March 4th

First off we've got a marriage on this date.  In 1852 Mary Donald, your 3X great aunt, married James Tawse in Monquhitter, Aberdeenshire.  James was a blacksmith and the couple had nine children.  

Then in 1894 Jean Alexena Ironside was born.  She is your 2nd cousin 2X removed and she was born in......Canada!!!  She was the 2nd of the three children of Joseph Ironside and Jane Craib who emigrated from Scotland (Aberdeenshire).  Jean was born in Hamilton.  One of these days I'm going to go to Hamilton - we have quite the gang out there!  

Now we have TWO birthday on the same day!    Firstly, because you knew her,  on March 4th 1907 Auntie Annie was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.  She was born Ann Dunn.  She was the only child of John Robert Curry Dunn and Catherine Brennan.  Her mother died when she was two.   Her father re-married and Auntie Annie had two half-brothers.  

 

Auntie Annie at my wedding

Still in 1907 - Herbert Ridley Glover was born.  Herbert is your 2nd cousin 2X removed.  He was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the son of Alfred Shaw Glover and Susanna Ridley.  

And finally, on this day Jane Ironside died in 1909.  Jane is your 1st cousin 3X removed.  She was born in Scotland but came to Canada when she was 21.  She lived in Toronto and married a Scotsman there and had one son.  She also died there at age 47 of pleurisy and cardiac failure.