On this day in 1879 - 140 years ago - grandad Glover was born. This is William Fisken Glover - your great grandfather. My dad's dad about whom we have recently learned that he fathered a child before he married great grandma.
Great Grandad was born in the Northumberland village of Horsley (I hope you'll see just where he was born next month!!). His father, William, was the minister of the congregational church there. His mother was Flora Fisken. He was their first child but he also had a half-sister, Gertrude, who was the child of his dad's first marriage.
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| The Manse at Horsley |
Also on this day - in 1947 - Victor McBean West married Marjorie Vera Turk. Victor is your first cousin 2x removed. He was grandma's first cousin and I remember meeting him once. He had a brief pop-in visit with us at Duchess Street. I was about 8 or 9 I think and as he was leaving he put a coin in my hand and I was gobsmacked that it was half a crown!
Victor and Marjorie were married in Isleworth Congregational Church in Middlesex. He was a 25 year old bachelor, a police constable (at the time he was a police constable in Perthshire, Scotland - he continued his career with the police down south). Marjorie was also 25 and was a widow.
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