January 8th

On This Day in 1909 your Great Aunt, Catherine Elizabeth Christie, was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.  She was your grandma's sister.

Auntie Cathie was the fourth child for John Christie and Betsy West, your great grandparents.  But by the time she was born the first two children, Isabella and Helen had died.

She lived with her parents above the Maltings of the Newcastle Breweries until she married in 1948 at age 39.  She died six years later.  She had no children.  (Her husband, btw, was Uncle Eric - who later went on to marry the person you know as Auntie Peggy).

Like so many of my family, I didn't know Auntie Cathie.  I was 2 when she died but I know Alison and she were very close.  This is a photo of her at my parents' wedding in 1946.