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GF Admin 10-06-20 16:37

Anniversaries
 
This thread is to post on the anniversaries of important events associated with people in your family tree. Could be births, deaths, or marriages, but also could be emigrations, apprenticeships, imprisonment etc.

(But please, as ever, don't post details of living people without their permission.)

Phoenix 10-06-20 17:32

10 June 1966. Death of Mabel, my grandmother, in Portsmouth. There was a terrific thunderstorm that night, which sib, Mum and I enjoyed. I remember the ignoble wish that her death would not ruin my forthcoming birthday :o It didn't :)

Sue from Southend 10-06-20 19:41

10 June 1920 - Birth of my mother, Hannah Matilda Wheeler in Bethnal Green, London.

Merry 12-06-20 11:37

I missed yesterday!

11 Jun 1772, the marriage of my 4xg-grandparents, George Cox and Dorothy Crane at Child Okeford, Dorset.

About 35 years ago a cousin of mine died and left me a personal possession to be chosen from a list. I chose a mourning ring, in part because I'd never seen one before and also because I guessed it wouldn't have been his, but perhaps belonged to his mother. It turned out to date from the 1790s and belonged to Dorothy Crane, commemorating the deaths of two of her sons, includng her first-born who had died in South Africa aged 23.

So, that was a surprise, though at the time I didn't know who Dorothy was. About ten years later my home was burgled and amongst other things my jewellery was stolen, but this ring wasn't in the jewellery box, so I still have it.

vita 12-06-20 16:19

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Originally Posted by Merry (Post 374980)
I missed yesterday!

11 Jun 1772, the marriage of my 4xg-grandparents, George Cox and Dorothy Crane at Child Okeford, Dorset.

About 35 years ago a cousin of mine died and left me a personal possession to be chosen from a list. I chose a mourning ring, in part because I'd never seen one before and also because I guessed it wouldn't have been his, but perhaps belonged to his mother. It turned out to date from the 1790s and belonged to Dorothy Crane, commemorating the deaths of two of her sons, includng her first-born who had died in South Africa aged 23.

So, that was a surprise, though at the time I didn't know who Dorothy was. About ten years later my home was burgled and amongst other things my jewellery was stolen, but this ring wasn't in the jewellery box, so I still have it.

Thats lucky, Merry. Obviously meant to be.

Phoenix 13-06-20 09:57

Fond memories of Margaret Elizabeth Lindsell, nee Burton, daughter of Francis Goodwill Burton and Margaret Elizabeth Camsey. Born 13 June 1893 in Hartlepool. Married Stanley Edward Lindsell at Mint Street Baptist Church Lincoln and lived many years in Crayford Road, Crayford.

A family friend, rather than a relation, who I always enjoyed visiting.

Merry 18-06-20 09:08

I keep forgetting this thread!

Yesterday, 17 June, was the anniversary of the death of my 2xg-grandmother Mary Buck, nee Smith. She was a big influence over her grandson (my grandfather). Had she not been, his life would have probably taken a different course and I wouldn't be here now.

Mary was a strict Quaker and was very well known in the village where she lived in Oxfordshire, in part because she always wore Victorian styled black dresses and a black silk poke bonnet right through to her death in 1914 at the age of 87.

Having strict religious views didn't stop her being a bit of a feminist though! She was all for women having as much right to do anything as a man, encouraging her daughters to use the good education they received to become teachers at least until they married. Also, when Mary bought a property in her home village to rent out she thought nothing of fully inspecting all the work done on it by climbing the workmen's ladders and walkign around the scaffolding - I should think this was no mean feet given her clothing and the fact that she was at least in her 70s at the time. Of course her neighbours thought of her as eccentric, but her fame lasted long enough that when I first visited the village on a FH jaunt about 20 years ago two random people I spoke to in the village knew who she was even 80 years after her death!

Here she is in about 1855:

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and here is one of her later bonnets which I still have:

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Janet 19-06-20 05:40

Nice photo, and a nice remembrance of her, Merry. You've kept that bonnet quite pristine!

Merry 19-06-20 08:39

I'm afraid it looks better in the photo than in real life! It is stored in it's own wicker basket, which was still perfect when I was a child, but the fastening is a bit broken now.

There used to be a fine lawn cap to wear over the hair but that has almost disintigrated now. Also two pairs of black slip on indoor shoes, one pair in leather and the other with a silk fabric finish. As a child they reminded me of the last sighting of the Wicked Witch of the East when her toes curl up in the film after she has been killed by Dorothy's house, as the shoes have been stored in the wicker basket inside the hat for decades and they now won't uncurl!

ElizabethHerts 27-06-20 09:37

My darling mother was born 101 years ago today. Words are inadequate to say how much she gave us all.

Phoenix 28-06-20 09:32

28 June 1838 saw the coronation of Queen Victoria.

The little church of Hamworthy in Dorset saw a different ceremony: the marriage of George Hawkins to Susanna Moore (variously spelt!). Susanna's family was probably relieved as their first child was born in the September quarter and the dresses of the day can hardly have concealed the fact.

Hamworthy church was destroyed during the Civil War. This replacement was built by the parishioners. Susanna's mother, Sarah contributed labour towards its construction. Sadly, they used the wrong materials. It had to be replaced withi a few decades.

vita 15-07-20 15:44

I keep forgetting this thread, too!

On July 14th 1800 4xgreat grandmother Sarah Headland, nee Trenley, appeared before

the Pauper Settlement Board of St.Clement Danes on behalf of husband Isaac & sons

Thomas (my 3xgreat grandfather) & Robert. There is no trace of either Sarah or Isaac

after this date.

kiterunner 29-07-20 10:15

My grandmother Janet Mary Vowles (married name Bristow) was born on 29th Jul 1910 at Oswestry.

Phoenix 12-08-20 13:25

Happy Birthday, Audrey, on what would have been your 90th birthday today, the glorious 12th.

kiterunner 30-09-20 11:13

I will just copy this from my thread on the Great War board:

Robert Salter Bristow - My great-grandfather.

Born 8 Oct 1862 at Elmers End, Beckenham, Kent, the son of John Bristow and Elizabeth Mary nee Ferrier. Married Alice Queenie Brown 3 Oct 1899 at Hampstead Register Office. Worked his way up from mariner to Master Mariner in the merchant navy. During WW1 he was the captain of a ship called the Heron. He died on the 30th Sep 1917 when the Heron was torpedoed by the German submarine U 90 in the Bay of Biscay while on a voyage from Tyne to Oporto with a cargo of coal, and he is commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial at Trinity Square, London along with the other 21 members of the crew who died.

The sinking of the Heron is mentioned in the book "A Century of Sea Trading 1824-1924 The General Steam Navigation Company" by Leslie Cope Cornford. Here is some of what it says:

On Sunday, 30th September, 1917, at midnight, the Heron and Drake were three days out from Falmouth in company with a convoy of twenty or thirty vessels,

According to the evidence of Higo, the Japanese crane-man, the Heron was struck in the engine-room by a torpedo at one o’clock am. The Japanese had just come out of his bath. He felt the ship going down under his feet, and naked as he was, he snatched a lifebelt, scrambled on deck, and dived into the sea. When he came to the surface, the ship had disappeared. The sea was smooth and the moon shining. Higo heard the cries of the crew, whom he could not see. He had been in the water some twenty minutes when the German submarine picked him up. The German gave him a shirt and trousers. They left the rest of the crew to drown.

About ten o’clock, Higo, sitting below, heard the firing of guns on board; and an hour later, Captain Carter of the Drake came below and told Higo the Drake’s crew were safe. The Drake, Captain Carter, had been shelled and sunk, Captain Carter had been ordered to come on board the submarine, and the Drake’s boats had been sent away. Twelve hours later, they were picked up by the Cronstadt, Captain Logan, who had fought the same submarine for two hours after the destruction of the Drake, and had escaped from her behind a smoke screen. Both the chief engineer of the Drake, Mr. J. Peters, and her second officer, Mr. Dax, had been torpedoed before. Mr. Peters was a survivor of the Hirondelle. Higo the Japanese was kept in the submarine until Monday, when the Germans, having sunk a French sailing ship, put him with the French crew in their lifeboat, which was picked up on the following Wednesday afternoon by the British mine-sweeper Camelia.
Captain Carter was carried to Germany in the submarine.

vita 02-10-20 10:46

lMy late father was born on this day in 1907,place of birth Dale Road, Kentish Town.

He remembered sitting on his father's shoulders to watch the funeral procession of

Edward 7.

In WW2 he served in the Suffolk regiment & was evacuated from Dunkirk, serving time

as chairman of the local Dunkirk Veterans after moving to Cheshire.

A quiet man who wore his learning lightly, he sparked my interest in literature &

Shakespeare in particular, for which I'm eternally grateful.

I know he would have been thrilled by the results of my ten year quest to trace our

family history & only wish I had been able to share it with him. I am proud to be his

daughter & will continue to do all that I can to honour his memory.

vita 05-11-20 16:01

A day late with this, I'm afraid. Nov 4th 1833 saw the birth of g/grandfather Henry William
Headland Jnr. Apprenticed to his silversmith uncle he took over the family business in Great Sutton St., London, but within a couple of years had lost everything & was imprisoned for not paying his workers. His family was left with 'not five shillings worth of
furniture in house.' After serving his sentence he relocated to Hackney where he made
surgical instruments.He died in 1886 aged 52.

vita 19-01-21 12:13

On this day in 1806 my 3xg'uncle Thomas Hughes Headland,older brother of my g/g/grandfather Henry William was born. Silversmith, theatrical manager & hotel owner,
Thomas was a man of many parts, not all of them successful. After handing over the
family silversmith business to his nephew Henry William Jun (my g/grandfather)he
became secretary to composer & music educationalist John Pyke Hullah at St. Martins's Hall where Dickens gave his first public readings. When his manager died, Dickens hired
Thomas as manager for the readings tour he was about to undertake. Big mistake - Thomas was a disaster (wrong readings & dates announced; posters lost, & near riots
when audiences realised they would not be able to see their idol) forcing Dickens to
intervene personally to appeal for calm. Thomas was even given his very own Dickensian nickname - 'Blockheadland or 'Block' - & details of his misfortunes appear
frequently in the author's correspondence.He also has the dubious distinction of being
responsibe for Dickens abandoning the lucrative readings for three years, so traumatised was he by the experience.
Thomas eventually moved to Eastbourne where he ran an hotel & became a pillar of the
community who enjoyed dining out on tales of his time with Dickens, probably unaware
that he would go down in posterity as a kind of Victorian Mr. Bean.
He died in 1888 aged eighty one & is buried in Ocklynge Cemetary, Eastbourne. When
funds allow I intend to get him a headstone with a suitable inscription - perhaps
Dickens's description - 'a worthy man with a genius for mistakes.'
Happy Birthday, Thomas - at least you were never boring.

vita 10-02-21 10:43

2xg/grandfather Henry William Headland was born on Feb 10th 1808 in Uxbridge. Henry William was a dyer & scourer, first in Islington, then at various addresses round the Euston area of London.
Widowed twice, he married for the third time in 1859 & died six weeks later of erysipelas.

Phoenix 14-03-21 16:27

It's Len of the Chilterns birthday today, and my Mum's. Both born 14 March 1924. A better gardener than I'll ever be, and keenly interested in politics. She read newspapers she disagreed with, to get a wider picture. Wish I was better at listening to the arguments I don't like.

vita 24-03-21 10:43

Today in 1870 my grandmother Emma Jane Pearson was born in Dalston, East London.

She married William Hawke Headland & they settled in Holloway. Their only child, my

father, was born after almost twelve years of marriage.

I remember Emma Jane as an old lady in her Suffolk retirement cottage, enthralling me

with stories of the East End at the time of Jack the Ripper. She died in 1961 aged ninety

one.

Some years earlier she had given me a Victorian 'keeper' ring in the shape of a buckle

with a tiny diamond which I wore every day, until resting on the mantelpiece, it fell

into an open fire. I was hearbroken, as I had nothing else to remember her by.

Merry 25-03-21 09:31

But you do have her stories, vita. I hope you have written them down?!!

vita 25-03-21 14:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by Merry (Post 392750)
But you do have her stories, vita. I hope you have written them down?!!


It was more along the lines of 'Oooooh, it was awful!' (Cue Dot Cotton voice, if

you're familiar with EastEnders) except for the Ripper stories which were all

about how women were afraid to venture out. I used to encourage her to tell

me these, then be too scared to go to her outside loos at the bottom of the

garden. I did love that ring, though. Never quite forgiven my self over losing

it that way.

Phoenix 05-04-21 11:40

My grandparents married on this day in 1923. Despite the fact that both had lived in Woldingham, Surrey for over five years, both gave their addresses as their parents' - presumably so that the Hornes could advertise that their son was getting married, and my granny could marry in Letheringsett, Norfolk, in the bosom of her family.

Problems attached to marrying away from home. My grandfather was a keen (if impecunious) amateur photographer and promised to bring his camera. He forgot. I have to rely on the newspaper report to discover what the wedding was like. He did subsequently take a photo of granny in her wedding dress: golden brown with the droopy hem fashionable at the time, set against the Surrey hills, but this alas has not (to my knowledge) survived.
The vicar was similarly forgetful, and their entries are handwritten in the gro indexes.

vita 04-11-21 16:10

Great Grandfather Henry William Headland was born in Islington 1833. He took over the family silversmith business in Great Sutton St from his uncle, but within a few years had lost everything after failing to pay his apprentices for three years.
One of them gave evidence that it his master was entirely responsible for his own downfall & an officer reported that the family home contained 'scarcely five shillings worth of furniture.'As Henry William was led away to begin his sentence, he 'appeared to feel his position acutely.'
On release the family relocated to Hackney where Henry William again worked as a silversmith, making surgical instruments. He died there in 1886 aged 53.

maggie_4_7 11-11-21 11:04

My mum's oldest sister would have been 110 today she was born on 11.11.1911.

vita 19-01-22 10:17

On this day in 1806 g/g/g uncle Thomas Hughes Headland was born. Dickens's 'worthy man with a genius for mistakes,' his discovery has given me so much & when funds allow I intend to get him a headstone.

Janet 22-01-22 15:46

It's the 100th anniversary today of my father's 21st birthday. Also the 121st anniversary of the day Queen Victoria died. Still working on whether or not he came before she went, which was at 6:30 p.m. her time.

vita 10-02-22 14:00

Today in 1808 G/G/Grandfather Henry William Headland was was born. A dyer & scourer,
his first two wives died in their twenties & he died aged fifty one six weeks after marrying his third.

Phoenix 16-02-22 09:43

Today marks the death of my grandfather, four weeks before his son's wedding.


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