March 2nd

On this day in 1824 David West was born.  He is your 4Xgreat uncle.  If the surname is WEST then it's someone of Ferryden - the east coast of Scotland fishing village.  He was the 3rd child of the nine of the fishing family of Alexander West (your 4X great grandfather) and Margaret Anderson.


March 2nd is also the day of the birth and the death of my aunt - your great aunt.  Kathleen Mary Glover was my dad's sister.  She was born on March 2nd, 1910 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.  She was the third child of William Fisken Glover and Catherine Fisken.  Even though I was only 8 when she died she looms large in my memory.  She was quite alarming.  Not a soft bone in her body although Alan, I believe, has a more affectionate memory of her.  She was the one who gave me brown knickers for my birthday (we were supposed to wear navy blue ones for school).  From an early age until her death she lived at 88 Ethel Street in Newcastle.  She never married.  She worked as a telephonist with the Royal Postal Service.  She died on her birthday, March 2nd, in 1960 at age 50.  She is buried with her parents and her aunt in Elswick Cemetery (this is the grave which I found last summer).