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Another month seems to have slipped by in a flurry of births, deaths, marriages and other significant days in our family trees.
It being April in some parts of the world already, I thought I'd best get on with creating the new thread for this month's anniversaries.
I hope those who have been doing so will keep posting and that there will be some new people joining us in this bit of harmless fun. :D
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Just bookmarking, so I know where to go tomorrow ::)
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One birth today; a 2nd cousin 1R, Caroline Alice Ralph born in Hackney in 1896, daughter of Mark and Isabella (nee Read). Caroline is with the family on 1911 census and then after that I've lost her. There is a possible death in 1971 but in Cleveland......a long way from home!
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Also just making my mark, no really interesting ones for a few days when I have a whole load around the same time.
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Nothing much for a few days genjen, but I'll be staying aboard. Being part of this thread has made me look again and only yesterday I received a photo of my 5xG grandfather's grave, which was a result of one of those looks.
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I have only the one today as well.
Margaret Raitt was baptised in 1819, Old Machar Aberdeenshire. A 4 x great aunt about whom I know nothing other than that she married John Thow in 1852. Maybe I should have a look at censuses to see what family she had, if any......
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I thought I had dozens for today, until I realised my search was picking up 11 and 21 April too. ::)
Thomas Pemberton my g.g.uncle was born in Kingsley, Frodsham, Cheshire in 1850
Francis Collett my 5 x g.g.uncle was baptised in Eye, Suffolk in 1715
Elizabeth Stanton my 3 x g.g.aunt was baptised in Heckington, Lincolnshire in 1810
Elias Dyke my husband’s 4 x g.grandfather was baptised in Hatton, Warwick in 1770
Elizabeth Hobson (nee Lodge) the 3rd wife of my g.g.uncle died in Manchester in 1941
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Not a relative but a lady i worked with many years ago was born at 5 past midnight. Because her father didn't want her to celebrate on 1st April he put the hands on the clock back 10 minutes, the doctor duly noted her birth as 31st March.
She was told by her aunt about this when she was well into her 50's. She died in 1999 age 84.
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Born today, in 1821 according to parish records (but on the IGI, 1826 !) ... Samuel Trowbridge, my 2x great grandfather. Born in Witchampton, Dorset. I know quite a bit about his family, (his father being one of my Ambrose Trowbridges !) but very little about him. Obviously work to be done.
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Lucy Cowper my 4 x g.grandmother was baptised in Bredfield, Suffolk in 1731
John Baxter my 7 x g.grandfather was baptised at Folkingham, Lincolnshire in 1680. It has been suggested that the Baxters, either his grandfather or his father came from Scotland originally, but nothing has been proved.
Caroline Cass my 1st cousin twice removed was baptised in Hull, Yorkshire in 1865
Elizabeth Hobson my 4 x g.g.aunt was buried at St Peter’s Church, Huddersfield in 1749. She was 3 years old.
Harry Dawson my husband’s grandfather was buried in Philips Park Cemetery, Manchester in 1917. In the grave with him is his baby daughter Hilda who died in 1906 aged one, and his baby granddaughter Beryl who died in 1928 as a result of being born prematurely at 7½ months.
George Woodward my 4 x g.grandfather was buried at St Laurence Church, Frodsham, Cheshire in 1817. No grave has been found, but I assume he was probably buried in the same grave as his wife who died in 1805 – although her gravestone shows 1808 – and that no-one got round to having George’s name put on the gravestone.
Mary Sale my husband’s 3 x g.grandmother was buried at St Lawrence Church, Denton, Lancashire in 1883
Joseph Pemberton my 4 x g.g.uncle was buried at Great Budworth, Cheshire in 1762. He was 2 years old.
Frederick Pemberton my 2nd cousin once removed and Elsie Davies married in Warrington, Lancashire (as it was then) in 1934
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Not an ancestor, but a descendent ! Congratulations to my number one son; its his and her first wedding anniversary today !!
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My great x 4 grandparents Hester Bisley and and Joseph Pierce were married today by Licence in 1764.
The marriage was of the parish of St Gregory by St Paul in London, a church which was destroyed in the Great Fire of London and not rebuilt, so the service was at St Mary Magdalen Old Fish Street.
On the licence Joseph was of Colnbrook, Bucks, and Hester of St Gregory by St Paul.
This is a slight oddity as Hester was born in Warfield in Berks. Joseph was apparently not born in Berks. BEst guess is that he & his brother were born in London. (THis would be another thread)
Joseph was a Toll Gate Keeper in COlnbrook.
They had 5 children of whom 4 survived.
On 23rd February 1781, Joseph was brutally murdered at the Toll gate house, apparently for the money taken.
The King offered a reward, but I found no evidence that the killer(s) were apprehended.
JOseph's brother seemed to assist, at his death he clearly owns the house Hester is living in.
Hester finally died back in Warfield in Berks (where she was born)but was buried in Langley (the parish Church for Colnbrook)
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John Middleton my 2 x g.g.uncle was baptised at Holy Trinity Church, Millom Cumberland in 1842
Thomas Lenton Gilchrist my 1st cousin 4 times removed was baptised at St Botolph’s Church, Boston, Lincolnshire in 1829. Lenton was his mother’s maiden name.
Edward Stanton my 3 x g.g.uncle was baptised in Heckington, Lincolnshire in 1801
Mattias Gaunt another 1st cousin 4 times removed was baptised at St John the Baptist Church, Penistone, Yorkshire in 1796
Sarah Hawkins my 5 x g.g.aunt was baptised at Spalding, Lincolnshire in 1698.
William Collett my 3 x g.grandfather died in Union House Workhouse, Shipmeadow, Suffolk, in 1846 aged 87. In 1841 he was a widower living with a family in Barlow Green, Stradbroke (who might have been his daughter and son in law, I’m still trying to find that out) and working as an agricultural labourer. I don’t know when he went into the workhouse, I imagine he found it impossible to keep working and supporting himself so he had no option, or maybe his death from “old age” meant he was suffering from something like dementia.
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A 1st cousin 2R born today in 1891 in Islington; John Robert William Charles Mears son of Robert and Susan (nee Burgess). Robert had died a few months before John's birth. John married Ethel May Halls in 1919; the certificate shows him to be a railway porter. They had 5 children and John died in St. Albans in 1968, twelve years before Ethel.
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Today in 1888, my 3 x great grandmother, Margaret Daniel ( nee Hay) died at Meadowbank in Peterhead, aged approximately seventy-seven - born c 1811. She was the daughter of Alexander Hay and Isabella Alexander and married James Daniel in 1846, in Cruden, Aberdeenshire.
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Today is the birthday of my dear mother, Joyce Cicely Sims, who passed away April 8th 2008.
Mum was born in Blaina, Monmouthshire in 1931.
Her parents were from Snodland, Kent - her maternal grandfather had moved the family to South Wales seeking work in 1908 - and Steeple Ashton, Wiltshire - her father had moved to the mines of South Wales with his brother, after a short spell working in the Bristol coalfield.
So, 2 generations back, and already 3 counties!
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My dearly loved Grandpa's birthday. He would have been 113 today and he is still loved and remembered every day.
CJL
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3 April 1747 - my 6xgreat-grandfather, Jacob Kluitenberg, was born in Epe, Gelderland. His parents were Aalbert Jacobs and Fenneke Jansen. His father was a farm worker on a place called Kluitenberg, that's where the name comes from. Jacob was married three times and died in 1810.
3 April 1854 - my 5xgreat-grandmother, Cornelia van Spijker, died in Welsum, Overijssel aged 41. She was a housewife to Reijnder de Winter, a clog maker, and they had one son. She was survived by both her parents.
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3 April 1866 - my 6xgreat-grandmother, Everdina Gerrits Neuteboom, died in Nijbroek, Gelderland aged 78. She was married to the farmer Peter Lubberts van Spijker and was also a farmer. She had several children, but outlived most of them.
4 April 1757 - my 6xgreat-grandmother, Hilletje van Grieken, was born in Roelofarendsveen, Zuid-Holland. She was first married to Johannes Bakker, who died in 1807. She then married Pieter Kornelisz van Veen in 1811 in Alkemade, and remained there until her death in 1828.
4 April 1813 - my 6xgreat-grandparents, Gillis Blok and Antonia Mandel, married in Zierikzee, Zeeland. At the time Gillis was a 25-year old painter and Antonia was 26 with no occupation. Their fathers had both died (Antonia's father, Adriaan Mandel was a marine captain who died in France), but their mothers were both living in Zierikzee - Martina Verseput and Sara Bergwerf, both with no occupation. Gillis and Antonia went on to have five children but sadly Antonia died in 1822, and Gillis in 1826, shortly into his second marriage.
4 April 1824 - my 6xgreat-grandmother, Johanna de Meij, died in Leiden aged 68. She worked as a cotton spinner. She had four children with a local merchant, Johannes Brouwer, but I don't believe they married.
4 April 1849 - my 4xgreat-grandparents, Mannes Overmars and Antje Banté, married in Olst, Overijssel. At the time they were 25 and 23 respectively, and both working as daily-hired labourers. The marriage was a double wedding, with Antje's cousin Albertus Beltman. At the time, both of Mannes' parents were still living - Willem Overmars and Willemina van Putten. Antje's father Willem was still alive, and both the fathers were also daily-hired workers. Mannes and Antje were married until Antje's death in 1865, and Mannes remarried and later worked as a farmer, dying in 1902.
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Today is the birthday of my dear mother, Joyce Cicely Sims, who passed away April 8th 2008.
My lovely Mum's birthday too. She died in 2010 and I think about her every day.
Today - the 4th of April - my lovely daughter's 18th birthday. :)
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Today in Newton, Methlick, Aberdeenshire, my 3 x great grandmother, Christian Crichton was born, daughter of William Crichton and Mary Brechin. She married James Raitt in 1832.
Christian was either a good and saintly woman, browbeaten or just a little bit of a pushover. This is putting today's values on her, which I know I ought not to do but honestly, she had several children with James Raitt and then went on to raise, as her own, the babies who were born as a result of his extra-marital affairs. Not sure exactly how many but it was either two or three, possibly including my own 2 x great grandmother. She died in 1871 in Old Machar. I'm quite fond of Christian, in that way which I know several of us have when it comes to the ancestors. Some simply strike more of a chord than others.
In 1894, Bedale a 1st cousin x 2, Ethel Lynn was born. She married Raymond Burton and died in 1956, in York.
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First a bit of info about one of yesterday's ancestors:
William Collett my 3 x g.grandfather died in Union House Workhouse, Shipmeadow, Suffolk, in 1846 aged 87. In 1841 he was a widower living with a family in Barlow Green, Stradbroke (who might have been his daughter and son in law, I’m still trying to find that out) and working as an agricultural labourer. I don’t know when he went into the workhouse, I imagine he found it impossible to keep working and supporting himself so he had no option, or maybe his death from “old age” meant he was suffering from something like dementia.
Funny how doing this sets up a chain reaction. I asked a question on the Suffolk board about 2 apparent daughters of William and found that the "daughter" he was living with in 1841, was in fact his daughter, but that she died later that year, hence his move to the workhouse I guess.
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Lots of ancestors today for both my husband and me.
Annie Elizabeth Collett my 3rd cousin once removed was born in 1896
Elizabeth (Betty) Moors my husband’s 2 x g.grandmother was born in Werneth, Stockport, Cheshire, in 1811. Werneth became Compstall in 1897 when the population was less than 875, and then in 1936 it was abolished and divided between Bredbury and Romiley.
Matilda Whittaker my husband’s g.g.aunt was born in Denton, Lancashire in 1833
Maud Ellen Shalless (nee Cockett) my g.aunt was born in 1884. I actually met Aunt Maud as she was known, although I don’t remember seeing her until after my gran died in 1949. She isn’t on the list of mourners at my gran’s funeral, so I guess she must have just read about her death in the newspaper and contacted the family. She was my gran’s sister in law. She was the only one of her siblings to live to a relatively old age and was 74 when she died.
Elizabeth Mowforth (nee Alden) my g.aunt was baptised at St James’ Church, Hull in 1878. She was the youngest daughter of my g.gran from her first (and probably only) marriage. My g.gran’s husband was shown as deceased on Elizabeth’s birth certificate.
Mary Stanton (nee Baxter) my 5 x g.grandmother was baptised in Heckington, Lincolnshire in 1746 according to Familysearch. However, I’ve searched on Lincstothepast, from 1740 (3 years before her parents married) to 1750 (she married in 1765) and cannot find her baptism, although I did find the baptisms of her siblings.
Blanche Badams my husband’s 4 x g.grandmother was baptised at St Mary’s Church, Warwick in 1764.
Elizabeth Hobson (nee Lodge) the 3rd wife of my g.g.uncle was buried in Southern Cemetery, Manchester in 1941. Oddly, the only daughter of her husband’s first marriage was buried in the same grave in 1949.
James Postlethwaite my 5 x g.grandfather was buried in Dalton in Furness, Lancashire in 1781
Harry Dawson & Minnie Gertrude Heaton my husband’s maternal grandparents were married at Christ Church, Bradford, Manchester in 1896
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The 15th census of the United States of America was on the 4th April 1930. They showed my great great grandfather Robert McEwan (born McKeown) aged 67 with his second wife Elizabeth Robertson (maiden name Cochrane) aged 71. Their address was Fourth Street, Bicknell, Knox County, Indiana. The Americans have come up with many innovative ideas but street names it seems wasn't one of them. They were first married when she was 45 and him 41, though he was actually first married aged 20 to my then 16 year old great great grandmother Hannah.
He emigrated in 1893 according to the census, hmm, he may have first gone in 1893 leaving his pregnant wife and four kids behind but I know he must have popped back. He married Elizabeth in Scotland in 1903, declaring himself a widower despite the fact Hannah was very much alive.
I also have him coming back one time on the SS Indiana. This was the same ship that American president and Civil War leader Ulysses S Grant used on the first leg of his 1877/8 world tour.
The census says he was born in Scotland as were his parents but this is wrong. His parents were Irish and he was born in Coalisland, County Tyrone. His family moved to Scotland sometime between his 3rd and 6th birthday.
The same census shows his elder brother William, also born in Ireland living in Rayne Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania with his Pennsylvanian born wife Mary Chapman. He had arrived in 1883 aged only 20 and seems to have married almost immediately. His children were all born in America. All had left home by the time of this census and Wiliam and Mary were renting a property for $11 a month.
I probably know more about this family than any other in my ancestry but it would fill a book, so I will split it up to relevent dates ;D
Here is my great great grandfather and his second wife, beautifully coloured by Cazza59. He appears to have a lazy right eye, this is something I have inherited, though it isn't as lazy now as when I was a child.
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Born today in 1895 in Kensington my gt. uncle, John Richard Kingsman, son of John and Annie (nee George). He was the first of their 10 children. John served in WW1, as did his father, and was wounded in his thigh which ended his service and he was given a SWB; as was his father who was gassed.
John married in 1917, at St. Clements, Kensington, Lily Beatrice Hill whose brother Charles later married John's sister Annie. His occupation then was shown as munitions worker. John and Lily and 4 children; their second child George lost his life in WW2 on HMS Lancastria. John died in 1957; Lily remarried a few years later and died in 1975.
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1882 - Christopher Lynn was born in Bedale. 1st cousin x 2 of whom I know very little.
1956 - Walter Lynn died in Claro, West Riding " " of whom, even less.
1968, in Inverness, my paternal grandfather, John McIntosh Howe died, aged seventy-one. He was a bit of a feckless soul, my granddad. Sometimes he had loads of money and the family could live in a middle-class Aberdonian manner. At other times, there was nothing and they lived hand to mouth. He was all of five feet tall and had a way with him which scared the wits out of his small grand-daughter. " Boo to you to" he would announce and I would scuttle, shrieking in terror, to the safety of my mother's skirts. As with all my grandparents, I wish he had had the good grace to stay alive for long enough for me to get to know him better. As it was, with him living in the north of Scotland, we hardly ever saw him so I have only a few memories.
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I wish he had had the good grace to stay alive for long enough for me to get to know him better.
Ditto to that genjen, my maternal grandfather died before I was born and I've since found out unnecessarily due to a wrong diagnosis. Like yours, a wee man 5' 2".
On April 5th 1840 my great great grand aunt Agnes Brown was born in Bo'ness. She had four brothers and just the one sister, my great great grandmother Janet.
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Both of my maternal grandparents died before I was born. I can get so cross with them for their lack of consideration. Hardly their fault though - grandfather died as the result of an industrial accident and grandmother from lack of knowledge and adequate medical care.
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Ann Knight Bond was born today in 1817 in Denton, Lancs
She married John Keen, a Tile Cutter from Yorkshire, in Manchester Cathedral in 1842, and lived in the Ecclesfield area in Yorkshire.
Ann was my great great great aunt
Ann died in Sept quarter in Wortley district in 1887, and John the following quarter
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Daniel Baxter and Eliza Dalby my 6 x g.grandparents married in Little Ponton, Lincolnshire in 1743. Daniel was a wheelwright.
Hannah Pemberton my 1st cousin twice removed was born in Kingsley, Frodsham, Cheshire in 1873
Rebecca Gilchrist my 1st cousin 4 times removed was baptised at St Botolph’s Church, Boston, Lincolnshire in 1842
Mary Woodward another 1st cousin 4 times removed was baptised in Frodsham, Cheshire in 1813. It's interesting to note that there is nearly 30 years between these two 1st cousins 4 times removed. Either someone was having babies quite young, or someone else was quite old. ::)
Anna Maria Rawlins (nee Alden) who was born in 1868, John Frederick William Alden who was born in 1871 and Ellen Mary Alden who was born in 1874 were all baptised at the same time in 1874 at Lowestoft, Suffolk. As the first daughter was baptised at about 14 months old, I don’t know why Anna Maria and John Frederick W weren’t baptised earlier. They were all children of my g.grandmother from her first marriage (and probably only marriage). Anna Maria died in 1956 aged 88, having been widowed since 1902, John Frederick William a bosun fell overboard and drowned in the North Sea in 1906 aged 35 and poor little Ellen Mary died in 1876 aged 2 years and 3 months from Rubeola for 7 days and croup for 3 days.
Margaret Litle(Lyttle) my 10 x g.g.aunt was baptised at Grantchester, Cambridge in 1566
John Pemberton my 2 x g.g.uncle died in Witton-cum-Twambrooks, Cheshire in 1837. The civil parish was abolished in 1894 and became part of Northwich, Cheshire.
Anne Stanton my 5 x g.g.aunt was buried in Rippingale, Lincolnshire in 1736. She was just over a month old.
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I am breaking my usual habit and ocvering three people today.
Ann Penycod and John Berryman married today in Chertsey in 1758. Neither was young and they had no children
John was a yeoman and brickmaker
Ann left the farm and brick kiln etc to her nephew William Varnden's wife Elizabeth (William himself died shortly afterards so was presumably already at death's door)
William and Elizabeth were my 4 greats grandparents. This Berryman or Penycod link is yet to materialise but the best clue I have.
Mary Bird married Thomas Tomkins today in 1815 in Wacton Herefordshire
Thomas was a carpenter who lived until 1874, Mary until 1870.
They had 8 children. They were my 4 greats grandparents
And finally Jane Tomkins their daughter married William Bishop an ag lab in 1836 in Stanford Bishop Herefordshire - the same day her parents married.
Between 1837 and 1841 they moved to the Broadheath area of Worcestershire. They had 5 children. William lived until 1888 and Jane 1893
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Born today in Tenterden, Kent in 1836; my 3xgt. aunt Elizabeth Henman, daughter of William and Sophia (nee Rose). I am descended from Elizabeth's sister Charlotte who was born 2 years later. Elizabeth married John Ballard, an ag. lab, in 1853 in Tenterden; she had at least 12 children, possibly 15 and died in 1882; John ended his days in Tenterden Workhouse and died in 1914.
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Baptised 6th April, 1724 in Middleton in Teesdale - William Bland - 7 x great uncle.
I don't have any more BMDs for today but you know those things which make family history such fun, well.................
On April 6th 1887, my 3 x great grandmother, Jane Knight, was convicted of theft and sentenced to six months hard labour in Northallerton Prison.
And - six years later, on April 6th 1893, she suffered exactly the same fate!
She stole items such as boots, yards of shirting material and men's trousers ( from shops, not from men wearing them). She was also convicted for drunkenness on two occasions.
There were other episodes between these two dates but obviously not in the Spring Quarter. ;D
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Only 3 distant ancestors for today.
Robert John Collett my 6th cousin once removed was born in Brentford, Middlesex in 1904
Joseph Bagshaw my 7x g.g.uncle was baptised at St Nicholas’ Church, Bradfield, Yorkshire in 1652
John Lightfoot my 6 x g.g.uncle was baptised in Holme Cultram, Cumberland in 1707
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Mary Washington and Isaac Booth married today in 1828 at St Mary's Stockport
They lived in Marple.
They had 13 children, including 2 sets of twins.
Many of the earlier children were baptised across the river in Marple Bridge, Derbyshire at Mill Brow independent.
Isaac was a labourer all his life.
Mary died in 1863, and Isaac in 1878 in Hazel Grove, but still buried in Marple
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Born today in Kent in 1861; a 1st cousin 3R Sophia Ballard, daughter of John and Elizabeth (nee Henman), Elizabeth's birthday was yesterday. Sadly Sophia lived for just a few months.
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On 7 April,
Joseph Hobson & Elizabeth Lockwood my 2 x g.grandparents were married at The Parish Church in the Parish of Penistone, Yorkshire in 1841. By chance, whilst scrambling under over grown bushes in St John the Evangelist Church, Denby, Yorkshire churchyard I came across Joseph’s gravestone. I knew he had been buried there, but I had no idea, until I saw the stone, that Elizabeth was also buried in the grave, as she had died in Manchester.
James Benson, my 2 x g.g.uncle married Ann Mattinson at St Mary’s Parish Church, Dalton in Furness, Lancashire in 1855.
Edith Cockett, my aunt (one of my mother’s sisters) and John Conway Case were married at Harpurhey Methodist Chapel, Rochdale Road, Harpurhey, Manchester in 1928.
James Hobson my 3 x g.g.uncle & Lydia Barrow were married at Almondbury Parish Church, Yorkshire in 1799.
William Collett my 3 x g.grandfather was buried at Union House, Shipmeadow, Suffolk in 1846. He was 87. In 1841 he was staying with his married daughter and working as an agricultural labourer, unfortunately, his daughter died not long after the 1841 census was taken, and I assume it was then that William had to go to the workhouse where he died in 1846.
William Bayldon my 7 x g.g.uncle was buried in Huddersfield in 1628. He was one year old.
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Hello everyone, I'm new to the site. Looking forward to getting to know you all. My second great grandfather, David Cowley, was born on 17 April 1822
Rosie
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Hello Rosie .... welcome ! (My grand-daughter is also a Rosie !)
Today 13 years ago was my mothers funeral; and like the weather today, it was a cold, sunny, crisp day. She is buried in the churchyard of the church I attend every week, which is an SSSI and full of the most glorious wild flowers, over-looking the River Wye.
The summer after, her grave was covered with tall ox-eye daisies, which she would have loved .... it puts a whole new meaning to 'pushing up the daisies', of which she would certainly have seen the funny side !
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My great Uncle Percy - George Percy Douglas died today in 1971
He and my great aunt Ethel , who were both unmarried, were left the bakery and lived upstairs.
Ethel was out - probably walking the dog.
George was sitting in fron of the fire when he had a stroke and fell into the fire, dying, he was 86.
He was one of twins.
I learnt recently from an Aunt that he was in the 'Cavalry'. It seems that he may have been in the Horse Artillery in WW1.
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Lovely picture, Stonechat. :)
Hello Rosie and welcome to Rootschat and especially to this thread. We're a friendly bunch so do keep posting in here when you have an ancestral anniversary.
On this day in 1814, my 3 x great uncle, John Smith ( ::) family is full of 'em) was baptised in Nairn. His father is my stumbling block on this line and I got all excited a few months ago when it seemed, briefly that we had found a way backwards but it wasn't to be. Still, I have a bit more of an idea where they came from so that's a bonus.
In 1930, Margaret ( Meggie) Lynn, nee Smith, died in Great Ouseburn. She was a 2 x great aunt. I think I have a photograph some where - I'll dig it out.....
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On 8th April 1859 my GG grand uncle Charles Shearer Brown married Jessie Herd in Kilconquhar, Fife. He was the younger brother of my GG grandmother Rachel and the 3rd child of my 3xG grandparents William Brown and Elisabeth Scott. His father was a mariner from Earlsferry in Fife and Charles takes his name from a mariner who died shortly before his birth.
On 8th April 1896 my great grand aunt Agnes Bell McEwan was born in New Monkland poorhouse to my GG grandmother Hannah Greer. Her father is registered as my GG grandfather Robert McEwan but I doubt this as he had gone to America 2 years previously. He did come back for a time but not I think in time to be any part in this child's conception unless it was a very long pregnancy. The Bell part of her name is also a puzzle as it doesn't play any part in the previous names of either Robert or Hannah's families. There is no record for Hannah applying for poor relief so my thinking is that this birth took place in the hospital wing of the poorhouse and she was not actually a resident.
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Yes, lovely picture put what an awful way to die :(
8 April 1855, my 5xgreat-grandmother Cornelia Bergman died in Ter Aar, Zuid-Holland aged 74. She was a widow of German tailor Frans Levahrt, who had died in 1836. Cornelia had had a daughter before she was married, who is my ancestor.
8 April 1871, my 4xgreat-grandfather Isaac Tivey died in Dudley, Worcestershire aged 68. His death probably came as a relief. Isaac had a very hard life. He was declared bankrupt and served in debtor's gaol in 1856, and struggled with alcoholism, delirium tremens and a head tumour. He attempted suicide on 7 July 1869 by cutting his throat with a razor, but his thick beard saved him. He was found slumped over a fence in a field called "Soldier's Leascowe" in Snow Hill, Sedgley, Staffordshire. He was arrested and after a trial released into the care of his son and son-in-law in Dudley. He was living with his son, working as a tailor, on the 1871 census, six days before he died.
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On 8 April,
Eliza Stanton my 2 x g.g.aunt was baptised in Pinchbeck, Lincs in 1832
John Dye my 2 x g.g.uncle was baptised at St Mary’s Parish Church, Newton Flotman, Newton, Norfolk in 1821
John Hardy my husband’s 2 x g.grandfather was baptised at St Lawrence Church, Denton, Lancashire in 1821.
George Edward Leighton (Lighton) my 1st cousin 3 times removed was baptised at St Botolph’s Church, Boston, Lincolnshire in 1842
Seth Hobson Burgess my 1st cousin once removed was buried in Southern Cemetery, Manchester, in 1914. He was 3 years old. At the time of the 1911 census, his parents showed they had had 4 children, but one had died. Seth was born after the 1911 census, but he too died. The others all lived to adulthood. They were my mother’s cousins and she often spoke of them, they are probably on her wedding photographs but I never got her to point out the people there.
John Collett my 1st cousin 3 times removed married Mary Penny at Stoke Damerel, Devon in 1857
Elias Dyke and Catherine Manton my husband’s 4 x g.grandparents married in Budbrooke, Warwick in 1793.
And last but not least my granddaughter Jorgia was born in Manchester, Connecticut in 1997. Happy 16th Birthday Jorgia.
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Margaret Thatcher died today, 2013 .....
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I expect reactions will be very mixed.
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Getting in quite early today, 4 year old granddaughter coming for 2 days - pity I'm not so young as I was when her elder brothers aged 21 and 19 used to come over to play. :(
On 9 April
William Daintree and Margret Porter my 9 x g.grandparents were married at Holy Trinity Church, Cambridgeshire in 1635
Ann Day died my 3 x g.g aunt died in Osbournby, Lincolnshire in 1788. She was 1 year old.
John Pemberton buried was buried at St Helen’s Church, Witton, Cheshire in 1837
William Wane my 6 x g.grandfather was buried at St Cuthbert’s Church, Aldingham, Lancashire in 1733
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My 6 x great grandfather John Lee was baptised at Mirfield today in 1671
He married Sarah Mellar and they had 2 children
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My beloved dad Bernard was born on 9th April 1924. He died in 2006 and I think about him every single day. He was my pal and I miss him badly. I wish I could have told him about the family history I've discovered too, sadly my reseach only began after he died - a lesson not to leave things too late to start.
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On April 9th 1886 my great great grandparents Robert McEwan and Hannah Greer (they of the top of the page) married in the Flowerhill parish church manse in Airdrie. He was 20 and she just 16. Robert was born in Coalisland, County Tyrone and Hannah in Drumgelloch, Lanarkshire, though her parents were both Irish. Her mother I know only that she was born in Ireland, at present I don't have a specific location. Her father came from a farming family in Ballinderry, County Antrim. Hannah was their eldest child.
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I have a few deaths and one birth on 9 April
Sadly, my 3rd cousin, Percy Alfred Thomas Godley, died in France during WW1, in 1917, aged only 19. What a waste of a young life.
My 2nd cousin 2 x removed, Leroy J Conquest, died in 1953, in Saginaw, Michigan, USA.
My husband's maternal grandfather, Archibald John Prior, died in Edmonton, Middlesex, in 1957, aged 82.
Finally, my great uncle, William John Marshall, was born in Deptford, Kent, in 1862. I wish I could find out more about him, the only one of my maternal grandfather's siblings who I know nothing about after the 1881 census.
Ann
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Sally Booth, my great great grandmother was born today at Marple in Cheshire in 1830 and baptised later at Mill Brow Independent in Derbyshire.
She married George Jackson at Stockport in 1850.
The first four children did not survive infancy, but she had five more, though one of those died in childbirth as an unmarried mother.
George had moved to Dodworth near Barnsley to become a mine manager in 1861, and Sally and the family had soon followed.
Sally died of an obstructed bowel in 1872 in Dodworth. George moved to nearby Carlton to start a new mine but died of Bright's disease in 1879, and was buried with Sally at Dodworth
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On this day in 1883 my 4xG grandmother Sarah McVey died in Glasgow City Poorhouse. She is described as a pauper and former cotton winder. Her husband had died 20 years previously and the other two entries on the page, Margaret France and James Henderson were also poorhouse inmates. Sarah was born and married in Ireland and first moved to Scotland sometime after the birth of her son Samuel (my 3x G grandfather) in 1837 and the birth of her next child in 1842 so around the time of the potato famine.
It is a sad end but this certificate gave me her parents and introduced another name into my search, that of Campbell. I do hope they are nothing to do with the treacherous Campbells of Glencoe infamy.
Today would have been my grandmother Elizabeth Wardlaw's birthday. I was only 7 years old when we last saw each other but I still remember the day she gave me a bright red tricycle for my birthday and on which my sister Elizabeth was usually a pillion passenger. I visited her grave in Scotland last summer and with the help of another RCer, Mosstrooper tidied it up and left red roses. I shall do the same again this year.
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On 10 April
William Hobson my 2 x g.g.uncle was born in Lockwood, Almondbury, Yorkshire in 1802
Robert Collettmy 3rd cousin once removed was born in Westleton, Suffolk in 1908
Martha Collett my 4 x g.g.aunt was baptised in Wilby, Suffolk in 1726
Arthur Hobson my g.g.uncle and brother of Enos below was baptised in 1859 at St John the Evangelist Church, Denby, Yorkshire, despite being 3 years older than Enos. I guess their parents went for a two for one baptism, which is what they did with 2 of their other children. Interestingly, Ancestry has transcribed the baptism as 10 March, so I’ve checked but the parish record definitely shows 10 April. I think the transcriber just assumed it was March, because the record above shows a baptism on 7 March.
Enos Hobson my g.g.uncle and brother of Arthur above was also baptised at St John the Evangelist Church, Denby, Yorkshire on the same day as Arthur. He was just over 2 months old.
Robert Middleton my 4 x g.grandfather died at Millom, Cumberland in 1839. The cause of his death is just shown on his death certificate as Accidental Death. I’ve searched for newspaper reports to see if anything shows up, but I’ve been unsuccessful as has a helpful Rootschatter. Interestingly, his gravestone has been carved with the date he was buried 12 April, rather than the date he died, even though the description of the stone (which I haven’t seen) states “Upright stone, good to read”. I wonder how often this happened, one of my 4 x g.grandmother’s gravestone shows her as dying in 1808 when she actually died in 1805 and was buried in 1805.
Thomas Hobson, my 2 x g.g.uncle was buried at St John the Evangelist Church, Denby, Yorkshire in 1831. He was the uncle of Arthur and Enos Hobson above.
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Jane Stilwell and William Chitty married today at Thursley Surrey in 1664.
Jane was from Thursley but William was a yeoman from Godalming.
They had just one son (William Junior) and Jane died in 1701
William remarried Elizabeth Mackrell in Peper Harow in 1705, and died in 1725
William and Jane were my 7 X great grandparents
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Born today in 1866 in London my gt. aunt, Elizabeth Mary Ann Barham; daughter of George William and Elizabeth Mary Ann (nee Burgess). Elizabeth married William Hosler, a cab man, in 1884 at St. Bartholomew, Moor Lane, London. So far I've found 14 children for the couple but 5 died as infants. Elizabeth was a paper box maker. She died in 1952, 5 years after William, and is buried, as are so many of my London families, in Manor Park Cemetery, Newham.
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My husband's uncle, Ralph John James Hitch was born on 11 April 1907 in Enfield, Middlesex. He left home to work for the Earl of Yarborough at Brocklesby Hall, Lincolnshire, eventually becoming the Earl's butler. He met his future wife in the village of Great Limber, part of the Brocklesby estate, and after their marriage in 1938, they bought and ran a corner shop in Cleethorpes.
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Susanna Binns my husband’s 2 x g.g.aunt was born in Warwickshire in 1821
Matilda Whittaker my husband’s g.g.aunt was baptised at Hatherlow Congregational Church, Hatherlow, Stockport, Cheshire in 1833
Esther Addison my 6 x g.g.aunt was baptised in Dalton in Furness, Lancashire in 1708
John Cockett my 4 x g.g.uncle died in Gedney, Lincolnshire in 1797. He was the eldest son of my 5 x g.grandfather with his first wife. She died when John was about a year old and his father re-married and had another son when John was aged 2. The family lived together for another couple or so years, but when he was about 5, his father died and his mother re-married, so that John was then living with two adults to whom he wasn’t related. In 1753, when John was aged 8, he was apprenticed in husbandry to a Wm Bennett as a “poor child”.
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Samuel Knight, my 5 greats grandfather, was born today in 1731 in Denton Lancs to JOhn Knight and Ann Broomly
Samuel became a butcher in Denton
He married Mary Platt at Manchester Cathedral in 1756
My direct ancestor his son George died early in 1787 so is not mentioned in Samuel's will.
Samuel also gets in early for tomorrow as he died tomorrow 13th April in 1806. He was buried in St Lawrence's Denton.
Also 4 x great grandparents Martha Heginbotham and RObert Wood married today in 1789 at St Mary's Stockport.
Robert was a weaver and had 6 children but burial of both seem to elude me
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Jane Ware, a 1st cousin 4R, born today in 1843 in Burghfield, Berkshire; daughter of James and Hannah (nee Allwright). She was baptised a few months later at St. Mary the Virgin, Burghfield. Jane married John Hobbs in 1866 and 2 children were born; Elizabeth Annie and Harry. On 1891 census Jane is shown as a "plain needlewoman". John died and 1879 and Jane in 1899; both are buried in London Road cemetery, Reading.
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Lots of inter-related ancestors featuring today.
On 12 April
John Hobson my 2 x g.g.uncle was born in Almondbury, Yorkshire in 1798
Thomas Benson my 3 x g.g.uncle and g.g.uncle of Thomas Henry Benson below was born in Scales, Ulverston, Lancashire in 1790
Thomas Henry Benson my g.uncle and son of Thomas Boulton Benson below was born in Hull, Yorkshire in 1880
Thomas Boulton Benson, my g.grandfather and g.nephew of Thomas Benson above was baptised in Dalton in Furness, Lancashire in 1857
Samuel Collett my 7 x g.g.uncle and 3 x g.g.uncle of Samuel Collett below was baptised in Westerfield, Suffolk in 1631
Samuel Collett my 2 x g.g.uncle was baptised in Fressingfield, Suffolk in 1801
Elisabeth Stanton my 5 x g.g.aunt and aunt of Luce Stanton below was baptised in Rippingale, Lincolnshire in 1734
Luce (Lucy) Stanton my 4 x g.g.aunt was baptised in Heckington, Lincolnshire in 1773
Samuel Done my 4 x g.g.uncle was baptised in Weaverham, Cheshire in 1761.
Robert Middleton my 4 x g.grandfather was buried at Holy Trinity Church, Millom, Cumberland in 1839
James Uffindel and Elisabeth Plane my 6 x g.grandparents married at Holy Trinity Church, Haddenham, Cambridgeshire in 1732
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My father Reginald Elliott Wilson was born on 12 April 1908 in Leytonstone, London. It was he who sparked my interest in family history, when I came across the notes he had made about his research, after he died. Unfortunately, in the last few years of his life he became very difficult and for some reason destroyed many family photos - I'm just glad his notes didn't go the same way. He would have been amazed at what I've been able to find out, although I have never got back any further than he did with the Wilson ancestors.
The other anniversary I have for this day is a sad one. My maternal great uncle Edwin Arthur Conquest was killed at Isham Railway Station, Northamptonshire. He was 67. No-one knows how he came to fall from the train - I suppose I could try to investigate, but so far haven't done so.
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Martha Pierce my 4 greats grandmother was born today in Colnbrook Buckinghamshire in 1775
When nearly six her father was brutally murdered. Hester her mother was left with 4 children to raise. It seems her husbands brother probably helped.
In 1800 she married George Boyce (who was from Winkfield Berks) in Ealing.
Their first child was born at Colnbrook - probably at mother's house, but the rest were born in Egham. George had started a Bakery on Egham Hill, and they lived there the rest of their lives.
Martha died in 1851
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Born today in 1888 in London, a 1st cousin 2R, Arthur Burgess; son of Robert Richard and Eliza Elizabeth (nee Hall). Arthur was a waterside labourer. He married twice; first in 1906 to Harriet Elizabeth Haines, with whom he had 6 children, and after her death in 1927 he married Elsie Miriam Cecelia Breden in 1928. Arthur died in 1965 in Rotherhithe.
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On 13 April
William Brand and Alice Gilchrist my 2 x g.grandparents and grandparents of Thomas Henry Cockett below, were married at St Nicholas Church, Skirbeck, Lincolnshire in 1846. Alice was my mother’s g.grandmother and although my mother was born after she died, my mother’s older siblings knew her and she was always known as Grandma Brand to differentiate her from the other grandmother/g.grandmothers Alice.
Thomas Henry Cockett my grandfather was born at 55 Sycamore Street, Ancoats, Manchester in 1876. He died aged 46 when my mother was only 10, so I never knew him. He looks quite stern in photographs.
Henry Hobson my g.g.uncle and uncle of the wife of Thomas Henry Cockett’s above (my gran) was baptised at St John the Evangelist Church, Denby in 1852
John Dalby my 6 x g.g.uncle was baptised in Heapham, Lincolnshire in 1715
Mary Dyke my husband’s 3 x g.g.aunt was baptised at Budbrooke, Warwickshire in 1800
Frederick Pemberton my g.g.uncle died in Salford, Lancashire in 1912. Like many of my other ancestors he was a butcher.
Ellen Mary Alden my g.aunt (one of the daughters of my g.gran by her first marriage) died in Hull, Yorkshire in 1876. She was 2 years old and died of Rubeola (measles) for 7 days and Croup for 3 days. (A timely warning to the parents who didn’t want their children vaccinated against measles that it was a killer and still can be).
Marie Dameron my 10 x g.g.aunt died in Westerfield, Ipswich in 1623. In her father’s will she was left “one hundred pounds to be paid her by my Executors in manner and form following, that is to say at her day of marriage forty pounds and so forth yearly £20 a year till the said £100 be paid”. If any of the sisters died before marriage, the money was to be shared between the other 2 sisters. Nothing is mentioned about what was to happen should none of them marry. I suppose if that happened the money would be shared between the brothers who did not have to marry to get their inheritance.
William Mutton my 4 x g.g.uncle was buried at St Guthlac Church, Crowland, Lincolnshire in 1748. He was just over 4 years old.
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I've been working away this week and I have missed a few dates but nothing hugely important.
Today in 1972, my great uncle, Norman Grant Raitt died in Aberdeen. I had some contact with his grandson a few years ago when he was doing a bit of family history research but have lost touch again now.
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ON this day today my great x 3 gradfather Thomas Pullen was baptised in Bishops Frome Herefordshire
He married Sarah Bannister in 1825
There were a series of bad events in the family in the 1840's - they must have been dirt poor
He was an ag lab
In 1843, his sons Benjamin ( my ggf) and Thomas jun were convicted of stealing some bread cheese and bacon.
Benjamin was sent dnw for 9 months and THomas six
In 1845 Thomas jun offended again - stealing a sack of potatoes
He was transported to Van Diemens Land and remained there.
In 1846 Thomas sen was convicted of leaving his family chargeable to the parish of Bosbury.
He was sent to prison for 21 days and his family were removed to Brimyard union workhouse.
He was given as blind in 1861 annd 1871 and died in 1874.
He had a hard life
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I have a few ancestors for 14th April, but the one I'll mention today is my 3xgt grandmother, Elizabeth Cleal, who died on this day in 1887 from bronchitis, which she was certified as having for 7 days. She was only 68.
She's an interesting lady (but aren't they all when you get closer!). I've never managed to confirm her birth - the censuses say 1818 in Bath but she was brought up in North Perrott, Somerset and never moved out of it.
She married Mark Saint in 1837 and they proceeded to have at least 13 children, a significant number of whom didn't make it to adulthood :'( Two of those who did, Eve and Hannah, both married my gg grandfather, John Abbott. Lots of interesting stories about this family......
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Two births today:
Albert Morgan/Rainer, a 1st cousin 2R, born in 1912 in Croydon; son of Daisy Gertrude Charlotte Rainer and, possibly, Henry Morgan. I don't have the cert so can't confirm but he was registered with both surnames. Sadly little Albert died in the same year.
My 3xgt. uncle, Joseph Pain, born in 1826 in Woolwich, son of John Pain and Elizabeth. He was baptised a few weeks later at St. Mary Magdalene, Woolwich. John worked in the family pub and when his father died in 1855 he went from barman to licenced victualler. He married Martha Emily Allen in November 1862 in Woolwich but died at the pub in May 1863. He is buried in Woolwich cemetery.
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Two today, both great grand aunts. On 14th April 1863 Grace Tweedie was born in Bathgate. She was the
4th child and second daughter of my GG grandparents John Tweedie and Rachel Brown, her siblings being, Robert, Elizabeth, William, Agnes Weir Tweedie (my great grandmother), Elizabeth (first one died), James and Rachel. I have two Brown families in my line, one from Bo'ness, where I have been quite successful so far and Rachel Brown's line from Fife, where I am struggling. It doesn't help that all the males seem to be called William and Brown is the 4th most common name in the UK and second most common in Scotland. Tweedie is easier as that is only the 3386th most common. I have had more luck by switching to Rachel's maternal line.
On 14th April 1893 Elizabeth Tweedie (sister of the above Grace) married Charles Wallace in Armadale. Charles was a byreman from Comely Bank in Edinburgh and Elizabeth a dairymaid, so it seems romance blossomed among the hay in the cattle shed. The witnesses were her youngest sister Rachel and my great grandfather George Wardlaw, who had married her sister Agnes three years previously. He was returning the favour as Elizabeth had been a witness to that marriage. Rachel, Elizabeth, Grace and Agnes are common names in my family and my mother's four sisters were each christened with one of them, Rachel being my avatar.
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On 14 April
James Frederick Hobson my 1st cousin once removed was born in Salford, Lancashire in 1912
Mary Baxter my 6 x g.g.aunt was born in Heckington, Lincolnshire in 1705
William Collett my 1st cousin 3 times removed was baptised in Suffolk in 1822
Anne Francke my 9 x g.g.aunt was baptised in Morton by Bourne, Lincolnshire in 1582
Alice Todd (nee Sharpe) my 1st cousin 4 times removed died in Boston, Lincolnshire in 1923 aged 84.
Stanley Peacock my 2nd cousin once removed was buried Agecroft Cemetery, Salford in 1938. He was 17 and had died of pulmonary tuberculosis.
Richard Whittaker my husband’s first cousin twice removed and nephew of William Whittaker below was buried in Hyde, Cheshire in 1861, he was one year old.
William Whittaker & Eliza Louisa Clark my husband’s g.grandparents were married at The Register Office, Ashton under Lyne, Lancashire in 1873. As their first child was not born until 1875, I’m not sure why they chose a register office for their marriage, as their children were all baptised in a C of E church, and they were both buried in the graveyard of a C of E church. I suppose Eliza could have had a miscarriage. The 1911 census shows they had 4 children, 2 still living, but I’ve accounted for the 2 deceased children.
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My great great great grandfather William Bond was born today in 1784 in Denton, Lancs
Born into a hatmaking family he joned the business.
He married Ann Knight in 1803 at Manchester Cathedral, they had 7 children but three died young
WIlliam died in 1836, I don't know when Ann died, suspect she remarried
Bob
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3 births today:
My gt. aunt, Rose Louisa Kingsman, born in Kensington in 1904; daughter of John and Annie (nee George). Rose was baptised a month later at St. Clement, Notting Hill. She married Edward Harry Childs in 1924 in Kensington and they had 2 children. There are family stories of a split or divorce but Edward died in the bombing in WW2 and I lose track of Rose after that.
Mr 2xgt. uncle, Francis James Barham, born in 1838 in Cripplegate; son of Francis James and Isabella (nee Bailey). Francis married Eliza Storey in 1863 at St James, Shoreditch; I've found 8 children for them and Francis died in 1923 in Cheltenham with Eliza following him a few years later.
My 2xgt.grandmother, Charlotte Henman, born in 1838 in Tenterden, Kent; daughter of William and Sophia (nee Rose). She married Edward Rainer in 1857 in Ruckinge, Kent. Thirteen children were born, the majority of them girls, and all but one lived to marry and raise their own families. Edward was a farm labourer and the family moved around Kent, as shown by the various birthplaces of the children. Charlotte died in Foots Cray, Kent in 1907, three years after Edward, and is buried in Sidcup churchyard.
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On 15th April 1763 my 5xG grand uncle Alexander Gibb was born in Bo'ness. He was christened the next day, which seems a bit hasty and I wonder if he was not expected to survive. He was the son of my 6xG grandparents Alexander Gibb and Janet Snaddon or Sneddon. I can only find four siblings so far, Walter, Edward, Margaret and Richard. In all my research thus far, this is the only family I can find using the name Richard. Alexander's brother Walter (my 5xG grandfather) also gives it to one of his sons.
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Today in 1899, my great grandmother, Harriet Smith, nee Knight, died aged thirty-four. She was born in Staffordshire at somewhere known as Black Bull, which I believe was in the Brindley Ford area. She moved, with her parents and siblings, to Middlesbrough where she met John Smith, a puddler in the iron and steel works. She had seven children. Life must have been tough for her, I think and her mother was in prison for much of Harriet's child-bearing years so support from that direction was nil.
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Only a few distant ancestors today.
On 15 April
William Walter Gaunt my 2nd cousin 3 times removed was born in Stubbing, Yorkshire in 1830
Jeremiah Peat my 7 x g.g.uncle was baptised in Holme Cultram, Cumberland in 1683
Mabil Hobson my 1st cousin 4 times removed was baptised as All Hallows Church, Almondbury, Yorkshire in 1810. Her father was a dry salter, as was her grandfather (my 4 x g.grandfather). Whether they intended to spell her name Mabil, I don’t know but that is how it is written in the parish records – although Ancestry has transcribed it as Mabel.
John Mutton my 4 x g.g.uncle was baptised in Thorney, Cambridge in 1741
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I'm probably not going to be able to post for a couple of days so here are some of mine for this week.
16th April 1777, Amey Lush died aged two years, in Portsmouth. She was a 6 x great aunt.
1901 - My great grandfather, John William Smith, died in Middlesbrough aged thirty-eight. His widow had another child some seven years later and claimed him as the father! ;D
19th April 1652, Edward Littlefair was baptised in Gateshead -a 9 x great uncle.
That's all folks. I'll be back with more at the end of the week. :)
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On this day in 1732 Mary Barlow and John Hallworth, my 6 X great grandparents married at Stockport
I have not traced the birth of either
They had 6 children baptised at Poynton to the S of Stockport
Similarly I know when neither died
Have been rooting around wills to see if it helps with IDing the death (it worked for John Hallworth jun)
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On this day in 1895, my great grandparents Elizabeth Mary Abbott and Henry Slade, both of North Perrott, Somerset were married. Elizabeth was the granddaughter of the fascinating Elizabeth Cleal I posted about a few days ago. Great grandma was the first legitimate daughter of Ellen Saint and John Abbott, since Ellen was a) under age when daughter number one appeared and b) the marriage was illegal anyway because of John's first wife being Ellen's sister.....
What I remember of this side of my family is that they were oh-so-proper ::)
While on the subject of the twice-married-to-two-sisters gg grandfather, John Abbott - he was the second John Abbott born to John and Hannah Abbott. The first one was baptised on this day in 1826 but died when he was 8 :'(
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2 today:
My gt.aunt, Edith Margeurita Pain, born 1895 in Plumstead; daughter of James Ottley and Amelia Sophia (nee Rainer). She was their 8th child. Edith, known in the family as Rita, married Joseph Henry Flahey in 1921 at St John the Baptist, Hoxton. Two daughters were born and Joseph died in 1965, Edith in 1978 and both are buried in Islington Cemetery.
My 2xgt. uncle Thomas Burgess, born in 1853 in London; son of Robert Richard and Elizabeth (nee Gandy).
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What I remember of this side of my family is that they were oh-so-proper
AngelaR, if my experience is anything to go by the ones in the family who had the least reason to be "oh-so-proper" were exactly the ones who were. ::)
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Only a few today.
On 16 April
Esther Cockett (nee Lank) my 4 x g.grandmother was baptised at Little Bytham, Lincolnshire in 1749
Sarah Gaunt my 3 x g.g.aunt was baptised in Denby, Yorkshire 1756. She died in January 1758.
Thomas Dameron my 10 x g.g.uncle was baptised in Westerfield, Suffolk in 1543. He is one of the siblings whose mother is unknown. I need to go to Suffolk Archives to search all through the parish records to find a marriage. In Thomas’ father’s will he only refers to her as “my wife”, no name given.
Eleanor (Ellen) Tubbs my 2 x g.g.aunt was buried at All Saints Church, Holbeach in 1846. She was 18 years of age. I don’t know her cause of death as I haven’t bought her death certificate
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And some for tomorrow, as I may well be off line as we're changing ISP and going for superfast broadband.
On 17 April
Thomas Henry Benson my g.uncle married Alice Eliza Smith (nee Pocock) at The Register Office, St Pancras, London in 1915. Alice’s first husband died sometime between 1911 and 1914, when there was an application for the 2 youngest children of her 6 children to be admitted to Metropolitan & City Police Orphanage. The 4th child who was only 1 month old in 1901 must have died, because he is not on the 1911 census. Whether they ever went there I don’t know. I’ve been told by Alice’s granddaughter that her 2nd marriage to my g.uncle was much happier than her first and that his stepchildren loved him. The 2 youngest children are listed on my g.uncle’s army discharge papers.
William Stanton and Elizabeth Litle my 10 x g.grandpparents were married at Morton by Bourne, Lincolnshire in 1599.
Henry Collett my 7 x g.grandfather was born at Westerfield, Suffolk in 1635
Elizabeth Tubbs my 2 x g.g.aunt was born in Holbeach, Lincolnshire in 1836
Agnes Postlethwaite my 5 x g.g.aunt was baptised in Kendal, Westmorland in 1726
John Collett my 3 x g.g.uncle was buried in Stradbroke, Suffolk in 1762. He was 3 months old.
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Today 16th April, 190 years ago my 3xgreat grandfather John Titshall was born, 16th April 1823 in Hacheston, Suffolk. He shares a birthday with my uncle Kev who is 54 today.
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Elizabeth Denyer nee Trigg was buried today in Godalming Surrey ahed about 63
She was born in Dorking in 1647 to Henry Trigg and Jane, Henry was a tallow chandler.
Elizabeth married George Denyer of Godalming , a mercer. HOwever I have found a marriage record, but must have been 1667-1673
Her father's will, hwe mother's will, three chancery cases and other docs all refer to her so there is no doubt that Elizabeth Denyer was originally Trigg
They had three children. Elizabeth's father died in 1671 and mother in 1680
The chancery cases were in 1682 and 1685
Elizabeth's brother Henry married Temperance Finch but Henry jun died in 1683
Temperance sued George Denyer who was one of the executors - twice and Elizabeth's brother John once. The last case was under her remarried name of Temperance Smithers.
There was a lot of property
I dont really know how it turned out.
George died a year before Elizabeth
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I'm sure there are others but I have been spending every spare moment on by Browns at the moment so will pop two of them up.
On April 18th 1813 Robert Brown was born in Corbiehall, Bo'ness. He was the son of my 4xG grandparents John Brown and Janet Gibb and brother of my 3xG grandfather Walter Brown. Robert's first trade was as a baker but by 1851 was a grocer, I suspect in cahoots with his brother Thomas. He married Isabella Galloway in 1854. She was born in Polmont, Stirlingshire in 1818 to Roper Galloway and Catherine Scrimegour. You would think with a name like Scrimegour, tracking would be easy but not when it's transcribed as wildly as Acrinzlour and Acrimzeaur. When they married Robert was 41 and Catherine 36, not suprisingly there were only two children. John, born in Bo'ness in 1855 was the first. Between this birth and that of their daughter Catherine Scrimegour Brown two years later he had moved to Muiravonside leaving the grocery in Bo'ness to brother Thomas, who flourished and left two businesses and several properties in his will.
The couple settled into Almond Store Cottage in Muravonside. My thoughts are that this was a semi-detached cottage as the Pollack family share this address in 1881. Robert is still a grocer and Mary Pollack 25 is a grocer saleswoman so possibly working for Robert as I suspect was his daughter Catherine, 24 at this time. Robert and Isabella both died in Muiravonside, Robert in 1886 and Isabella 5 years later in 1891.
Almond Cottage it seems may still exist and is on my lengthening list of 'to visit' list when I am next in Scotland.
On April 18th 1832, John Brown was born in Bo'ness. The son of my 3xG grandparents Walter Brown and Margaret Dunlop and nephew of the above Robert and like his father and grandfather before him, a blacksmith.
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On this day my great grandfather was born in 1957 at Froom's Hill Herefordshire near Bishops Frome
I don't believe his birth was registered, by Dad knew his DOB
By the age of 4 his family had moved to Worcestershire.
William became a gardener, and in his sapre time learnt to play the cornet
He married Lucy Ann Holmes at St Clement's in Worcester in 1883
They had three children who survived after one who did not
William had become head Gardener to the Hudson family in Wick near Pershore
He was lead of Pershore Town Band and knew Edward Elgar (who remember was for some time leader of the Asylum Band)
After some illnesses, his wife died in 1906.
By 1911 he had relocated with a part of the Hudson family to Staines, Middlesex, where he gardened a building called Duncroft
During this time he was leader of Staines Town Band
In March quarter 1917 he married again - Florence Ada Keefe nee Stone in Brentford dist
Sometime not long after this they moved to Tongham Hampshire
Willima had a brief spell as a coal merchant there
HE revived the town band there, and my Dad remembers visiting him there.
In the attached picture he is centre
Back rown Ada (my grandmother) , William's 2nd wife and stepdaughter
Front My Aunt Cicely who died 3 years ago, William, my late Uncle Fred who died in Australia about 23 years ago.
William died at Farnham County Hospital in 1943 and was buried in Ash Cemetery. There is no headstone there.
Also on this day his son of the same name William Henry Pullen jun was born in 1886 in St John's Worcester
Willliam was a gardener, also labourer at one time.
He twice enlisted in the Army at WW1 but was discharged as unfit for war service due to epilepsy.
In between the two he married Margaret Fisher at Staines.
By the 1930's he was in Ashford Workhouse - essentially the hospital as he had declined mentally. He had already had two children.
He died in 1950 in Tooting Bec Mental Hospital in 1950.
Picture of him in army uniform
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Today, 18th April, is my birthday, and I am rather disappointed that I haven't been able to find anyone in my tree who shares this birth date! Of course, for many of them I only have a year of birth, so perhaps more research will reveal someone........
However, I do have one anniversary - my 2x great grandparents John Hatch and Mariann Brewer were married on this day in 1842, in Bristol. John was a tailor and he and Mariann were born in Wedmore, Somerset. Although I have found Mariann in 1851 and 1861, I have not been able to locate John after 1841.
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Happy birthday Quest, do you know where they married in Bristol, I could pop and photograph it for you if it still exists.
I did have some for today but put them up yesterday thinking yesterday was today, thankfully none of you lovely people posted after them till today so they are now in the correct place ;D
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Hi Seoras,
What a lovely birthday surprise a photo of the church would be - thank you for the offer :)
I wonder if it does still exist - the marriage certificate says 'the Parish Church in the Parish of St Mary Redcliff'.
I shall look forward to finding out if a photo is possible.
Regards, Ann
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Hi Ann, it certainly does still exist, here it is on the link. A very old and beautiful church too. I will pop along and take some more.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary_Redcliffe
George.
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Hi George,
Thanks for the link, what a beautiful church. I should have looked it up before, but I'd rather forgotten about this side of the family until I started looking for April anniversaries for this thread.
Ann
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Actually Ann I don't think I need to trundle off with my camera, you will find lots of photos of St. Mary's here.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=st+mary+redcliffe+church+bristol&rls=p,com.microsoft:en-gb:IE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7DKUK_en&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=zfNvUbf_EOeY1AXkyYCICQ&ved=0CIIBELAE&biw=1024&bih=596
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What a wonderful selection of photos, thank you so much for finding them, George. As you say, Google Images have saved you a trip! I had no idea that John and Mariann got married in such a magnificent church.
Ann
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Many people think it's Bristol Cathedral - but that's a different building; more square.
Queen Elizabeth I liked St Mary Redcliffe - she called it "the fairest, goodliest and most famous parish church in England".
I think she was right! ;D
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I thought I'd got loads for today, good job I did a preview and realised I'd added all tomorrow's ancestors too. ::)
On 18 April
John Stanton my 3 x g.grandfather was baptised in Heckington, Lincolnshire in 1799
Jonathan Benson my 4 x g.g.uncle was baptised in Wigton, Cumberland in 1785
John Luckorish my husband’s 4 x g.g.uncle was baptised in Leamington Hastings, Warwickshire in 1760
Sarah Woodward my 1st cousin 4 times removed was baptised in Frodsham, Cheshire in 1819. She married in 1838 but died in 1849 aged 30. I’ve not bought her death certificate to find out the cause of death as her relationship is not close enough.
Alice Todd (nee Sharp) and other 1st cousin 4 times removed was buried in Boston, Lincolnshire in 1923.
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On this day William BOnd my great great great grandfather died in Denton Lancs
See the 15th April (his birth date) for further
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On April 19 1752 Edward Gibb was born in Bo'ness. He was the second son of my 6xG grandparents Alexander Gibb and Janet Sneddon and younger brother of my 5xG grandfather Walter. I have much to thank Edward for as it was his name, little used in my family, that helped me trace back further.
On the very same day that year in Kirknewton John Wardlaw was born, the eldest child of my 5xG grandparents John Wardlaw and Barbara Smith. His sisters Christian and Mary were also born in Kirknewton before the family moved to Ratho where his brothers George and Peter (my 4xG grandfather) were born.
On 19th April 1918 the dear lady in my avatar was born in Cornwall. She was neither my mother nor grandmother, though she belonged to the latter generation. However she became both those and best friend all rolled into one. Infuriating, frustrating, artistic, eccentric, funny and kind, she was all those. I sat with her when she died at home where thanks to the wonderful Macmiilan nurses I had managed to keep her, and can add brave to that list. She may not have been my bloodline but is as much a part of my family history as any who are.
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On 19 April
Herbert Hanley my 1st cousin twice removed married Ann Jane Cummings in Calton Parish Church, Glasgow in 1904
Edward Dye my 2 x g.g.uncle was baptised at St Mary’s Parish Church, Newton Flotman, Newton, Norfolk in 1835
Betty Benson my 1st cousin 5 times removed was baptised at Kirkby Ireleth, Lancashire in 1789 at the same time as her sister Ann Benson. Strangely, Betty was born in 1784 and despite having a sibling baptised in 1787, her parents waited until 1789 to baptise her. Whether the sister baptised in 1787 was ill and it was a rushed baptism, or Betty was ill so they waited to baptise her, we’ll never know.
Ann Harper my husband’s 4 x g.g.aunt was baptised at St Nicholas Church, Liverpool, Lancashire in 1786
Maria Singleton my 6 x g.g.aunt was baptised at St Peter’s Church, Huddersfield, Yorkshire in 1657
Jonathan Skelton my 5 x g.g.uncle was baptised at Holme Cultram, Cumberland in 1752
John Hobson my 4 x g.grandfather died at Lockwood, Almondbury, Yorkshire in 1800 aged 49. He left a widow and 9 children but, fortunately, the youngest child was 14. He was a drysalter and shopkeeper so I imagine his family were left enough funds to live on. Certainly his will goes on, and on, and on and covers 4 sheets of paper. He mentions all his living children, including a son called William. However, I cannot find a baptism for William (all his siblings baptised at Almondbury Parish Church, Yorkshire) so I have no idea when William was born. I know he married in 1804 when he was presumably at least 16 making a birth of 1788 or earlier. As the youngest sibling I’ve found was baptised in 1786, I imagine that William was older than that.
William Sharp my 1st cousin 4 times removed was buried in Boston, Lincolnshire in 1830. He was just over one year old.
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On 19 April 1742 my ancestor Edward Crowsley died in Kempston, Bedfordshire, aged 57. I have discovered that he is both my 5 x great grandfather and 7 x great grandfather. This is because my 2 x great grandparents, William Crowsley and Catherine Ashwell, were both descended from him. Compiling the family tree on Ancestry has been awkward because I haven't been able to make it cope with this scenario! Still, I know the relationships now, so I can work it out for myself!
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On this day, 20th April, in 1974 my Grandmother died aged 82.
She was very special to me - probably the third biggest influence on my life after my parents - and I was special to her - she'd had two sons and then twin grandsons before I showed my face. :D :D I am named after her!
She was an amazing woman - always with an extra person in her home being cared for, always with delicious meals for any uninvited guests. She made the best of dress-ups from the stuff in her 'junk room' - the stand-out memory is the black hairy spider outfit she made for my brother! Her junk room very full of bits and pieces - but woe-betide anyone who touched it as she could find anything ;D - her eyesight was very poor.
She was strict, generous and funny, and she didn't believe in wasting time - ever! - her presents were always thoughtful, useful and from left field, and always wrapped in secondhand paper with reused cards carefully cut out. Shades of the depression no doubt. ;D ;D
When she was 70, she took me to Perth, W.A. with her to visit her sister - a four day journey involving four train changes there and the same coming home. We had a wonderful time - but she saw very little of it.
This is how I best remember her!
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What a lovely tribute Wiggy.
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On 20 April
John Howard my husband’s 3 x g.g.uncle was born in Liverpool, in 1793
George Hardy my husband’s 2 x g.g.uncle was born in Denton, Lancashire in 1831
Mary Ann Mumby (nee Stanton) my 2 x g.grandmother was baptised in St Mary’s Church, Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire in 1821.
James Bagshawe my 8 x g.g.uncle was baptised in Bradfield, Yorkshire in 1622
Thomas Dameron my 9 x g.g.uncle was baptised in Westerfield, Suffolk in 1561. He died 6 days later.
Margaret Postlethwaite my 4 x g.g.aunt was baptised in Pennington in Furness, Lancashire in 1760. She died 10 days later.
William Ernest Singline my 2nd cousin twice removed died in Falmouth, Tasmania in 1948.
Maria Wright, formerly Alden, nee Collett my g.grandmother married John Alden in 1865 in St Nicholas Church, Gt.Yarmouth, Norfolk. John Alden was her first husband and at the time of her 6th child’s birth, he was shown as deceased on the birth certificate. No death has been found, so it’s possible he died at sea. A few years later she took up with my g.grandfather, but no marriage has ever been found. Whether Maria didn’t want to re-marry as she wasn’t sure her husband was deceased, or whether George who was a lot younger than Maria already had a wife somewhere has never been discovered.
John Hawkins and Annice Dyson my 6 x g.grandparents married at St Mary’s Church, Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire in 1696. They had 7 children that I have found, the 5th one became my 5 x g.grandmother.
John Dawson and Grace Jones my husband’s 3 x g.grandparents married in the Ancient Parochial Chapel of Oldham, Prestwich cum Oldham, Lancashire in 1813
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On this day John Palmer was baptised at Oundle in Northamptonshire in 1684 to John Palmer and Amey Austen. There are many baptisms to JP senior and junior, makes is hard to untangle.
John became a husbandman
John married Ann Jeakins in Oundle in 1706
John died in 1751, kleaving a will , which I have yet to obtain
John was my 6 great grandfather
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Abraham Wood - another 6 x great grandfather was baptised today at St Mary's Stockport to Abraham Wood
Abraham became a white limer - painting or whitewashing walls with lime wash.
He married an unknown Margaret
They had 5 children
Abraham died in 1765 leaving a will which I do have a copy of
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Three births today:
A 2xgt uncle James Burgess, born in 1855 in London, son of Robert Richard and Elizabeth (nee Gandy). I think he died in 1857 as he is not on any census with the family.
A 3xgt uncle, George Avery Kingsman, born in Holborn in 1825, son of Edward and Susanna (nee Leviston). He married Catherine Sarah Griffiths in 1847 at St. Giles without Cripplegate; his occupation given as pocket book maker. So far I've found 8 children born to the couple. George died in 1864 at Saffron Hill, Holborn.
My aunt, Lilian Alice Florence Barham , born in 1908 in Shoreditch; daughter of John Robert and Matilda Alice Eva (nee Pain). She was their first child. Lilian married Ernest Abrahams in 1929 at St. John the Baptist, Hoxton. They had five children but their first died when he was just 20 years old and their second died as a baby in the same year that Lilian's grandmother, mother and sister died. The family emigrated to Australia and Lilian died there in 2004.
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21st April 1923 - My grandfather Martin George Brown died of cancer. He was just 48. My mother was just 7 when he died, so she hasn't many memories of him - but she always loved the smell of pipe smoke, which reminded her of him.
He was an accountant with Griffiths brothers Teas (and I have memories of seeing their advertisements as I came into Melbourne on the train from Sydney. ;) ) He was a good tennis player and wanted to start a tennis academy apparently.
We've a few photos of him and he seems rather a handsome looking gent! ;D
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On this day in 1650, my 9 x great grandparents, Luke Lonsdale and Cicely Stringer, were married in Kirkby Fleetham, Yorkshire.
In 1707, 7 x great grandmother, Marthanna Marshall, was baptised in Tillingham Essex.
And in 1984, my niece was born in Wem, Shropshire. Happy birthday Hannah. How can you possibly be twenty-nine?
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Another month seems to have slipped by in a flurry of births, deaths, marriages and other significant days in our family trees.
It being April in some parts of the world already, I thought I'd best get on with creating the new thread for this month's anniversaries.
I hope those who have been doing so will keep posting and that there will be some new people joining us in this bit of harmless fun. :D
Thank you genjen
Elizabeth
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Just one birth today.
On 21 April 1885 my 2nd cousin once removed, Georgiana Kelly, was born in St Pancras, London.
She was the first daughter of John Andrew Kelly (of whom more later this month) and Georgiana Tyler. Unfortunately she died in 1901, aged only sixteen.
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On 21 April
David Lynch my 1st cousin twice removed was born in Manchester in 1890
Jane Dawson my husband’s 2 x g.g.aunt was born in Pilkington, Lancashire in 1831
Thomas Pemberton my g.uncle was baptised at St Laurence Church, Frodsham, Cheshire in 1850
Mary Ann Brand (nee Hanley) my g.g.aunt died in Crumpsall, Manchester in 1939
Samuel Baildon my 7 x g.grandfather was buried at All Hallows Church, Almondbury, Yorkshire in 1708
Ernest Cabourn Cockett my 1st cousin twice removed was buried in Gainsborough General Cemetery, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire in 1951
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On the 21st April 1972 my father died of a heart attack aged 50. I've missed him ever since.
Pat
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Pat, I feel just the same about my father who died thirty years ago at far too young an age. It was easier coping with my mother's death because she lived to a good age and I felt she was allowed to die. It's tough isn't it.
Today, I have two ancestors to remember.
In 1717, Hannah Bland, a 7 x great aunt, was baptised in Middleton in Teesdale.
And one hundred years later, in 1817, my 3 x great grandmother Thirza ( Thursa, Thirsa etc) French was baptised in Brightlingsea. Daughter of Robert French and Lucy Annis.
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On April 22 1775 my 4xG grandmother Janet Auld was born in Linlithgow and baptized the very next day. Her father Alexander is registered as 'a workman' which I take to be a labourer of some sort. I only know about Janet thanks to my 3xG grandfather James marrying a second time after statutory records came into being. His death cert has no parents mentioned but this marriage cert gives me his mother Janet and also tells me her husband my 4xG grandfather James Steen was a miller.
Skoosh, if you are browsing through this thread, the other entry on this marriage cert is surely one of your Meeks. Alexander Millar Meek, son of William Meek and Mary Millar. He is marrying Mary Gardner daughter of Robert Gardner and Jane Bird. One of the witnesses is Mary Meek.
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On April 22 1775 my 4xG grandmother Janet Auld was born in Linlithgow and baptized the very next day. Her father Alexander is registered as 'a workman' which I take to be a labourer of some sort. I only know about Janet thanks to my 3xG grandfather James marrying a second time after statutory records came into being. His death cert has no parents mentioned but this marriage cert gives me his mother Janet and also tells me her husband my 4xG grandfather James Steen was a miller.
Skoosh, if you are browsing through this thread, the other entry on this marriage cert is surely on of your Meeks. Alexander Millar Meek, son of William Meek and Mary Millar. He is marrying Mary Gardner daughter of Robert Gardner and Jane Bird. One of the witnesses is Mary Meek.
Oh how helpful your Scottish records are
None of interest for me today
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They certainly are useful stonechat. Then again I get payback with the Irish side where frustration is the usual outcome.
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On 22 April
Charles Gilchrist my 2nd cousin 3 times removed married Frances Mary Giddy at The Parish Church, Grimsby, Lincolnshire in 1903
Alice Hadfield (nee Whittaker) my husband’s 2 x g.g.aunt was baptised at Hatherlow Congregational Chapel, Hatherlow, Stockport, Cheshire, in 1818
Henry Collett my 7 x g.grandfather was baptised in 1638, apparently 3 years after his birth on 17 April 1635. I think this is wrong and he was probably baptised a few days after his birth. It makes no sense to wait 3 years, when his next brother was born in 1636 and baptised the same year.
William Bayldon my 4 x g.g.uncle was baptised at Almondbury Parish Church, Yorkshire in 1734
Robert Sale my husband’s 3 x g.g.uncle was baptised in Royton, Lancashire in 1804
Charles Lees my husband’s 3 x g.grandfather was buried at St Lawrence Church, Denton, Lancashire in 1870. He was the brother in law of Robert Sale above
Selina Stanton Benson (nee Mumby) my g.grandmother died in Hull, Yorkshire in 1901, aged 40. The cause of her death was malignancy of the uterus. She was already a widow and left 6 children, the youngest was only 8 and at the beginning of 1902 he was placed in an orphanage by his eldest brother (then aged 22) as he was joining the army.
And last but not least my grandson Luke was born in 1994. Happy 19th Birthday Luke.
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On 22 April 1954 my first cousin twice removed, Alfred Bernard Crowsley, died at the Cottage Hospital, Bovey Tracey, Devonshire, aged 73. I have only recently found this branch and know little about them, except that in 1911 Alfred was a head teacher at an elementary school in Abingdon, Berkshire.
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My great great great granfather George Boyce died today in 1854 in Egham.
He had been born in 1776, to George Boyce and Mary nee Milton. George senior was curate and schoolmaster at Winkfield.
He married Martha Pierce of Colnbrook in 1800 in Ealing (why Ealing)
The first of their children were born at Colnbrook, presumably at her mother's (her father being long deceased)
George set up a bakery at Egham Hill, in Surrey by 1805
They had 6 children, though two died not long after marriage and the grandson George Giles was also raised there.
As said earlier George died in 1854, Martha having died three years earlier.
There gravestone is still visible in St John's churchyard at Egham (George did not follow the Boyce tradition of burials at Winkfield) NO words are now legible now though a fragment of the inscription is recorded.
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Born today in 1875 in Shoreditch, London a 1st cousin 2R; Alice Butt, daughter of William Stephen Richard Dyke and Rachel Maria (nee Barham). William died about 6 months after Alice's birth. Alice died in 1877.
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On this day the English celebrate St. George's Day and just to prove awkward, I have two Scottish ancestors' anniversaries to post.
In 1757, Jean Martin, a 6 x great aunt was baptised in Belhelvie, Aberdeenshire.
And twelve years later, in 1769, Joseph Martin, her brother and therefore my 6 x great uncle, died aged twenty-two, also in Belhelvie.
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Only one I have is my 4xG grandmother Janet Auld from yesterday. She was baptized on the 23 April 1775. I would imagine in St. Michaels, where most of my Linlithgow crowd seem to be buried.
William Shakespeare was born and died on 23 April.
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Just a few distant ones today.
On 23 April
John Collett my 8 x g.g.uncle was born in Westerfield, Suffolk in 1588
Mary Hobson my 4 x g.g.aunt was baptised at St Peter’s Church, Huddersfield, Yorkshire in 1736. She was the second daughter to be named Mary. The first one was baptised in 1732 but I can’t find a death/burial for her.
Jennet Addison my 6 x g.g.aunt was baptised in Dalton in Furness, Lancashire in 1699
William Stanton my 8 x g.g.uncle was buried at St John the Baptist Church, Morton in Bourne, Lincolnshire in 1638. He was 10 years old.
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On 23 April 1738 my 4 x gt grandfather, William Conquest, was baptised at Cardington, Bedfordshire. He was the only one of eight children born to his parent William and Judith to survive to adulthood.
He was married to Elizabeth Hartwell in North Crawley, Buckinghamshire, in 1763, and died about 1800.
I was interested to find that a census was taken in Cardington in 1782 and that William and Elizabeth were then living in a cottage, occupying one of 3 tenements, along with their three children, aged 17, 14 and 8. I imagine it was rather crowded!
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Caroline Whateley my great great granmother was born today in Birmingham in 1825 to Richard Whateley and Elizabeth Woodward(s). Richard died in 1833 though
She was baptised at about 6 months old at St Phillips (the cathedral).
By the 1841 Census she was working as a female servant in Handsworth, but maybe she already had her eye on William Holmes whose family are living close to the remaining Whateleys in Birmingham
Problem researching the Whateleys is that they are often misspelled - Wheatley and Whetley
She married William in 1842 at Edgbaston.
They had 13 children, two of whom died young.
They clearly moved around a lot from the different churches for their children's baptisms.
One year after her last child was born, Caroline died in 1864 - maybe it was in childbirth - not got the cert. She was buried in her mother's home village of Packwood Warwickshire.
Eventually 6 of her children would emigrate - three to New York, Two to Armidale, New South Wales, and one to Winnipeg.
The oldest girl remaining at home, Susannah looked after the younger children and continued to look after my great grandmother Lucy Ann even after her own (Susannah's) marriage.
Other children were packed off to joined their already emigrated older siblings - even at only 14.
William later moved back to Worcester where he was born and died in 1880.
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Two births today:
My gt. uncle, David George Howard, in Kensington in 1913; son of John and Ellen Mary Eliza (nee Viney).....well actually always Viney as the couple never married! One of the children of my avatar Russian John. David married in 1935 and died in 1974.
My 2xgt.grandfather (I think), William Viney born in 1850 in Combe Down, Somerset to Henry and Eliza (nee Elliott). He was baptized the following month at Prior Park. A stone sawyer by trade he is shown as the father of Ellen Mary Eliza Viney (above) but I've found no marriage for him. The family appear together on 1881 census but the following year Ellen's mother married as a spinster.
The man she married could have been Ellen's father but 2 months before Ellen's birth he was sent to prison for 2 years! William died in March 1891 (just missing the census) in Kensington Infirmary.
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On 24 April 1903 in Kirkintilloch my GG grandfather Robert McEwan was getting married for the second time to Elizabeth Robertson (maiden name Cochrane) the daughter of Walter Cochrane and Elizabeth Douglas. He was 39 and she 40. I found out about this marriage purely from being a Rootschat member. About six months into being a part of RC and only a few months longer than I had begun to research my family I received a PM from a lady in New Zealand named Marylin. In it she said that her GG gran Elizabeth was married to my GG grandfather Robert. No, says I, he was married to my GG gran Hannah Greer. Marylin gave me the dates and I looked up the marriage and sure enough there he was on the cert registered as a widower. This led me to a fruitless search of my GG gran's death pre 1903. With the help of another good friend and RCer I found out that she was very much alive and also remarried later that same year as a spinster. Whether they actually divorced I have yet to find out and will pursue when I am next in Edinburgh. It's possible that the first marriage had been deemed to have broken down due to his absence for long periods in America. He eventually emigated for good on 1911 on the ship pictured.
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See yesterday's post about Caroline Whateley
On this day in 1842 She married William Holmes at Edgbaston
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Oh dear, I forgot yesterday. ???
On 24 April
Benjamin Collett my 2 x g.g.uncle married Bertha Philpot in Fressingfield, Suffolk in 1834
Sarah Hobson my 2 x g.g.aunt was born in Almondbury, Yorkshire in 1800. Unfortunately she died in 1801.
Dorothy Middleton (nee Chorley) was born in Muncaster, Cumberland in 1806
Robert Day my 2 x g.g.uncle was bapt 1821
Richard Spraggett my husband’s 3 x g.g.uncle was baptised in Leamington Hastings, Warwickshire in 1787
Samuel Collett my 7 x g.g.uncle was died in Westerfield, Suffolk in 1681. He was the 6th out of 11 children of my 8 x g.grandparents. My 7 x g.grandfather was no.9.
Frances Noble (nee Hanley) my 1st cousin twice removed died in Glasgow in 1952. She died of myocarditis and cardiac failure. She was 64.
Priscilla Wilmott/Wilmatt (nee Crane) my 8 x g.grandmother died in Haddenham, Cambridgeshire in 1673
And last but not least my eldest son Neil was born in 1964. Happy 49th birthday Neil – no good pretending you are only 25.
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On 25 April
James William Mumby my g.g.uncle and Agnes Benson my g.g.aunt married at Holy Trinity Church, Hull in 1877. Even if they hadn’t married, they would still have been my g.g.uncle and my g.g.aunt, as James was the brother of my g.grandmother and Agnes was the sister of my g.grandfather! Unfortunately, Agnes died in June 1881 aged 21, their baby daughter having died in March aged 3 months and then their son died in August the same year aged 4. How my young g.g.uncle coped with the death of his wife and 2 children in the space of 5 months is unthinkable. He married again 3 years later, but then died himself 2 years after that marriage still aged only 29.
Dameron Collett my 8 x g.g.aunt married Edward Mann in Westerfield, Suffolk in 1600
John Luckorish and Mary Reynolds my husband’s 5 x g.grandparents married in Leamington Hastings, Warwickshire in 1756
Mary Ann Wilkinson (nee Pemberton) my g.g.aunt was baptised at St Laurence Church, Frodsham, Cheshire in 1841
Joan (Johanna) Collett (nee Dameron) was baptised in Westerfield, Suffolk in 1557. She is the one who, following the death of her husband, an Inquest Jury of 13 men was duly summoned who said that Johanna Collett was fatua et ideota and had been from birth so that she was incapable of managing her lands and goods but never alienated any lands or dissipated any part of her goods and chattels as far as the jury knew. She still managed to produce 8 children, I am descended from the 6th one. Her husband, John Collett, my 9 x g.grandfather was persuaded to marry her, my her father and his uncle (a friend of her father) after his uncle had “stolen” the inheritance left to him by his parents, my 10 x g.grandparents who died when he was a child. His uncle was supposed to care for him with the inheritance to be left in trust for him. When he became an adult, he found out that there was no money left. Being destitute, his uncle hit upon the solution of marrying him off to his friends “fatua et ideota” daughter.
William Francke my 9 x g.g.uncle was baptised at St John the Baptist Church, Morton by Bourne, in 1587
Jon Tubbs my 2 x g.g.uncle was buried in Holbeach, Lincolnshire in 1835, he was one month old. His father was married twice (but not to my 3 x g.grandmother by whom he had an illegitimate child who became my 2 x g.grandfather) and between his 3 women, he had at least 13 children, of which 4 that I know of didn’t reach the age of 5.
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Only the one for today. On 25th April 1793 Robert Brown was born in the parish of Kilconquhar, Fife. He was a second child and as with his elder brother, my 3xG grandfather William, I only know the parish, though my Fife names, Scott, Brown, Christie, Ballingall and Wood seem to mainly inhabit a small triangle with the points being Ceres, Kennoway and Elie.
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Today 26.4.1930 my parents Joseph McKenzie and Jane Stuart Stark were married at Berwick upon Tweed
Also my father in law John Brewer Gair died on this date in 1971 one month before our youngest son was born
His last words to me was
I'm not going to see this baby and sadly he didn't
Tomorrow 27.4.1965 my eldest brother died at Mullengendra ( not sure of the spelling ) in NSW Australia .Also the birthday of my mothers cousin John Thompson Rollo born 27.4.1913 who lived in Sydney Australia
Elizabeth
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26th April - on this day some time ago my friend George was born - Happy Birthday George! :D
Wiggy
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On this day Elizbaeth Greener and John Bisley were married in Langley Marish, Bucks in 1739
The Bisleys in earlier days were mostly from Upton Cum Chalvey in Bucks, though John had been born in WInkfield Berks
There were three children - though one is only inferred from his daughter's will.
John died in winkfield in 1770, Elizabeth's death in unknown
My 5 x great granparents
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I have to drive to Cornwall today for a wedding tomorrow and won't be back till May so will post the rest of April for me.
On 29 April 1911 my great great grandfather James Welsh died in Motherwell. He was Irish and Catholic and I have a few possible births for him but there are problems which I will air on the Scottish board when I have a few things collated. He and his wife had children up and down the UK from England to Scotland but he and his Scots born wife married in Stoke, also several children were born there leading me to believe he had family there. This is the man from whom I think the family myth of a travelling family in our ancestry originates, he certainly didn't stay in one place for long.
On April 29 1871 Rachel Tweedie was born in Bathgate, the 8th child of my GG grandparents John Tweedie and Rachel Brown and younger sister of my great gran Agnes. Rachel as a name comes from my Fife line where this Rachel's mother was born and is the name of my 2x, 4x and 6xG grandmothers.
On April 29 1840 my great great grandfather Peter Wardlaw was born in Whitburn, the eldest child of my 3xG grandparents George Wardlaw and Agnes Torrance. Peter had only 3 siblings, Alexander, Thomas and Susan. His mother died young and his father din't remarry until he was 60 ruling out any additions. In my direct Wardlaw line, Peter and his siblings are the only bunch without a George or an Agnes hanging around.
Now for today,
On April 26 1790 Alexander Gibb was born in Bo'ness, the 7th child of my 5xG grandparents Walter Gibb and Margaret Sneddon and younger brother of my 4xG grandmother, Janet Sneddon Gibb.
On 26 April 1765 my 4xG grandfather Peter Wardlaw was born in Ratho, grandfather of the above Peter. He was the youngest child of my 5xG grandparents John Wardlaw and Barbara Smith. His first trade seems to have been as a shoemaker but latterly and well in to his 70's he was the village postmaster in Hermiston. He and his wife Agnes Wallace had a marriage lasting over 50 years. And yes he did have a brother George, an uncle George and also named his fourth son, my 3xG grandfather, George.
I share a birthday with both the above and thank you Wiggy for pointing this out, I presume by some time ago you meant 1.15 am, the time I was born and that I don't I actually share the year with either ;D
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On 26 April
Robert Gaunt my 1st cousin 4 times removed was baptised at St John the Baptist Church, Penistone, Yorkshire in 1793
Henry Collett my 2 x g.g.uncle was baptised in Fressingfield, Suffolk in 1795. After his marriage around 1820, in Mettingham, Suffolk he lived in Great Glemham, Near Saxmundham, but an entry in the Great Glemham Parish Records dated 16 May 1821 refers to a removal order on Henry Collett a labourer and his wife back to Mettingham. Unfortunately, the record doesn’t show why he and his wife had to be removed and it's a bit odd that they were removed back to Mettingham as he didn't come from there. His wife was born in Norfolk, but it's possible that she had lived in Mettingham..
Hannah Pemberton (nee Darlington) my 3 x g.grandmother was baptised in Davenham, Cheshire in 1789
Emily Hobson (nee Maugham) my g.g.uncle’s 2nd wife died at 304 Oxford Street, Chorlton on Medlock, Manchester in 1891. The address was were they lived, my g.g.uncle was a butcher there. The cause of her death was Delirium Tremens 7 days and cardiac failure. I guess if she was suffering from cardiac failure, there would have been a withdrawal of alcohol.
Thomas Dameron my 9 x g.g.uncle died in Westerfield, Suffolk in 1561 only 6 days after his baptism.
Sir Thomas de Felton my 16 x g.g.uncle died in 1381. He took part in the battle of Crécy in 1346 and the capture of Calais in 1347. He fought at Poitiers in 1356 and was sent to accompany Don Pedro of Castile to meet his intended ally, the Black Prince. He was taken prisoner by Henry of Trastame's forces in 1367. However, by 1372 he was joint Governor of Aquitaine and Seneschal of Bordeaux. He caused Guillaume de Pommiers and his confessor/counsellor John Coulon to be beheaded for treason at Bordeaux in 1377. (Nice man!)
Joseph Baildon and Grace Twiddall my 6 x g.grandparents married at All Hallows Church, Almondbury, Yorkshire in 1688. At the time of their marriage, Joseph was 28 but Grace was only 16. Perhaps the fact that their first child was born just 2 months after their marriage had something to do with it. Whatever, the fact is that their 2nd child was not born for another 5 years.
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On 26 April
My 3 x g.grandmother, Lydia Downham, was baptised at East Ilsley, Berkshire, in 1778.
In 1919 my 1st cousin 2 x removed, John Andrew Kelly, died at Burnham on Crouch, Essex, aged 69. He was involved with the music hall and theatre from at least 1871, when in the census he is described as an acrobat. I believe he founded a troupe of acrobats called The Leopold Brothers, and several of his family were part of this. I haven't been able to find out where the name Leopold came from, but it was used as a middle name for several of John Andrew's descendants. In fact his son, another John, became an actor and his stage name was Jack Leopold.
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A few today....
1667 - 7 x great grandfather, Arthur Dickenson was baptised in Brough-under-Stainmore, Westmorland.
1687 - 8 x great grandparents, Francis Lonsdale and Dorothy Kearton were married in Grinton, Yorkshire.
1833, 4 x great grandfather, Benjamin Howe died in Tillingham, Essex.
1861 - 1st cousin x 3, Margaret Raitt, was born in Newhills, Aberdeenshire.
1898, Dorothea Walker Raitt was born in Aberdeen - my great aunt Dora, sister of my nan.
1971 - my son-out-of-law, elder daughter's partner and father of my tiny grandson, was born in Lancaster.
1972, not a family member but my very good friend and double bass player, Suzanne, was born, somewhere in Kent.
Happy Birthday to these last two! :D
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My great-grandfather, died 1923.
"The passing of William Pay cannot be left unnoticed. With him departs a solid link with the past. He was the oldest ex-serviceman in the neighbourhood. He fought in the Royal Navy 68 years ago, and died at Chillenden on April 26th, aged 87. Always a true and loyal subject, he was a great example to the men who, through the succeeding generations in the various wars, have fought for King and Country, and for "Liberty, Fraternity, Equality". It may be also incidentally noticed that up to ten days before his death he carried on the good old custom of the daily reading with his family of a portion of Holy Scripture morning and evening."
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On this day Eliza Leah and Richard Bond Cocks married at St George's Hyde in 1874
Richard was a Clerk of Works (mostly)
They had 5 children before Eliza died in Castleton in 1895. Richard went on to marry 3 more times (no more children though).
Richard died in 1925 in Leicester.
They were my great grandparents
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No ancestor anniversaries today, but a descendent instead! On 27 April 1998 my lovely granddaughter was born. I can't believe she is 15 - where do the years go?! Happy birthday Jenna!
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On 27 April
John Chapman and Mary Pegg my 6 x g.grandparents were married at St Mary’s Church, Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire in 1722.
Thomas Pemberton my 1st cousin twice removed was born in Crowton, Cheshire in 1873
Ann Elizabeth Whittaker my husband’s g.aunt was born in Denton, Lancashire in 1886. She died aged 3.
Mary Baxter my 6 x g.g.aunt was baptised in Heckington, Lincolnshire in 1705
Elizabeth Hayes (nee Done) my 4 x g.grandmother was baptised in Weaverham, Cheshire in 1755
Charles Hardy my husband’s g.grandfather died in Audenshaw, Lancshire in 1900. The cause of death was Bronchitis.
Kenneth Lynch my 2nd cousin once removed died in Stockport, Cheshire in 2005. I probably met Kenneth when I was a child, as he was at my gran’s funeral with his father, (who was a cousin of my grandfather) but I don’t remember. I know my mum was always talking about the Lynches.
Archibald Campbell my 1st cousin 4 times removed died in Kirkstanton, Millom, Cumberland in 1874
Alice Hobson Burgess my 1st cousin once removed was buried 1906. She was newly born.
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In 1793 my 3 x great grandmother, Mary Bland, was born in Bedale, daughter of Ralph Bland and Elizabeth Thornbury. She had two children but no husband so she is one of those exasperating female ancestors who brings a full-stop to one of my branches. I don't even know if her offspring had the same father, let alone whether he was an itinerant sheep shearer or a member of the local gentry. My guess would be with the first option ( or something similar) but I shall never know. ::)
In 1907, my great-aunt Cathy ( Catherine Gwendoline Howe) was born in Aberdeen. Apparently I look quite like her but sadly I never met her and as far as I know, there are no existing photographs, in spite of the fact that she was married to a photographer. I have the vaguest memory of a large portrait at my grandparents' house in Middlesbrough but it was hidden away in an unused bedroom and I have no idea what happened to it when they moved. Cathy followed a tragic pattern in that family; her grandfather and uncle both committed suicide and she took her own life in 1963.
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Frederick Walter Holmes was born today in Birmingham in 1848, he was my great great uncle.
By age 13 he was a brush maker, and at age 16 his mother died (Caroline nee Whateley mentioned twice in recent days).
In 1868 aged 20, he emigrated aboard the James Foster Jun
The very next year he married in New York, to Elizabeth Kerr of Scottish Extraction
In this period he was living in Brooklyn.
He worked though in Manhattan for a company manufacturing gold and silver cases for pencils - not what we would now call a pencil case but the outer part of pens or pencils.
He rose to become the foreman and in about the 1890s bought out the company, which then became known and F W Holmes and sons.
He had 7 children that survived.
By 1920 he had apparently retired (though company continued under his sons)
HIs wife Elizabeth died in 1922
At some time after this he moved out to Great Neck.
Frederick died in 1935 and was buried in Green-wood Cemetery
Photo is from 1905
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1911 - My late ex-father in law, John Wilson, was born in Hartlepool. He was a clever sort of person with a Cambridge degree and a career in astrophysics. He was one of the people responsible for cosmic ray research at Leeds university in the 50s and 60s. At the point when I went into the family, he was the pro-vice chancellor of the university and it was only then that I discovered that, as chairman of the Joint Matriculation Board, his signature was on my GCE O level certificate! :o
Today is also my brother-in-law's fifty-third birthday so Happy Birthday Steve. :)
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On 28 April
John Collett my 8 x g.g.uncle was baptised at Westerfield, Suffolk in 1588
William Stanton my 1st cousin 4 times removed was baptised at St Andrew’s Church, Heckingtonn, Lincolnshire in 1839
Thomas Bayldon my 4 x g.g.uncle was baptised at All Hallows Church, Almondbury, Yorkshire in 1755
Peter Pemberton my 1st cousin twice removed (and brother of Alice Stubbs below) died in 1875 aged 11.
Alice Stubbs (nee Pemberton) my 1st cousin twice removed died in Cheshire in 1965. Unlike her brother Peter, Alice had a long life and died aged 90.
Caleb Singleton my 7 x g.grandfather was buried at St Peter’s Church, Huddersfield, Yorkshire in 1682
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On 28 April 1878 two of my second cousins once removed, William Leopold Kelly and his sister Theresa Harriett Leopold Kelly, were baptised at Clerkenwell St Peter, London.
William was born on 14 January 1872, and Theresa was born on 15 July 1873, so why their parents (another William Leopold and Lydia Mary Cully) waited so long to have them baptised is a mystery. However, I believe they may have been involved with the Leopold Brothers mentioned before, so perhaps they were touring away from London.
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On this day 29th April 2003 my dear Aunt Shelia died, aged 92.
It was she who encouraged me to try the Royal Childrens Hospital when I decided to train as a nurse
- and it was she who gave me the cup and saucer which had been given to her when she started nursing - a cup and saucer which, I suspect, had in turn been given to her mother when she started nursing. (I still have the crockery but at the moment no-one to pass it to in the nursing line. I don't think you are required to take your own crockery with you these days!! ;) ;) And you don't have to live in the Nurses Home while training! ;D)
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On this day today Jocosa Wagstaffe and Thomas Cottrell were married at Tanworth in Warwickshire (now known as Tanworth in Arden), in 1634
They were my 9 x great grandparents
They had 4 children of who 2 died young
It appears Thomas may have died in 1647
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1703 - my 7 x great grandparents, Henry Favell and Elizabeth Lonsdale married in Spennithorne, Yorkshire.
1759 - my 5 x great grandfather, George Grose was baptised in Portsea, Hampshire.
1859 - a 1st cousin x3, Jane Daniel was born in Peterhead.
And the only one which really matters to me today........On this day thirty-six years ago, I was sitting in a hospital bed in Leeds Maternity Hospital, holding my brand new baby girl. She was due on April 29th and, being a punctual sort, she gave me just over an hour's warning at about five past midnight and arrived with undue haste at 1.30am. This punctuality trait stayed with her until she was around eighteen and then completely disappeared. She wouldn't know 'on time' now if it came up and slapped her in the face! ;D
But she is as beautiful as ever and I wish her the happiest of birthdays.
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Elizabeth Middleton my 2 x g.grandmother was baptised in Millom, Cumberland in 1838. She died aged 83 and outlived 3 of her 4 children, and possibly the 4th. Her eldest died aged 46, her 2nd child died aged 1 year, her 3rd child died aged 21. I can’t find the death of her 4th child, he was on the 1911 census aged 41 with a wife and 2 children. Whether that was too old to fight and die in WW1 I don’t know. They lived in Hull and in 1930, in Hull, his wife re-married aged 53 but I can’t find any deaths of him in Hull. Once we get the 1921 census on line, I’ll be able to find out if he was still alive then or not, which will shorten the time frame of his death.
Sarah Whittaker my husband’s 2 x g.g.aunt died in Romiley, Cheshire in 1816. She was 11 years old.
Mary Ann Rodgers my 3 x g.grandmother died in Hull in 1866. She was 84 and the cause of her death was given as “Decay of Nature 6 weeks”. She had 9 children, one of whom was infamously deported to Tasmania for theft, whilst Mary Ann at the time aged 65 was sentenced to 6 months imprisonment with hard labour for receiving stolen goods. To then live to be 84 she must have been a tough cookie.
William John Brand Lynch, my 1st cousin twice removed died in Manchester in 1942. The cause of his death was Coronary Thrombosis. As I was only 1 when he died and 5 when his wife died, I don’t remember them, but I do remember my mother talking about his wife quite a lot, calling her Nellie Lynch. It took me years to work out who she was. I just knew she was some kind of relative.
Emily Hobson (nee Maugham) was buried in Phillips Park Cemetery, Manchester in 1891. She was the 2nd husband of my g.g.uncle. Despite having 3 wives, the children seemed to get on well with their stepmothers. Some are buried with my g.g.uncle, some are buried with the Emily and some are buried with his 3rd wife, not all of them with their own mother!
And last but not least my son Guy and his wife Vicky married in Guildford in 1989. 24 years married today. Only one more year to go for a party ::)
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On 29 April 1793 my 3 x Gt. Gt. uncle, Thomas Conquest, married Sarah Burr at Wilstead, Bedfordshire. After Sarah's death, which I cannot find, he married Ann Prole, another record which has proved elusive!
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On this day William Varnden my 4 x great grandfather died in Chertsey Surrey, in 1795 (as I know now aged 49 years).
He left a wife, Elizabeth, and 6 children aged between 10 and 20.
In 1791 William had been a brickmaker and farmer as Berryman and Varnden.
I know little about William but have pieced together gradually a little
In 1768 he reported Edward Hall a Victualler for assault in Chertsey
William was reported as a servant at this date
In 1771 An Southey reported that William Varnden had fathered her bastard child Ann Varnden SOuthey, also in Chertsey. He was reported as a labourer at this date.
At some point he married Elizabeth. THis cannot be found anywhere, but they start having children in Chertsey in 1775
I found a Victorian account of grave inscriptions at Chertsey
In memory of John Berryman who departed this life 17th November 1771 aged 65 years. Also Ann Berryman wife of the above died May 11th 1790 aged 76. Likewise Wm Varnden nephew of above died April 30th 1795 aged 49 years.
JOhn Berryman's will did not reveal much he left all to his wife (I found John and Ann married later in life and had no children)
Ann Berryman (nee Penycod)'s will left the farm, brick kiln etc to Elizabeth wife of her nephew William Varnden. I suspect William may have been already ill.
Despite this big clue I have not tracked down William's baptism
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In 1915, my great uncle, Benjamin Clarence Howe, married Isabella Glass in Glasgow.
Benjamin was the son of Clarence Howe and Catherine Shaw who grew up at opposite ends of the UK, with Clarence coming from Brightlingsea in Essex and Catherine from Nairn in N.E. Scotland. Clarence was a merchant sailor and Catherine's father was a sea captain. I can only assume that Clarence's sailing trips took him to Scotland where he met his future wife. They married in Caistor in Lincolnshire where, less than two months later, the aforementioned Benjamin Clarence was born. All of his siblings were born in Nairn or Aberdeen.
Benjamin and Isabella had two daughters, Margaret and Isabella. Some years ago, I contacted Margaret, who still lived in Greenock where she had grown up. She remembered my father and his family quite well but I got a telling off for the way my grandparents had lost touch with the rest of the family when they moved to England. I felt this was a little unjustified as it happened some fifteen years before I was born but hey...I wasn't going to argue with an old lady, was I? ;D ;D
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In 1789 my 3 x gt gt aunt, Mary Conquest, married James Frost at Cardington, Bedfordshire. She was the sister of Thomas Conquest mentioned yesterday. Thomas and Mary, and my 3 x gt grandfather William, were the children of William Conquest and Elizabeth Hartwell.
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On 30 April
John Baxter and Mary Ding my 7 x g.grandparents married in Sapperton, Lincolnshire in 1704.
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Alice Dawson my husband’s 2 x g.g.aunt was born in Whitefield, Prestwich, Lancashire in 1825
Jessie Jennet Howard McGrath (nee Connor), my husband’s g.g.aunt was born in Manchester in 1862. As my husband’s 2 x g.grandparents seem to have disappeared after 1851, I was interested to find out who this girl was, when I came across her on the 1881 census, living with my husband’s g.grandmother, who interestingly with her family was using the surname Howard (her mother Emma’s maiden name!). Jessie’s birth certificate states her mother Emma Connor was a widow. Whether she was, I can’t find a death in England, or whether her husband left her and went back to Ireland I doubt we’ll ever find out. Interestingly, when Jessie married, she gave her father as James Connor deceased, who was her mother’s husband (and her sister Emma’s father) although there was no name on her birth certificate.
Rebecca Collett my 5 x g.g.aunt was baptised in Eye, Suffolk in 1702
Mary Benson my 2 x g.g.aunt was baptised at St Mary’s Church, Dalton in Furness in 1816. It is possible that she is actually my 3 x g.grandmother. She died in 1837 and what I know as my 2 x g.grandfather John was born in 1834 before birth certificates were available. There is no baptism for John Benson – I’ve searched the parish records myself in Barrow in Furness, - whereas all the other children in the family were baptised. There was one more boy Joseph who was born in 1837(just before records began), but he was baptised in May 1837 a couple of months before Mary died. He was baptised as being a child of Mary’s parents, however, on the 1851 census he was living with Mary’s sister Agnes and shown as her nephew. My thinking goes that if Joseph was Agnes’ nephew, then it’s very probable that John was too although why he wasn’t baptised I don’t know. I guess that he and his mother lived elsewhere and she didn’t have him baptised, whereas when she was expecting Joseph and became ill, with consumption, she went back home to have the baby which was baptised as her parents..
Thomas Benson my 4 x g.g.uncle was baptised in Bromfield, Wigton, Cumberland in 1772. Whether there is any connection, other than marriage to the Benson family above I don’t know. Thomas was the sister of my 4 x g.grandmother, who married a Robert Middleton. Their eldest son Jonathan had a daughter Elizabeth who married a John Benson, who might or might not be the son of Mary above. Confused, so am I.
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On 30 April 1833 my g grandfather, John L. Logan, was born in Portyerrock, Wigtownshire. His family left for the United States about a year later and they settled in Medina County, Ohio. In about 1853, g grandpa moved on to Outagamie County, Wisconsin, a frontier area recently opened up for settlement. Here he is in Hortonville, Wisconsin [about 1870?] with g grandma, Mary M. Ware and their farmhouse in Hortonville, originally built in about 1858. The house is still there but barns are gone.
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On this day Richard Whateley was buried at St Martin's Birmingham aged only 38
(Burial register show Richard Wheatley but the address is correct)
I currently have 9 children showing - but I need to investigate further
Richard was my 3 greats grandfather
He was a bit of a mystery
A previous theory that he was from Wednesbury seems unlikely now
Either way he married Elizabeth Woodwards at Aston juxta Birmingham in 1819.
She was from a small parish and peculiar of Packwood Warwicks but not found him anywhere near
They lived in Bull Street and then Moor Street in Birmingham
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It's May Day...
Please go to the new thread to carry on with your anniversaries...
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,645510.new.html#new
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On 8 April 1931 my maternal grandfather, Samuel Robert Marshall died in Leytonstone, aged 62. He was a printer in the newspaper industry and was a Mason. I never knew him, and the photos I have of him were all taken at Masonic functions.
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Hi George ...aka Seoras...Elizabeth was the daughter of John Cochrane and Helen McBride Douglas, but it is great to see you recognising Robert and Elizabeths marriage anniversary !
Hope alls well with you and you've been havingluck withyour research
regards Marilyn
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Hi Marilyn, long time no hear. Thank you for that info. I hope you and yours are well on the other side of the planet.
George.
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Hi George
Yes thank you, all is well with us here...hope you still have my email if you need to ask about anything .Sadly I read on the Net that Bob in Bicknell who remembered Eliz and Robert as Granny and Pap, passed away last year. It would've been nice if his family had told me but thats the way it goes.
I love that you've got Robert on here. Did you ever find any more descendants of his through daughter Agnes and /or son John, the one who survived and did I send you that story that accompanied the drumming photo?
Marilyn
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Hi Marilyn, I haven't followed John or Agnes yet but have worked out that it is highly likely that Agnes wasn't Robert's child. On her birth certificate it merely names her mother and states married to Robert.This and Robert's absence in the USA could be where the marriage started to break down. I found out that he first went over there alone in 1894, probably to look for work and probably to see brother William who was already there in Pennsylvania. William had at least 10 children so I expect I have quite a few cousins of some sort in the USA.
Did I tell you I know where Alex and Sam are buried in France?
Sorry to hear about Bob, I sure would like to have spoken to someone who knew my GG grandfather.
PS. Just checked and yes I do still have your email address. Had to check as I have had two computer malfunctions in the past year.
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Hi George
Interesting about Agnes,have you fond her with Robert in any Census up to 1901 ? I do remeber that he came out prior and yes you wil have heaps of rellies in the US of A ! i did give youanemailof Justin Houser didn't I? He was also looking for that family as he was related to Williams wife.
Yes sad about Bob, his wife and daughter have never communicated with me or sent best wishes any time he wrote. Ah well such is life.
No you didn't mention finding where Sam and Alex are buried...love to hear.
Hope all goes well with you and if you need any info let me know...I am on Ancestry so I can look up things for you
cheers