cousin 1x removed, was Thomas Jefferson Conquest, who had died in December 1970.
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On 19 December 1903 my paternal grandparents, Percival Wilson and Elizabeth Ann Elliott, were married in West Ham, Essex. I knew them well and loved my grandfather, although I didn't have quite the same feeling for Grandma. They lived in Leytonstone and I used to visit them there, travelling by bus from Palmers Green, quite an adventure when I first did it on my own, aged 12!
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On 18th December 1874 my 4xG grandmother Mary McLean died at 14 Russell Street, Bathgate. I have no birth for her as yet but know she was born in Greenock. Her father, according to her death certificate, was Donald McLean, sometime a soldier and afterwards a merchant. Her mother was Mary McInnes and both these I have yet to find. She was married to Daniel Clifford, himself a bit of an enigma. He used the Clifford surname his whole life and indeed his mother was Helen Clifford, as told on his death certificate. However it gives his name as McLaughlan and his father as John McLaughlan, a soldier (private). I know he was born in Ireland and that is about it. So much to discover about these two.
On 19th December 1944 my great grandmother Elizabeth Stein died in my grandmother's house. I have a link to her in that I was born in my gran's house. Elizabeth is responsible for instilling in me the desire to research my ancestry, as it was her story that set me off on the long and difficult path I share with everyone on here. She is a particular favourite of mine in my genealogy and I wish I had known her.
On 19th December 1839 Marion Tweedie died in Thankerton Boat. She was the eldest child of my 4xG grandparents Robert Tweedie and Margaret Somerville and the sister of my 3xG grandfather Robert Tweedie. Marion was married to a farmer, John Trevit and is buried with him in Carnwarth churchyard.
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On 20 December 1827 my 2 x great grandparents, Robert Wilson and Harriet Sewell, married at St George's Church, Hanover Square, London. They had seven children, only some of whom I have found in later records - it is fortunate that my great grandfather had the forenames Frederic Sewell, otherwise he would have been difficult to find too! I haven't been able to find deaths for either Robert or Harriet.
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20 Dec 1852 ... Susannah Almeroth née Ellis, widow of Henry Almeroth (Herman's eldest son), died aged 62 at 6 Washington St, MEOT.
20 Dec 1882 ... Charles Mawer, builder, of 1 Courtney St, Holderness Rd, Hull, died aged 54. My gt gt grandfather, b.1828 in Market Rasen, Lincs.
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On 22 December 1820 my 2 x great great uncle, John Conquest, was born in Cardington, Bedfordshire. He was the youngest son of William and Mary (nee Thomason), 17 years younger than my 2 x great grandfather James Conquest.
He married twice, first to Mary Nottingham, who died in 1852, and then to Elizabeth Rignall. He had a successful building business and left a comprehensive will when he died in 1864. I was sent a copy of his will by a Rignall descendent and this gave me a wealth of information about the Conquest family.
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On December 23, 1830, Thomas Lamb Reynolds married Sophia Bullock in Dartford. He was the son of Joseph Reynolds and Jane (unknown). Joseph was the son of another Joseph Reynolds who married Susanna Lamb in 1771, probably the source of Thomas's middle name. But Lamb was not his grandmother's maiden name as she was born Susanna Rutter and became Mrs Lamb on her first marriage in 1759.
On December 23, 1832 my great great grandfather John Andrew Rutter was christened in Dover. In successive census he is described as Printer, Newspaper reporter, Newspaper editor, Journalist, Journalist (Author). I would like to know what paper's editor he claimed to be in 1871; it must have been in Ashford where he lived all his adult life. His great grandfather Edward Rutter was the above Susanna's brother.
Elsewhere in my Kent ancestors, my great great grandmother Susanna Redman née Terry was buried in Ashford on this day in 1885.
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December 25th 1915, my 2X great grandmother Margaret Williams (born Ellis) died in Bairnsdale, Victoria, at the age of 85. Born in Anglesey, Wales, she married Owen Williams in 1853 and they came to Australia in 1857 where they settled and farmed in Bairnsdale. She had 4 children, Jane, Owen, Grace and William John.
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On December 25, 1859, according to FamilySearch, Harry Turvey was christened in Blockley, the son of my great grandfather William and his first wife Hannah née Beechey.
Trouble is, the same source also says Harry Turvey was christened in Blockley nine months earlier, on March 4 the same year, which agrees with the FreeBMD registration in the first quarter. Did Harry's parents forget they'd already had him splashed? Was there a new vicar more to their liking? Or did they think a child baptized on this day would grow up more Christlike?
On December 25, 1838 in Herne, Kent, my great great grandmother Sophia Redman was christened. She was the daughter of Charles who came from a family of oyster men in Oare near Whitstable. Her mother was Susanna Terry mentioned on the 23rd where I omitted a 'great'.
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One I forgot yesterday. On December 24th 1900 Jane Elliot Walmsley was born at Candie Pit. She was my great grandmother Elizabeth Stein's youngest child and only one by her second husband. Jane's husband was one of three Allinghams to marry into various lines of my family and he was a distant relative of the Irish poet William Allingham, who himself was married to the painter of English rural scenes, Helen Allingham. Jane was my grandfather's sister and my mother, his youngest child is named after her.
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William Isles Ridsdale 1897 - 1932,
41st Battalion Machine Gun Corps and Military Medal Winner,
Baptised today, 25th December 1897 Airmyn, Yorkshire.
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My Great Great Grandfather, John Oliver North, married my Great Great Grandmother, Louisa Woonton, on Christmas Day 1834 at St Michael and all Angels Church, Chaffcombe, Somerset. I never thought that people got married on Christmas Day, but have since found out that it was quite popular in times gone by. :)
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Elizabeth McDonnell, born 25 Dec 1865.
Died 21 April 1905 which that year was Good Friday
Buried on Easter Sunday.
Left 7 children, the youngest only 2 years old, her eldest daughter (my grand mother) was taken out of school to be housekeeper and mother she was only 10 years old.
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Popular day for marriages in my tree!
On 25 December
In 1800 my 3 x great grandparents Robert Crisp and Eleanor Laer were married at St Mary Newington, Surrey.
In 1844 my g.g aunt Angelina Giovannelli married William Peppercorn in Islington, London.
In 1866 another g.g aunt, Rose Ann Crowsley, married William Finedon at Holy Trinity Church, Bedford.
In 1886 my great aunt Ellen Elizabeth Marshall married Edmund Charles Beton Webb at Clerkenwell St James, London. He was a seaman and I believe soon after their marriage they moved to Scotland, where their three children were born. Sadly Ellen and her two youngest died in 1893.
Also in 1886 my great uncle William George Conquest married Eliza Jane Stevens at St Mary Newington, Surrey. One of the witnesses on my grandmother Louise's marriage certificate was Eliza Jane Conquest, but it took several years of research before I managed to find this couple!
In 1889 my g.g uncle James Conquest married his second wife Lydia Ada Elton at the parish church, Denmark Hill, Surrey.
In 1892 my great uncle Edwin Arthur Conquest, brother of William George above, married Louisa Mary Ann Smith at St Mary Newington, Surrey.
And finally, after all those marriages, on this day in 1803 my 2 x great grandfather James Conquest was baptised at Cardington, Bedfordshire. He later married Susan Crisp, daughter of Robert and Eleanor above.
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25 Dec 1849 ... James Almeroth married Eliza Rose at Ratcliffe, London. Eliza died in 1862 and a few years later James married her sister Louisa.
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Mary Mellor was baptized at St Michael's, Macclesfield, daughter of Thomas Mellor and Mary Bridge. She married Samuel Warren 21 Oct 1765 at Prestbury and they lived in Rainow.
Emily Ball nee Sheehan died today in 1996 in Stockport, my mother in law. claytonbradley
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On December 26th 1915. Having died on Christmas Day my great great grandmother Margaret Williams, born Ellis, was buried. She was the mother of four children and grandmother of nine when she died.
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26 Dec 1877 ... Charles Almeroth married Alice Wrede at All Saints, St Mary Haggerston, Mdx.
26 Dec 1914 ... at Old Ford, London, Henry William Almeroth married Amelia Beatrice Mahoney ... my grandparents.
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Today, December 27th, is the 250th wedding anniversary of my 5xgreat grandparents, Edward Rutter and Matilda Knocker, in Dover.
It is the 332nd anniversary of the marriage of John Rutter and Ann Fairman, who I believe are Edward's grandparents.
(http://johninsussex.webspace.virginmedia.com/1681.jpg)
And the 258th anniversary of the marriage of Edward's older sister Elizabeth to Stephen Sampson (her cousin I think). Their last daughter Matilda Sampson left an extensive will, which allowed me to trace a large number of cousins. (See link below.)
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On 26 December 1908 my great grandfather William Conquest died in Wandsworth, Surrey, aged 68. His brother James was the informant on the death certificate as his wife Louisa was in Canada at the time, living with their son and daughter.
On 27 December 1884 my great great uncle James Conquest, as mentioned above, married his first wife, Martha Thomason. As she was his cousin, Martha was also my great great aunt. Sadly she died four years later, in 1888, aged 35. She and James had no children.
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27 Dec 1964 ... Henry William Almeroth of 22 South St, Sheringham, Norfolk, died aged 70.
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On 27th December 1789 Henry Downs was Christened in Bo'ness. Thomas, the name of his paternal grandfather had already been used and Henry it seems is named after his great grandfather, though his father was also a Henry. He was one of the elder brothers of my 3xG grandmother Jane Downs. His grandfather was born in Slamannan where my own birth was registered.
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December 29th 1921 my great grandmother Grace Vincent (born Williams) died in Bairnsdale, Victoria at the age of 57 years from kidney disease. She had six children, my grandmother Enid Grace Vincent being the second born.
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On 29 December 1963 my much loved paternal grandfather, Percival Wilson, died in Whipps Cross Hospital, Leytonstone, Essex, aged 84. I remember going to the hospital to see him just before Christmas and being upset that he was so ill - he died a few days later.
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On this day:
29 December 1867, Anne Elizabeth Ridsdale Baptised Airmyn, Yorkshire, abode registered as "Downes Ground".
Sadly passed away March 1870 aged 3 years. :'(
Regards,
Frank.
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The last of my Christmas week Rutters:
On December 29th 1833 my great great grandmother Sarah Swinerd was christened in Mersham church. On the same day 28 years later in the same place, she married John Andrew Rutter whom I mentioned on the 23rd.
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On 29th December 1846 my GG grandfather James McBride was born in Stranraer. This was also the same year that the RC parish of St. Joseph's was made official with the arrival of Father Thomas Moore. Moore was the minister at my GG grandfather's christening on 6th January 1847. The church of St. Joseph's wasn't completed until 1853 so as yet I know not where this christening would have taken place. Though James' father, also James was born in Wigtownshire, I feel the trail will lead to Ireland. Both sponsors at the christening were Irish as was James' mother, Mary Keane.
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On 29 December 1991 my paternal grandfather (Gangy as I called him as a child), Samuel Alfred Robbins, died suddenly at home age 79. God bless Gangy.
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During the 1940's and 50's I have several sets of great aunts/uncles who all made a deliberate decision to marry on the last few days of December so that the new spouse (usually the wife) could be declared as a dependent for the year of marriage when the income tax returns were filed. No point in waiting a few months and missing that tax advantage ;)
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On 29th December 1903 my GG grandmother Hannah Greer married for the second time. Her first husband, my GG grandfather had also re-married the same year. He emigrated to the USA a few years later. I found out only recently that he had in fact taken out divorce proceedings against Hannah.
On 29th December 1891 my great grandmother Elizabeth gave birth to her 4th child by her first husband Robert Wright. It was a girl named Robina after her father who had died of pneumonia only 19 days earlier. A widow with 4 children, by 1901 Elizabeth was taking in washing to make ends meet. Times were indeed hard and we have people like my gutsy great grandmother to thank that we are here at all.
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Four for New Years Eve, all marriages.
On 31st December 1852 Marion Steen married George Downie in Linlithgow. Marion was the sister of my GG grandfather James.
On 31st December 1855 Mary Greer married John Tulloch in New Monkland. Mary was the sister of my 3xG grandfather Samuel and I thank her profusely for marrying in 1855. Those records were more detailed and hers tell me that the family came from Ballinderry in Ireland.
On 31st December 1867 Samuel Greer, brother of the above Mary, married Mary Mcreary in Slamannan, Stirlingshire. Bride, groom and all four parents were born in Ireland. Samuel and Mary were my 3xG grandparents.
On 31st December 1889 John Stein married Maggie Neil in Glasgow. John, like his father was a shoemaker and was the elder brother of my great grandmother Elizabeth. John was the nephew of the above mentioned Marion, his father had started used the spelling Stein instead of Steen, though both are pronounced the same.
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On 31 December 1845, a first cousin 3 x removed, Josiah Conquest, was born in Cardington, Bedfordshire. He was the son of another Josiah and Martha Brampton. The family emigrated to the USA in 1853, and settled in Vienna, Genesee, Michigan. Aged 18, in September 1864 Josiah enlisted in the Michigan 9th Infantry Regiment and served until he was mustered out in 1865.
On 31 December 1859 my husband's great grandparents, William Prior and Elizabeth Parker, were married in Little Hadham, Hertfordshire. William and Elizabeth lived at The Ford, Little Hadham, and William became the village blacksmith.