Sweet 16 continued - My husband's greats - part 2 of my children's Great-great grandparents

9. John Abraham DRAKE
born 9 Dec 1881 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England
married 25 December 1898 in Bermondsey, Surrey, England
died 1 Nov 1960 in London, Ontario, Canada
Nationality: English
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10. Annie Eliza LOCKETT ATKINSON
born 9 Jan 1882 in Bermondsey, Surrey, England
died 9 Sep 1952 in London, Ontario, Canada
Nationality: English

11. John Bert HAYCOCK
born 31 Jan 1893 in Elgin County, Ontario, Canada
married 30 Jan 1920 in London Township, Ontario, Canada
died 1969
Nationality: Canadian
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12. Ella May HISCOX
born 30 nov 1895 in Ekfrid, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada
died 1979
Nationality: Canadian

13. Michal SABOV
died 24 Aug 1912 in Iza
Nationality: Carpatho-Rusyn
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14. Anna VUCKAN
Nationality: Carpatho-Rusyn

15. Stefan SABO
Nationality: Carpatho-Rusyn
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16. Paulina MIKLUS
Nationality: Carpatho-Rusyn

Which makes my husband 50% Carpatho-Rusyn, 25% Canadian and 25% English.

And our children - from their 16 Great-Great-Grandparents

25% Carpatho-Rusyn
18.75-25% Danish
18.75% English
12.5% Canadian
12.5% Newfoundlander
6.25% Scottish
0-6.25% unknown

Sweet 16: Great-great-Grandparents of my Children (Part 1 - my greats)

1.  My paternal grandfather's father was not named on his baptismal record. I do know that his parents were unmarried, but do not know the extent of their relationship.
Nationality - unknown, probably Danish

2. Anna Marie POULSEN
Born 4 May 1881 in Aalborg, Denmark. She had at least three children as a single mother, but may not have raised them. I do not know when she died.
Nationality: Danish

3. Valdemar PEDERSEN
Born 2 Jan 1886 in Sorterup, Slagelse, Soro, Denmark
Married 29 April 1910 in Borre
Died 11 Mar 1968 in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Nationality: Danish
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4. Ella Marie HANSEN
Born 15 Aug 1890 in Magleby, Monbo, Praesto, Denmark
Died 1975 in Melfort, Saskatchewan, Canada
Nationality: Danish

5. Llewellyn ADAMS
Born 11 Jun 1881 in Bordeaux, Newfoundland
Married 23 Dec 1907 in Kelligrews, Newfoundland
Died 22 Feb 1972 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Nataionality: Newfoundlander
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6. Hannah Rose MERCER
Born 24 Apr 1879 in Kelligrews, Newfoundland
Died 6 Sep 1960 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Nationality: Newfoundlander

7. Alexander PARNELL
Born 12 July 1881 in Sinclairtown, Dysart, Fife, Scotland
Married 28 Nov 1905 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Died 2 Aug 1967 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Nationality: Scottish
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8. Harriet Maria CRESWICK
Born 16 Sep 1882 in Willaston, Crewe, Cheshire, England
Died 20 Apr 1981 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Nationality: English

Which means that each Grandparent provides 12.5% of my Nationality & 6.25% of my children's
I am 37.5% Danish, 25% Newfoundlander, 12.5% Scottish, 12.5% English, and 12.5 % unknown (but possibly a total of 50% Danish)

Happy 100th Wedding Anniversary to my Great-Grandparents

Valdemar PEDERSEN and Ella Marie HANSEN

married April 29, 1910 in Borre, Mønbo, Praesto, Denmark

This couple had an interesting life. They met at a Danish Folkskole (I still don't know exactly where). They married in Ella Marie's parish and moved to Valdemar's hometown of Sorterup. They ran the family farm -Stylesgaard. After many adventures, including breeding black horses and a barn fire, the family were forced to sell the farm. They emigrated to Saskatchewan in the 1920s. They worked as tenant farmers for a time, and the crop failed so they had to start again. Valdemar ultimately left the family and moved to British Columbia, where he remarried (?) and had another daughter. Ella Marie remarried Mr. (?) Andersen. She worked as a seamstress for many years. Valdemar died in Burnaby in 1968. Ella Marie died in 1975 and is buried in Oshawa, Ontario.

Happy Birthday Grandma

350 years ago today - baptism of Mary CLARKE Faircliff - Burwell, Cambridge

This is a new person for me - my 9th great grandmother. Research on this particular line (as with most of the Burwell residents) is courtesy Sandra Adams.

Mary CLARKE was baptized 15 April 1660, daughter of  Robert Clarke and his wife Elizabeth.
possible siblings, extracted records on IGI

 An Clarke, dau of Robbart Clarke, 6 Apr 1656
 Margaret Clarke, dau of Robert Clarke, 1 Aug 1658
 Mary Clarke, dau of Robert Clarke, 14 Apr 1660
 Margrate Clarke, dau of Robert Clarke, 6 Jan 1661
 Elezebeth Clarke, dau of Robert Clarke and Ann, 23 Jun 1667

(Her father Robert was baptized 1632, son of Robert and ? There is a Burwell marriage in 1629 between Robertus Clarke and Gracia Croplye. No way to tell if these are the correct grandparents of our Mary Clarke. 1619 saw the marriage of a Robertus Clarke to Elizabeth Towler.)

Mary wed Thomas FAIRCLIFFE 17 Jan 1684 in Burwell.
There is another marriage in Burwell Nov 1686 between a Mary CLARK and Oliver Emans.

Mary Clarke Faircliffe's daughter Mary FAIRCLIFF married William MUNNS.

250 years - baptism of Stephen ADAMS of Sturminster Newton, Dorset

Stephen ADAMS was my 4th great-grandfather. He was a Butcher in Sturminster Newton, Dorset.

250 years ago today he was baptized, the son of Thomas Adams and his wife Susanna YOUNG. Stephen was the youngest of eleven children baptized by his parents between 1736 and 1760, three of whom died as infants or young children.

Stephen married at the age of twenty-one to Betty HARVEY, on the 26th of December 1781. They, too, baptized eleven children:

1782 Ann - married Samuel Jackson 1805
1784 Susanna - married Thomas Wheeler 1808
1786 Jane
1787 John - married Maria Rose 1806
1789 Sarah - married Thomas Duffett 1811
1791 Elizabeth
1793 Thomas - our immigrant ADAMS ancestor, married Elizabeth DICKS 1839 Burin, Newfoundland
1795 Stephen - married Margaret Newman 1833
1797 Henrietta
1800 Edith
1802 James

Stephen's wife died in 1823. Stephen died at the age of 71 and was buried 12 Mar 1832 in Sturminster Newton.

many records available at Sturminster Newton OPC (online parish clerk)
Thomas Hardy lived there for two years while writing The Return of the Native. Traditionally, the economy was based on the dairy industry.Hardy called the area "The Vale of a Hundred Dairies". Stephen Adams, as a butcher, would have faired well here I imagine.  Stephen would have been in his 60s when the town widened the bridge over the historic fording point on the Stour from 12 to 18 feet in 1820.

Domesday Book entry and old maps
Photos, history, threat of transportation to those found injuring the bridge

"On Sturminster Foot-Bridge" by Thomas Hardy


Reticulations creep upon the slack stream's face
   When the wind skims irritably past,
The current clucks smartly into each hollow place
That years of flood have scrabbled in the pier's sodden base;
   The floating-lily leaves rot fast.

On a roof stand the swallows ranged in wistful waiting rows,
   Till they arrow off and drop like stones
Among the eyot-withies at whose foot the river flows;
And beneath the roof is she who in the dark world shows
   As a lattice-gleam when midnight moans.

Butchers in Sturminster Newton, 1801 - out of a population of roughly 1500

John Stafford

Thos. Ridout

Saml. Rose

John Adams

Thos. Hutchings

Thos. Duffett

Stepn. Adams (ours)

Thos. Bleathman

John Ridout

Saml. Duffett

James Rose

James Foot

Henry Rose

Josh. Rose

Thos. Sweet

Robt. Rose

Ambrose Knott

Geocaches

Church Micro 763, St. Mary's, Sturminster Newton multi (photo of the church)
Sturminster Newton Mill micro
Riverside Meadow small

Robert KINGHORN of Dunfermline, Fife, my 8th great-grandfather

Happy Birthday Robert KINGHORN, who was baptized in Dunfermline, Fife 356 years ago today on April 13, 1654.

Robert was the 5th of six children baptized by John KINGHORN and his wife Bessie TAILYEOUR (taylor?). His parents were married 10 September 1639 in Dunfermline, Fife. Siblings: George, James, Isobell, Jonet, and Agnes.

Robert married Mary/Marie CAMPBELL in Dunfermline 8 December 1676. They had at least two children: Robert, and George.

My files have only the 'bare bones' of Robert's life. A quick google found the

parish record of Robert's baptism. Surprising context, for his father on page 408.

1654 APRIL
13, Johne Kingorne and Bessie Tailyeour had Robert ; witnesses, James Legat, Johne Colyeare, James Kingorne, and Robert Mudie, presenter of the childe becaus of the parent his ignorance and scandalous life in drunknes, for the which he was publictlie declaired unworthie of the benefeets of the kirk.

Wonder if James Kingorne was Robert's grandfather or uncle. 

Checking the baptisms of Roberts siblings for similar comments:

1657 April 28, Johne Kingorne and Bessie Tailyeour had Agnes; witnesses, Robert Walwood, Johne Livingstoun, James Watsone.

(this transcription is missing the pages for 1643-early 1651 so cannot find reference to the older siblings.)

I did find an earlier record for another Tailyeour (possibly a relative of Bessie's?)

April 1640 James Tailyeour and Marion Burgane had a son ... (in fornication) ; witnesses ...

also an Alexander Tailyeour and Christian Huiesone had James

Andrew Tailyeour married Bessie Currie May 1640

1639 Feb Robert Tailyeour and Margaret Cunningham had Margaret, in August George Tailyeour and Nanse Hutone had Andrew.

...

More context. 

http://www.tulbol.demon.co.uk/dunfermline/annals11.htm

1645 - great mortality due to the plague, fascinating description of how daily life was affected by the plague