January 7th is a date I always remember as it was, in 1968, the day my dad died. And it was also the date, five years earlier, when my Uncle Jack died. But more of these two people who I actually knew after covering two other earlier deaths on the same date.
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Ann Matthew is your 3X great grandmother. This is on grandma's side of the family. Ann was born, lived a farming life and died in the Monquhitter parish of Aberdeenshire, Scotland and is buried in the Monquhitter Kirkyard in Cuminestown. She was married to George Donald and they had a bunch of children - 11 I've accounted for so far. One of whom was Isabella who became your 2X great grandmother.
Ann died at the farm in Lambtech at age 76. Cause of death was determined as being "softening of brain" I'd always imagined that this was a term for dementia but in reading a little further I think it may be encephalitis (inflammation of the brain).
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For the next January 7th death we are in Canada. Joseph Ironside died on January 7th 1936 in Wentworth, Ontario. He is a 1st cousin 3X removed. You share ancestry with Ann Matthew and George Donald of above. They are your 3X great grandparents; they are his grandparents.
Joseph travelled to Canada with his family in 1880 when he was 16 years old. He became an engineer and was employed and lived in what was originally called the Hamilton Asylum. He married a woman who had also emigrated from Scotland and they had three children. Joseph died on this day in 1936 at age 71 of heart disease.
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And now to Uncle Jack. This is my Uncle Jack. My mother's oldest brother. John Christie is your great uncle and he died on this day in 1963 in Saltburn in Yorkshire, England. I was 11 when he died and I have some memories of him. For the last few years of his life he lived with his family in Saltburn on the Yorkshire coast. They moved there from Newcastle after the doctor suggested it for the benefit of his health.
Uncle Jack had a bit of a hazy history - he seems to have had some connection with the brown shirts during the war. He was a bus driver and married and had three daughters one of whom was your "Auntie" Cathie. He was 57 years old when he died.
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And then five years later on the same day, my dad died. Alan Fisken Glover. I was sixteen. It was a Sunday morning. I was awoken by my mum or Alison, don't remember who, to run down the street and telephone the doctor. I remember one of my legs was asleep and I had a hard time getting down the stairs. But I made it and got to a phone box and telephoned the doctor. When I got to back to the house, Alison was at the side door to tell me that dad had died.
Dad, your grandda, was 48. He died at 71 Bolam Avenue in Blyth. We'd moved there from Whitley Bay just a few months before. He died of coronary thrombosis.
Ann Matthew is your 3X great grandmother. This is on grandma's side of the family. Ann was born, lived a farming life and died in the Monquhitter parish of Aberdeenshire, Scotland and is buried in the Monquhitter Kirkyard in Cuminestown. She was married to George Donald and they had a bunch of children - 11 I've accounted for so far. One of whom was Isabella who became your 2X great grandmother.
Ann died at the farm in Lambtech at age 76. Cause of death was determined as being "softening of brain" I'd always imagined that this was a term for dementia but in reading a little further I think it may be encephalitis (inflammation of the brain).
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For the next January 7th death we are in Canada. Joseph Ironside died on January 7th 1936 in Wentworth, Ontario. He is a 1st cousin 3X removed. You share ancestry with Ann Matthew and George Donald of above. They are your 3X great grandparents; they are his grandparents.
Joseph travelled to Canada with his family in 1880 when he was 16 years old. He became an engineer and was employed and lived in what was originally called the Hamilton Asylum. He married a woman who had also emigrated from Scotland and they had three children. Joseph died on this day in 1936 at age 71 of heart disease.
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Uncle Jack had a bit of a hazy history - he seems to have had some connection with the brown shirts during the war. He was a bus driver and married and had three daughters one of whom was your "Auntie" Cathie. He was 57 years old when he died.
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Dad, your grandda, was 48. He died at 71 Bolam Avenue in Blyth. We'd moved there from Whitley Bay just a few months before. He died of coronary thrombosis.
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