On This Day in MARCH ... our ancestral BMDs.

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My father was born on this day, the 4th of March, 1928.

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On 9 March 1958 my husband's maternal grandmother, Lizzie Prior (nee Armstrong), died in Enfield, Middlesex, aged 79.  She looked after my husband when he was young, as his mother was widowed when he was only a year old, and she had to go to work.

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On 10 March 1850 a first cousin 3 x removed, Samuel Conquest, was born in Cardington, Bedfordshire, the youngest son of Josiah and Martha (nee Brampton).  In May 1853 the family emigrated to the USA, quite an adventure for a 3 year old!

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On 11 March 1877 Samuel Conquest, whose birth I mentioned yesterday, married his first wife, Minnie Coon, in Clio, Genesee, Michigan.  Sadly she died two years later, aged only 21.  Their daughter Minnie Marie, born 1878, was looked after by Samuel's brother and sister, Thomas and Emma.

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On 12 March 1881 my paternal grandmother, Elizabeth Ann Elliott, was born in West Ham, London, daughter of George Charles and Sophia Jane (nee Hatch). I never warmed to her - maybe I was influenced by my father, who was very critical of her, saying she was a bad manager of money and her children suffered, especially when Grandpa was away during WW1.

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On 16 March 1839 my great great aunt, Rosalie Wilson, was born in Bloomsbury, London, the daughter of Robert and Harriet (nee Sewell).  I know she never married but have been unable to find her on censuses after 1861 until 1911 when she was living with her brother, my great grandfather Frederic Sewell Wilson.  She died in 1919 aged 80.

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On 17 March 1909 my husband's mother, Grace Patricia Prior, was born in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, only daughter of Archibald John and Lizzie (nee Armstrong).  She was always called Pat in honour of her birthday on St Patrick's Day!  My husband's father died in strange circumstances when they had only been married for 18 months.  It was recorded as accidental death but may have been suicide.  She married again aged 49 and died in 2002 aged 93.  I was very fond of her and we got on well together.

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Today is my dear daughter's birthday.  I'm glad that the weather is more like the first day of Spring than it was 45 years ago, when I'm told it was snowing!

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My Mum's birthday 6th March - 95yrs old and counting.......