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

Jean WILKIE of Abdie, Fife - my 6th great-grandmother

My 6th great-grandmother Jean WILKIE was baptized April 7th, 1728 in Abdie, Fife. Her parents were James WILKIE and his wife Helen BICKERTON, who were married in her mother's parish, nearby Newburgh.
Jean had four siblings: Janet, David, Elspet and Helene.

Jean married in 1749 at the age of twenty-one to Abraham LOW. They had nine children between 1751 and 1772. The first, Helene, was baptized in Abdie, the rest in Newburgh: Abram, Elizabeth, Janet, James, David, Jean, William and Robert.

We have not yet found Jean Wilkie Low's death.

Another post related to Abdie

204th anniversary of the baptism of John LOCKETT, Manchester

John LOCKETT, 5th great-grandfather of my children, was baptized April 6, 1806 at the Manchester Cathedral in Lancashire. His parents were Edward Lockett, Hatter, and his wife Sarah.

The family had many children. They moved from Manchester to Lambeth, Surrey in 1820. John Lockett married Sarah COLLINS  14 May 1827 at St. Mary, Newington, Surrey.

Signatures on the marriage record.


St. Mary's was destroyed in WWII. It was pulled down and rebuilt many times over the years, due to defects in workmanship and decay. It seems to be part of the Catholic tradition. Not sure if it is the same churchyard, but nearby Newington Butts has recently transformed the open space of St. Mary's Churchyard into a children's playgound, complete with mounds reflecting the archery butts which gave the area its name (photos 1 2 )

The couple had at least five children:
Eliza Ann 1828
Edward John 1829 (baptized the same day as his uncle George at St. Mary's Lambeth)
Mary Ann and Sarah baptized 1832, Mary Ann died 1834
Martha 1841

Eliza Ann, Mary Ann and Sarah were all baptized at St. John the Evangelist, Lambeth. This church consecrated in 1824, was built to commemorate the Battle of Waterloo (1815). Waterloo Road itself was built in 1820, straight through a marshy area from the river. St. John the Evangelist's interior was destroyed by bombing in 1940.

 St. Mary Lambeth , now deconsecrated (demolished?) where their son Edward John (also a hatter) was baptized.

Richardr has posted a photo of the church of St. Mary-at-Lambeth, and says "Now deconsecrated, it houses the Museum of Garden History." From his post, I learned that the church contains the tomb of William Bligh, of the Bounty. Others buried there  include Elias Ashmole, founder of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, and several Archbishops of Canterbury, as well as Anne Boleyn's mother Elizabeth (nee Howard).
More information  Garden Museum wikipedia entry (see the legend of the ghost/Big Ben) aerial view   1784 engraving  architectural features


John's wife Sarah died in 1849, the same year as their 8 year old daughter Martha.

1841 Hat finisher on White House Street, Lambeth
In 1851, John and his son Edward (walking stick maker) are in St. George Southwark.
1861, John is a boarder on Mint Street.
1871 John is a resident of the Workhouse. He did at the Christchurch Workhouse Infirmary in Jan 1872 at the age of 65.

another John Lockett

Dinah / Diana WHELAN or WHEALEN of Newfoundland - a Mystery

We have hit a brick wall looking for the baptism and parents of my 3rd great- grandmother Diana.

Here is what we know of her:

From the Brigus Methodiest Marriages - Box 1
John ROSE married Diana WHEALAN Nov. 25 1834 in Brigus, Newfoundland.

I am assuming that she was from Brigus, as her husband certainly was (born Feb 1813).

They moved to Catalina, Newfoundland prior to the birth of their first of nine children.
Hannah Rose - Oct 1838, Catalina (my grandfather's grandmother) - married MERCER
Fanny Rose - Jul 1841 Catalina, married NEWELL
Susanna Rose - Feb 1844 Catalina, died Jul 1844

back in Brigus
Richard Rose - Aug 1845 Brigus, married NEWELL
Wilmot Spracklin Rose - Jun 1848 in Bull Cove
John Rose - Feb 1851 South Side, married Lavania ?
Beniah Rose - Aug 1853 Brigus, died Oct 1853
William Rose - Oct 1854 Brigus
Susanna Rose - Oct 1857 Brigus, married BARNES

I have no information about Dinah / Diana's death.

David LINDSAY, buried 3 Apr 1667 Northumberland, Virginia

David LINDSAY, my 9th great-grandfather, is one of a few ancestors that lived in Colonial America. He was born and educated in Scotland, lived for a time and married in Bristol, emigrated to Virginia, and died there in 1667. His daughter Helena / Ellen, on the other hand, never left Bristol.

David's parents were Sir Hierome / Jerome Lindsay of Dunino, Fife and his wife Margaret COLVILL of Cleish, Kinross. David was baptized in January 1603 in South Leith, Midlothian.  Officiating was his grandfather the Reverend David Lindsay (1532-1613), reformation minister at St. Mary's Church. His mother Margaret was buried later that same year, in May 1603. His father Jerome remarried before 1607 to Agnes Lindsay, and fathered seven children with her between 1607 and 1619.

David Lindsay was possibly a student at St. Salvatore College at St. Andrew's University in Scotland, graduating in 1621 at the age of nineteen.

David spent some time in Bristol. He fathered a daughter, Helena, in 1643. We have not been able to identify Helena's mother. She remained in Bristol.

David Lindsay - now the Reverend David Lindsay - emigrated to Virginia. Rev. David Lindsay married Susanna (possibly nee Opie), likely in Bristol. They had no issue. In his will, his daughter Helen Lindsay was named his sole heir. Much of the information we have on his life in Colonial America comes from "The Lindsay's of America".

From "The Lindsays of America", Margaret Isabella Lindsay stated in 1889 (see page 26) that "the Reverend David Lindsay, Episcopal clergyman of Wicomico parish, Northumberland County in Virginia .... came to the colony during the reign of Charles the First" ... between 1645 and 1655

pg 29 The church was Yeocomico or Wicomico (alternate spellings), near the Wicomico river in Northumberland county, one of the earliest churches in the Virginian colony. rebuilt wooden chapel near the site of the old Wicomico church.

Form of payment to ministers in the colony - pounds of tobacco

Pg 35, The original homestead of the Rev. David Lindsay was located on Cherry Point Neck, Yiocomico/Wicomico River, Northumberland County, Virginia.  Cherry Point, Virginia is also the site of the grave of the Rev. David Lindsay (1603-1667).  Rev. David Lindsay's grave marker displays 3 April 1667 as his date of death, one day after the date of his will.

Pg 34 tombstone inscription:

"Here lyeth interred ye body of That Holy and Reverant Devine Mr. David Lindsay, late Minister of Yeocomico, born in ye Kingdom of Scotland, ye first and lawful sonne of ye Rt Honoreable Sir Hierome Lindsay. Knt of ye Mount. Lord-Lion-King-at-Arms, who departed this life in ye 64th year of his age ye 3d Apr, anno dom 1667."


From the church website: http://wicomicoparishchurch.org/id1.html

The First Church, Wickocomicoe Parish c. 1647-1685:

 Our Colonial Foundation

Kneeler of the 1656 Church

The first Wicomico Parish Church was in reality a parish of the Church of England in Virginia as were the next two Wicomico Parish churches.

In the earliest days of the Virginia Colony, when it was organized into eight Shires, each shire was required by law to have a court and a parish church. With formation of the Counties, each county required the same, with the records to be kept and copies sent on to Jamestown. Two parishes in what became Northumberland County, Chicawane and Wiccocomoco, were created in or before 1645. [Overholt] 

.....
A combination of sources tell us that the Wicomico church building was constructed in 1647/8; the builder and exact location are uncertain. Tradition has it that this wooden building was on the site of the present church and was rendered unusable by termites.. It follows that in order to agree to have a church built, how much to spend, and where to locate would have taken a congregation two or three years. The medium of exchange being tobacco, those crops to pay for the work would have to have been raised over at least two growing seasons.

It was a well-appointed church with red silk plush hangings on pulpit and altar. Three prominent families donated the church silver, including the large silver chalice donated by the early Lees of Virginia.

Abraham NIELD - 4th great grandfather of my children

196 years ago, Abraham NIELD was baptized at St. Peter's in Leeds. His parents were John NEILD and Martha SAVAGE. The IGI has four older siblings for him:  Esther (1805), Mark (1807), James (1809) and Sarah (1811).

At the age of 21, Abraham married Rachel FARRAR on Dec 25, 1835. They had at least seven children.
John 1839
Abraham 1840
Charles 1844
Mark 1848
Joshua 1850
Martha 1851 (our ancestor)
Abraham 1853

Rachel died in 1857.

Filling in his life on ancestry.

Found the family in Leeds, 1841. The address looks like Busling Thorp.

In 1851, they are still near Buslingthorpe vale, in Spring Hill.

1861 They are mistranscribed as Alm Peal and family. Rachel has died. They are living in the Foster Buildings, Leeds.

1871 - new find, and a remarriage.

Abraham and his son Abraham, 18, are still at the Foster Buildings. He has a wife, Helen (have not found a marriage) and a lodger, Benjamin Dixon.

Abraham died abt Dec 1880, at the age of 66.

Some photos of Buslingthorpe Vale and Woodhouse Amazing detail and selection of photos in 1950, including the tannery, tavern and multiple views of houses. 

Buslingthorpe Vale

Buslingthorpe Vale  prior to slum clearance of the area

numbers 1,2,3

Numbers 12,13

Geocaches

Tiles in the woods (W Yorks) virtual

Urban View

Lorenz CARSTENS 201st anniversary of his baptism

Adding him to our Ancestry.co.uk tree.