tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79379713886300824872024-03-13T20:06:42.532+00:00My Family HistoryA celebration of the people who made me, but who are no longer with us, spanning over 1000+ years.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger129125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7937971388630082487.post-3574572862391539342020-08-30T09:34:00.003+01:002020-11-02T15:09:49.690+00:00The virus that took Daniel Johnson and his wife Sarah Birch<p> Daniel Johnson was my 3x great grandfather. A domestic gardener by trade, he was born on 7 December 1817. </p><p>On 31 May 1840, he married my 3x great grandmother Sarah Birch (born 1818) at St Nicholas Church, Liverpool.</p><p>Together they had eight children, including my great great grandfather Joseph.</p><p>Tragically they both died in November 1893 within four days of each other at home at 68 Langton Road, Litherland. Both death certificates state bronchitis, but older family members always said they died in a pandemic. This is probably true, in what was at the time the fourth and final wave of Russian Flu, which swept across Europe and the UK between 1889 and 1893.</p><p>I write this in the middle of another pandemic, as we await a potential second wave. It brings it home, and acts as a warning to wear masks, wash hands and keep socially distant.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tMKWczjqiqc/X6AhCeMnSTI/AAAAAAAARcM/IV5IMT5HJ5k5TkoD9UvPCKVFoW4I0cnRACLcBGAsYHQ/s1015/C79FD941-713A-4B71-AE45-E516679439E2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="616" data-original-width="1015" height="286" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tMKWczjqiqc/X6AhCeMnSTI/AAAAAAAARcM/IV5IMT5HJ5k5TkoD9UvPCKVFoW4I0cnRACLcBGAsYHQ/w472-h286/C79FD941-713A-4B71-AE45-E516679439E2.jpeg" width="472" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NPUCzmyBkSg/X0tkf3ZS8pI/AAAAAAAARZs/SHNJzCzIyhgi6nF87g0RovyiZJgJnI1jQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/27F84E57-FF34-4C44-B240-2ADBAC793C7C.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NPUCzmyBkSg/X0tkf3ZS8pI/AAAAAAAARZs/SHNJzCzIyhgi6nF87g0RovyiZJgJnI1jQCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/27F84E57-FF34-4C44-B240-2ADBAC793C7C.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-E-SAEoN92WY/X0tkfhqPphI/AAAAAAAARZo/mEN4-E5o3p0zTmqyCYax-resIi2vh3xswCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/67C95482-5EB3-400D-90D3-9E1DDEE1FDA4.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-E-SAEoN92WY/X0tkfhqPphI/AAAAAAAARZo/mEN4-E5o3p0zTmqyCYax-resIi2vh3xswCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/67C95482-5EB3-400D-90D3-9E1DDEE1FDA4.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7937971388630082487.post-52767043130728692482020-08-22T17:22:00.002+01:002020-11-02T15:18:16.372+00:00The Meadows of Aughton<p> <span style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">John Medowe was my 12x great grandfather. He was born c.1550 in Aughton, near Ormskirk. I know very little else about him.</span></p><div data-block="true" data-editor="69qp8" data-offset-key="70dgf-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="70dgf-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="70dgf-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="69qp8" data-offset-key="qq4m-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="qq4m-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="qq4m-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">He has a son, Anthony Medowe (11x great grandfather) born c.1570 in Aughton, died 17 November 1625 in Aughton. In October 1594, again in Aughton, he married Elizabeth Adames (born c.1575 Aughton, buried 6 February 1621 Aughton).</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="69qp8" data-offset-key="1iksu-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1iksu-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="1iksu-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="69qp8" data-offset-key="fkf8t-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fkf8t-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="fkf8t-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Their son was Thomas Meadowes (10x great grandfather)(born 17 February 1604 in Aughton, buried 16 November 1659 in Bickerstaffe). On 6 February 1636 he married Margery Parker (born c.1606).</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="69qp8" data-offset-key="3ap6h-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3ap6h-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="3ap6h-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="69qp8" data-offset-key="2ge31-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2ge31-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="2ge31-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Their son, Roger Meadow (9x great grandfather)(born 1625 in Aughton, buried 10 May 1694 in Aughton) married Alice (born 1625 in Aughton, buried 17 February 1658 in Aughton) in 1643.</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="69qp8" data-offset-key="1k5js-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1k5js-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="1k5js-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="69qp8" data-offset-key="2r8gj-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2r8gj-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="2r8gj-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Their son, Thomas Meadow (8x great grandfather) (baptised 10 January 1653/4 at St Michaels Church Aughton, died July 1724 in Aughton) married either or both (to be determined) of Mary Hunt (married 25 May 1707 in either Aughton or Childwall) and Margaret Denton (born 1670 Runcorn, buried 6 April 1733 in Aughton).</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="69qp8" data-offset-key="fov1o-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fov1o-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="fov1o-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="69qp8" data-offset-key="481u5-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="481u5-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="481u5-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas’ son, Roger Meadow (7x great grandfather)( born 1695 in Bickerstaffe, died April 1736 in Aughton) married Elizabeth Warbreck (born 1693, buried in Bickerstaffe 4 May 1743, daughter of William and Elizabeth Warbrick) on 3 January 1713 in Aughton.</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="69qp8" data-offset-key="81c9i-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="81c9i-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="81c9i-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="69qp8" data-offset-key="a41ge-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a41ge-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="a41ge-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Their son, Robert Meadows (6x great grandfather)(born 1735 in Aughton, buried 27 September 1783 in St Thomas Church, MellIng-in-Halsall) married (7 February 1757 in Aughton) Margaret Webster (born 1735 Bickerstaffe to William Webster and Anne Molyneux, died 1816). During their lifetime it appears Robert, Margaret and their children were all evicted from their land in Aughton and moved to Maghull.</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="69qp8" data-offset-key="4eaer-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4eaer-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="4eaer-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="69qp8" data-offset-key="lp6l-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="lp6l-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="lp6l-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">One of those children, Sarah Meadows (5x great grandmother)(born 1762 in Aughton, died 1836 in Sefton) married James Knowles (born 8 May 1763 in Sefton, died 1819) on 7 May 1786 in Sefton.</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="69qp8" data-offset-key="8efu4-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8efu4-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="8efu4-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="69qp8" data-offset-key="12j72-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="12j72-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="12j72-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Their daughter, Anne Knowles (4x great grandmother)(baptised 13 May 1792 in Sefton Park, died 1871) married Robert Birch (born 1770 in Sefton Park, died 15 February 1866) on 1 May 1813 at St James’ church, Walton on the Hill, Liverpool.</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="69qp8" data-offset-key="bdfe-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bdfe-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="bdfe-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="69qp8" data-offset-key="aqbfi-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="aqbfi-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="aqbfi-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Their daughter (3x great grandmother)(born 2 August 1818 in Ford, Sefton, died 1893) married Daniel Johnson (born 7 December 1817 in West Derby, died 1893) on 31 May 1840 at St Nicholas Church, Liverpool.</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="69qp8" data-offset-key="d01vb-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d01vb-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="d01vb-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="69qp8" data-offset-key="bmns9-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bmns9-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="bmns9-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Their son Joseph Johnson 2x great grandfather)(born 23 November 1853 in Bootle, died 1926) married (19 July 1875 at St Nicholas Church, Liverpool) Ann Atkin (born 22 December 1855 in Wolverhampton).</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="69qp8" data-offset-key="7v67s-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7v67s-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="7v67s-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="69qp8" data-offset-key="faing-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="faing-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="faing-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">My great grandmother (“Gran”) Was their daughter Alice Johnson (born 28 January 1891 died 20 March 1979. I remember her very well in my early childhood. She married (30 October 1913 at St John and St James Church Litherland) Frederick Timmes Taylor (born 5 October 1890, died 31 October 1945).</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="69qp8" data-offset-key="429uk-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="429uk-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="429uk-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="69qp8" data-offset-key="5faq1-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5faq1-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="5faq1-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Their daughter, Edna Taylor, was my dad’s mum.</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="69qp8" data-offset-key="2jqe7-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2jqe7-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="2jqe7-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="69qp8" data-offset-key="58jjd-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="58jjd-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="58jjd-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">I found out the above back from Sarah Meadows to John Medowe today doing research. Not bad for a days work.</span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="58jjd-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="58jjd-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="58jjd-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LIUFhbrcrKY/X6Ai8TW-K2I/AAAAAAAARcY/QuEVVqxAUx4wDshXSOxwmIiP6SFpUnSdQCLcBGAsYHQ/s822/C5F96BE8-1AF6-4F57-9257-F9563575BE13.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="822" data-original-width="470" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LIUFhbrcrKY/X6Ai8TW-K2I/AAAAAAAARcY/QuEVVqxAUx4wDshXSOxwmIiP6SFpUnSdQCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/C5F96BE8-1AF6-4F57-9257-F9563575BE13.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span data-offset-key="58jjd-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7937971388630082487.post-84301325045732196572020-08-22T13:32:00.004+01:002020-11-02T15:30:45.382+00:00Margery Bannister 1816-1852<div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">
<b><span style="font-family: "book antiqua", serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 22.82666778564453px;">Margaret ‘Margery' Bannister 1816 - 1852<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Margery was born in c1815/6, probably in the Wigan area of Lancashire 1851 census says “ Wenel” (could be Orrell (Bootle or Wigan) or Vennel, an old place name near Ormskirk),</span><br>
</div><a href="http://www.myfamilyhistory.me/2019/01/margery-bannister-1816-1852.html#more"></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7937971388630082487.post-10929439756129871042019-04-27T16:00:00.001+01:002020-11-02T15:33:59.087+00:00The Heywood - Hindley - Wolstencroft - Heywood line<div data-block="true" data-editor="8fklj" data-offset-key="3hv65-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span data-offset-key="3hv65-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">I have been doing a bit of research of the Hindley side of the family. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Until now, I haven't really got beyond the early 1800s. I knew my great grandmother was Ellen Eliza Hindley (1888-1962) (my dad's dad's mum), her father was Richard Henry Hindley (1858-1941), his father was Richard Hindley (1829 - 1900). </span><span data-offset-key="4t3i0-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Richard's father, my 4x great grandfather was George Hindley, who married Mary Ann Emery in Liverpool in 1826. All I knew (or thought I knew) about George was that he was born around 1806. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Until today. </span><br>
</div></div><a href="http://www.myfamilyhistory.me/2019/04/the-heywood-hindley-wolstencroft.html#more"></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7937971388630082487.post-16927552130006281282019-02-17T13:44:00.001+00:002020-11-02T15:41:25.763+00:00Sidney Gamul - 10 children before dying aged 32 having her 11th.<div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">
<b><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 22.82666778564453px;">Sidney Gamul 1634 - 1666<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Born in Chester on 30 December 1634 to Sir Francis Gamul (1606 – 1654) and his first wife Christian Grosvenor ( - 1640), Sidney was Christened at St Mary’s on the Hill Church, Chester on 7 January 1635.</span><br>
</div><a href="http://www.myfamilyhistory.me/2019/02/sidney-gamul-10-children-before-dying.html#more"></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7937971388630082487.post-21348941892897780472019-02-10T13:41:00.001+00:002020-11-02T15:43:14.067+00:00Mary Ann Emery<style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
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<b><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 22.82666778564453px;">Mary Ann Emery 1808 - 1862<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Mary was born in 1808 to Richard Emery and his wife Jane Guy.</span><br>
</div><a href="http://www.myfamilyhistory.me/2019/02/mary-ann-emery.html#more"></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7937971388630082487.post-25662761548197999672019-02-03T13:39:00.001+00:002020-11-02T15:45:41.716+00:00John Churchill - the stepfather of my 3 x great grandmother Ann Jenvey Lockyer<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 22.82666778564453px;">John Churchill 1821 – after 1891<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Born in 1821 in Warminster, Wiltshire to John Churchill and his wife Sarah, he was Christened in Warminster on 7 January 1821. </span><br>
</div><a href="http://www.myfamilyhistory.me/2019/02/john-churchill-stepfather-of-my-3-x.html#more"></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7937971388630082487.post-61594219918031309832019-01-27T13:36:00.001+00:002020-11-02T15:50:29.863+00:00Christian Brerewood, my 8x great grandmother<div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">
<b><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 22.82666778564453px;">Christian Brerewood 1659 - 1734<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Christian Brerewood (sometimes referred to as Christiana) was born in Chester in 1659 to John Brerewood (1616 – 1700) and Sidney Gamul (1634 – 1665). She was christened at St Marys on the Hill Church (now the St Mary Centre) in the centre of Chester on 14 October 1659.</span><br>
</div><a href="http://www.myfamilyhistory.me/2019/01/christian-brerewood-my-8x-great.html#more"></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7937971388630082487.post-38287434131358429322019-01-13T13:28:00.001+00:002020-11-02T15:53:44.303+00:00Agnes de Arden, her son Alexander and grandson Eustace <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;">
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Born in Watford, Northamptonshire (near the modern day Watford Gap Services on the M1 motorway) in 1080 to unknown parentage, Agnes married Rafe de Arderne (1057 - ) of Warwickshire at Watford in 1113. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</div><a href="http://www.myfamilyhistory.me/2019/01/agnes-de-arden-her-son-alexander-and.html#more"></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7937971388630082487.post-48909626141741434322019-01-10T21:41:00.002+00:002019-01-15T14:27:45.506+00:00Death on the railroadJust nine years after the world’s first ever railway death (MP William Huskisson in 1830), one of my ancestors, Lydia Saunders was killed on the Liverpool to Manchester railroad in Whiston on Friday 12 July 1839.<br>
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This newspaper article from the Manchester Mercury of 20 July 1839 tells the story.<br>
<a href="http://www.myfamilyhistory.me/2019/01/death-on-railroad.html#more"></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7937971388630082487.post-53913597555590109852019-01-07T08:00:00.005+00:002020-11-02T16:02:02.435+00:00Hilda Heywood and the tragic death of her daughter<p>My great aunt Hilda Heywood was born in October 1909 in Bolton to Ellen Eliza Hindley and Ernest Heywood. She was their eldest child.<br />
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In April 1911, at the time of the Census, she was living with her parents in Burnley, but by the time she was five, at the birth of her brother George Ernest Heywood (my grandfather) in 1914, she was living in Liverpool.<br />
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Over the coming few years, she had three brothers, Harold, William, and Leslie, and a sister Emily, all die in their infancy. Another sister, Gladys, was born in 1924, and lived until 1997, and another brother Alfred, born in 1928, survived until 1977.<br />
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At the age of 21, in 1930, Hilda married Joseph Devine, a hotel worker. They had two children, both of whom died young, and a third child, Muriel in 1931.<br />
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In February 1938, Muriel had dressed in an old dancing dress and a paper head dress to show off as Mae West to her grandmother (probably Ellen but possibly Joseph's mother). She then sat down to write a letter to her mother. Newspaper reports from the time state that after writing "I love you" she dropped her pencil, and when she went to pick it up off the floor, her headdress caught the open fire, and soon her whole outfit was alight. Hilda wrapped her in a rug, injuring her leg. Sadly Muriel died of her injuries and shock on Saturday 19 February 1938, aged just seven years old.<br />
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Hilda divorced Joseph in October 1939.<br />
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She is pictured below with her second husband William Smith (married September 1940).<br />
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William and Hilda had two daughters, Sandra Hilda Smith (1944- ) and Linda Elizabeth Smith (1949-2009, marrying William E Jones in Sep 1971)<br />
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Both daughters emigrated to Australia, but Linda must have come back as she died in Birkenhead.<br />
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William Smith was born in Liverpool in 1910, his parents were William Barker Smith (born 31 Dec 1880) and his wife (married 5 Aug 1907 at St Mary the Virgin West Derby) Henrietta Dures (whose father was Thomas William Dures, a wood turner).<br />
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William Barker Smith was the eldest son (second child) of George Barker Smith (1846-before 1907) and Sarah Annie Smith (born 1846). His siblings were Emily E Smith (born 1879 Aintree), Thomas B Smith (born 1883 Liverpool), Valera Margaret Smith (born 1886 Walton), and Daisy G Smith (born 1889 Liverpool).<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7937971388630082487.post-39809533820208997782018-11-17T17:14:00.001+00:002019-01-15T14:29:12.161+00:00From William the Conqueror to meWilliam Duke of Normandy, Conqueror of England in 1066, and crowned at Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day 1066, is a direct ancestor by several routes.<br>
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Henry was born in September 1068 at Selby, Yorkshire, the youngest son (the only one born on English soil) of William I The Conqueror (1024 – 1087) and Matilda of Flanders (1032 – 1083).<br>
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Edgar I (Old English: Ēadgār; c. 943 – 8 July 975), known as Edgar the Peaceful or the Peaceable, was King of England from 959 to 975. He was the younger son of King Edmund I and his Queen, Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7937971388630082487.post-6194752270940238182018-02-18T08:00:00.008+00:002019-08-08T22:09:29.058+01:00Henry Glenton 1796-1857<p></p><p><br>
Baptism record for Henry Glenton, my great great great great grandfather. He was born on 15 May 1796 in Liverpool to Jonas Wilson Glenton and Betty Becca Kelsall. <br>
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Henry married Anna Maria Jeffers, daughter of a British plantation owner from Barbados, in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania USA on 15 August 1818.<br>
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They returned to Liverpool and had the following children:<br>
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Henry Wilson Glenton, born 26 April 1822<br>
Harriet Glenton born in 1828 (my great great great grandmother)<br>
Benjamin Willoughby Glenton born 1830<br>
Suzanna Glenton born 1834<br>
John Jeffers Glenton born 1835<br>
Eliza Ann Glenton born 1845<br>
<br>Henry died in 1857 aged 61 years old of "Inflammation of the Lung". <p></p><p><br></p><p>Census documents state he was a book keeper, probably in the docks.<br>
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Lineage from me: me .. dad .. George Ernest Heywood .. Ellen Eliza Hindley .. Richard Henry Hindley .. Harriet Glenton .. Henry Glenton .. Jonas Wilson Glenton</p><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7937971388630082487.post-74256058093284157602018-02-16T08:00:00.000+00:002018-02-16T08:00:17.534+00:00Alfred Heywood Alfred Heywood was the youngest son of my great grandparents Ernest And Ellen Eliza Heywood (born Hindley). He was born on 12 October 1928, and died aged 49 in Liverpool in May 1977. He married Maureen Sharp in 1952 and had one daughter also Maureen in 1953. I do not know much more about him so if anyone does please contact me.<br />
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Æthelred the Unready, or Æthelred II (Old English: Æþelræd (Old English pronunciation: [æðelræːd])), (c. 968 – 23 April 1016) was King of the English (978–1013 and 1014–1016). He was the son of King Edgar the Peaceful and Queen Ælfthryth and was between ten and thirteen years old when his half-brother Edward the Martyr was murdered on 18 March 978. Although Æthelred was not personally suspected of participation, the murder was committed at Corfe Castle by his attendants, making it more difficult for the new king to rally the nation against the military raids by Danes, especially as the legend of St Edward the Martyr grew.<br />
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From 991 onwards, Æthelred paid tribute, or Danegeld, to the Danish king. In 1002, Æthelred ordered what became known as the St. Brice's Day massacre of Danish settlers. In 1003, King Sweyn Forkbeard of Denmark invaded England, as a result of which Æthelred fled to Normandy in 1013 and was replaced by Sweyn. He would return as king, however, after Sweyn's death in 1014.<br />
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"Unready" is a mistranslation of the Old English word unræd (meaning bad-counselled, the ræd being cognate with Rat in German), a twist on his name "Æthelred", meaning noble-counseled. It should not be "unprepared", but rather "ill-advised".Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7937971388630082487.post-10741559740786912132018-02-12T08:00:00.000+00:002018-02-12T08:00:27.602+00:00Alfred the Great<img alt="" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-KAgQg1iCKkY/Wg0e9uJtpEI/AAAAAAAAQCw/OTkvHYa3g-kg4345o7lMyeImxndrQ0BLQCHMYCw/%255BUNSET%255D" /><br />
Alfred the Great (Old English: Ælfrēd, Ælfrǣd, "elf counsel" or "wise elf"; 849 – 26 October 899) was King of Wessex from 871 to 899.<br />
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Alfred successfully defended his kingdom against the Viking attempt at conquest, and by the time of his death had become the dominant ruler in England. He is one of only two English monarchs to be given the epithet "the Great", the other being the Scandinavian Cnut the Great. He was also the first King of the West Saxons to style himself "King of the Anglo-Saxons". Details of Alfred's life are described in a work by the 10th-century Welsh scholar and bishop Asser.<br />
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Alfred had a reputation as a learned and merciful man of a gracious and level-headed nature who encouraged education, proposing that primary education be taught in English, and improved his kingdom's legal system, military structure and his people's quality of life. In 2002, Alfred was ranked number 14 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7937971388630082487.post-60952792328592749022018-02-10T08:00:00.000+00:002018-02-10T08:00:15.903+00:00Edmund I the Elder<img alt="" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-AMf4MO3Jr-A/Wg0ePimS0vI/AAAAAAAAQCk/ow4ormX_xm8ie8X4i_EhEj48dNyqqyZ_ACHMYCw/%255BUNSET%255D" /><br />
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Edmund I (Old English: Ēadmund, pronunced [æːɑdmund]; 921 – 26 May 946), called the Elder, the Deed-doer, the Just, or the Magnificent, was King of the English from 939 until his death.<br />
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Egbert (771/775–839), also spelled Ecgberht, Ecgbert, or Ecgbriht, was King of Wessex from 802 until his death in 839. His father was Ealhmund of Kent. In the 780s Egbert was forced into exile by Offa of Mercia and Beorhtric of Wessex, but on Beorhtric's death in 802 Egbert returned and took the throne.<br />
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Little is known of the first 20 years of Egbert's reign, but it is thought that he was able to maintain the independence of Wessex against the kingdom of Mercia, which at that time dominated the other southern English kingdoms. In 825 Egbert defeated Beornwulf of Mercia, ended Mercia's supremacy at the Battle of Ellandun, and proceeded to take control of the Mercian dependencies in southeastern England. In 829 Egbert defeated Wiglaf of Mercia and drove him out of his kingdom, temporarily ruling Mercia directly. Later that year Egbert received the submission of the Northumbrian king at Dore. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle subsequently described Egbert as a bretwalda, or "Ruler of Britain".<br />
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Egbert was unable to maintain this dominant position, and within a year Wiglaf regained the throne of Mercia. However, Wessex did retain control of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey; these territories were given to Egbert's son Æthelwulf to rule as a subking under Egbert. When Egbert died in 839, Æthelwulf succeeded him; the southeastern kingdoms were finally absorbed into the kingdom of Wessex after Æthelwulf's death in 858.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com