January 6th

One hundred and sixty nine years ago today, on January 6th, your great great great grandfather, John Glover died.  He is on your direct Glover line - his son William had a son William who had my dad.

John Glover was the grocer on the family tree - he ran a grocery shop on Borough Street in Castle Donington which is a small market town in the East Midlands of England where he had lived his whole life.

He was married and had six children of whom only four lived beyond infancy.  He died young, at age 47, after two years of having tuberculosis.

I don't know what John Glover looked like but we have his handwriting!  In 1839 he signed a petition begging the powers that be that Castle Donington be allowed to keep their police constable.

The next event for January 6th is a much happier occasion - and also very recent!  1978.  John Allan Milne married Catherine Ducharme in Barre which is a city in the U.S. state of Vermont.  John is your third cousin because you share a great great grandfather in Adam Christie of Aberdeenshire, Scotland.  This is grandma's side of the family.  John's great grandparents left Scotland in 1890 and settled in the Vermont area where granite was mined.  Aberdeenshire was also an area of granite mines and a lot of Scots left home to ply their trade in the New World.


I don't have much information about this family or John in particular except that I found an obituary for his brother Jonathan by which I learned that John was, in 2015, living in Venice, Florida.  Subsequent searching brings up this record which I would suspect is our man:

John Allan Milne (age 66) is listed at 435 Pinewood Lake Dr Venice, Fl 34285 and is affiliated with the Republican Party. He is a white, non hispanic male registered to vote in Sarasota County, Florida.

And lastly, on this day in 1999 Alexander Lippe Smith died - he was grandpa to you - though he went a bit funny near the end (though I may argue he always was a bit difficult).  He died in Burnaby BC at age 83.  He was married twice and had five children.