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I have 'hints' of people who seem to have definite ties to my larger spread of family but who, for one reason only, have allied us to the Kemble Siddons family, despite there being a very comprehensive and public family tree of that family.  The 'connection' doesn't even have a surname that is present anywhere in that tree and certainly neither Kemble nor Siddons (supposedly my rellie is a daughter of that union).!

I am surprised that there are second-hand copies already, it was only published in summer.  However, it's fascinating to read...very detailed, but very good at creating the pictures in your imagination.  Well worth it (I haven't finished it yet).  John is my 3XGGF.

On this Armistice weekend, and in remembrance of those members of my and my husband's families, I was going to list them...when and where they died.  So, I started a list and came up with 18 names - I am sure if I started going into branches off the main 'trunk', I would find more.  However, I would just like to list the places of death/burial/memorial if I may, please.

They lie, or are remembered on memorials, in France, Belgium, Gallipoli, the Dardanelles, Greece, and Turkey.  The earliest recorded death was 2 February, 1915 and the latest 17 October, 1918.  Only a couple were in their late 20s/30, the others being from 18 to 26 years of age.  They were in the Army and Navy.

There are two I would like to name:
John Hugh Craven, died Sunderland in September 1927 "of wounds and affected by gas"
Jessie Carruthers Walker, who died in Glasgow 4 October, 1918 of the 'Spanish Flu', leaving a baby of just a few months. Both of these were as a direct result of the Great War.

There were more family members who served, but who were lucky enough to return home, including my husband's 2 grandfathers.

"Lest We Forget"

Thank you for reading this.

Another slant on this peculiar christening record.

I read it that Joseph is probably the dead parent, and that Helen was baptised and married on the same day...19 June, 1796, this being (one would suppose) many years after her birth.  Although LDS just puts out a 'regular' baptismal record naming Helen and both parents, nothing to say that Joe is dead.

Margaret was the 2nd child of William Calder and Margaret Calder.  The family emigrated to South Africa on 3 March, 1891, sailing on "Warwick Castle" from London.  However, Margaret is missing from the passenger manifest and she would have been only 7 when they sailed.  Did this happen often? We know she was in S. Africa as she married there (they all lived in Durban) although she did appear to travel a lot with her husband, James Mitchell (noted as 'Buyer' on the marriage registration). She eventually ended up back in Scotland.  Her husband died in Johannesburg in 1938.  It just seems strange to me that all the other children (apart from William, the youngest and only son of the union, who was born 7 months after the family arrived) should be carefully registered and yet they would miss one.  Maybe the one who registered them on board was overwhelmed by the number of daughters?!!