Saint Anne's Day

Saint Anne, mother of Mary and grandmother of Jesus
patron saint of grandmothers, cabinet makers, housewives, unmarried women and women in labour

We have many ancestors named Ann or Anne or Anna in our tree.

Ane Birgitte HANSEN (1865-1918)  my 2nd gr-grandmother
Ane CHRISTENSDATTER (marr. 1781)  my 5th gr-grandmother
Ane HANSDATTER SKYTTE (1787-1857)  my 5th gr-grandmother
Ane JOCHUMSDATTER (marr. 1764) my 5th gr-grandmother
Ane PEDERSDATTER (1794-1853)  my 4th gr-grandmother
Ane Sophie CHRISTENSDATTER (1813-?)
Anna JØRGENSDATTER of Denmark, my 7th gr-grandmother
Anna Malene RASMUSDATTER (1777-1855) my 4th gr-grandmother
Anna Marie POULSEN (1881-?), my grandfather's mother
Anna RASMUSDATTER of Keldby, my 6th gr-grandmother
Anne Kirstine NIELSDATTER (1783-1853)
Anne RASMUSDATTER (marr. 1752) my 7th gr-grandmother

Ann BELL (1726-1812) of Burwell, my 6th gr-grandmother

Ann GUY (1727-1812) of Dorset, my 5th gr-grandmother

Ann LILLY (1755-1830) of Scotland, my 5th gr-grandmother

Ann MARSHALL (marr 1735) my 6th gr-grand, & mother of Ann Lilly

Ann NICHOLLS (1596-1662) of Gloucester, my 9th gr-grandmother

Ann OLEY (marr. 1686 in Barrow, Suffolk) my 8th gr-grandmother

Ann OSLAR (1819-1909) my grandmother's gr-grandmother

Ann SEYMORE (marr 1714 Portsmouth) my 7th gr-grandmother

Ann SRIGLY (marr 1674 in Burwell) my 9th gr-grandmother

Anna CLERK (marr 1737 in Wiltshire) my 6th gr-grandmother

Anne DAVIDSON (marr. 1705) my 7th gr-grandmother

Anne HOBSON (marr. 1582) my 10th gr-grandmother

Ann BROADWAY (marr. 1773), my children's 7th gr-grandmother
Ann HUTCHINSON (marr. 1780) my children's 6th gr-grandmother
Anna GREENE (marr 1572) my children's 13th gr-grandmother
Anna VUCKAN, my husband's great-grandmother
Annie Eliza LOCKETT ATKINSON (1882-1952) my husband's great-grandmother

Happy 170th Birthday - Leah DOMAN - 4th gr-gran of my children

Leah Doman was born 170 years ago on July 24, 1840. She was baptized two days later in Hill Deverill, Wiltshire. Her parents were Benjamin DOMAN and Elizabeth HAYTER.

1841 census
Leah, age 10 months, living with her father Benjamin Doman (agricultural labourer), mother Elizabeth, older siblings Thomas, Emily, and Elizabeth

1851 census
Leah, age 11, mother Elizabeth died in 1848, father Benjamin
1861 living Hill Deverill, father has recently, remarried to Hannah Brown, Leah is the only child at home, working as a Silk Winder.Old Occupations defines a silk winder's task: Wound the silk from the silkworm cocoons onto bobbins

Wormspit has photos illustrating the modern version of Silk Winding

 Leah married Job Cox April 23, 1862. They emigrated to Ontario, Canada soon afterwards. The couple fhad the following children: Frank, Lucy, George, Mary Jane, and Elizabeth, and a son William who died as an infant, at 6 days old, of "convulsions".

Leah died 23 May 1933 at the age of 92. She was living at 929 Princess Avenue in London, Ontario. She is buried in Mount Pleasant cemetery.

New information discovered today:
Leah and Job's eldest son Frank married June 18, 1889 to Alice James. His marriage certificate lists his place of birth as England. I had him born in Ontario.

July 24 - National Day of the American Cowboy

I received an email this morning about July 24th being the National Day of the American Cowboy. Unfortunately what little American ancestry we have (only one line 5 generations back, all in New York and the mid-Atlantic States), we have no American Cowboys to claim.

My grandfather Poul POULSEN, however, did spend several years in Argentina helping out on a South American farm. Although he was not exactly a gaucho, he did help out with several harvests. He did ride horses while he was there in the 1920s. Primarily he was a tutor for Danish children. I was surprised initially to learn about the substantial Danish community in Argentina. Hopefully one day I will be able to pinpoint the location of the farm. I have narrowed it down to the province of Buenos Aires.

Too bad he returned to Denmark before the creation of the tango...

William FOWLER - bap 1616 Calne, Wiltshire

William FOWLER was the 11th great-grandfather of my children. He was baptised 394 years ago this week, on the 20th of July, 1616 in Calne, Wiltshire.

History of Calne
According to Wikipedia, oxygen was discovered nearby in 1774.

William Fowler married Frances Pinken. Their daughter Frances married Walter DOLMAN in 1663.