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Today, March 24 is my daughter's birthday, she is 44.

Where have those years gone?

It is also the same date that my mother died in 1961 .....

..... I had completely blanked out that date, although I well remember the month and year, didn't connect it when J was born, but then my cousin sent me a photograph of Mum and Dad's headstone about 25 years ago. I was quite dumb-struck when I noticed the date.

Happy Birthday to your daughter!! :-D :-D

It's weird how the ancestors/time/coincidences work isn't it?

I put up a thread about my daughter naming her newest (now 6 months old)
Merryn. No particular reason, just we have Cornish ancestry, it's Cornish, and it's a cheerful name.
Then, a couple of months after Merryn's birth, my nephew broke down a 'brick wall' in my family research, which led us back to the 14th century.
At that time (and for quite a while after) our Cornish ancestors were 'Lords of the Manor' - of, amongst other places, the village of Merryn!! :-S :-S

Merryn is such a lovely name!

It is indeed weird, and the weirdness continues ...............

my daughter's name comes from a minor character in a book I read some time in the early 1960s. It stuck in my memory as a lovely name.

Her second name was a name that I loved in my childhood, it can be spelled with either a K or C, I insisted as a child that it had to be C

We were determined that the child, whatever sex, would not be named after anyone in either of our families

So ......................

It turns out that her first name can be found in OH's father's family all the way back to at least the mid-1600s, every generation has at least one. OH's father knew the last one, who was born around 1860 and died in 1937 or so ..... although he always insisted we had the wrong spelling. There are at least 3 possible spellings!

Her second name,with the exact same spelling, was OH's maternal grandmother although she always used a diminutive and OH had no idea of her real name.


Later, I was told by one of my nieces that she had chosen a name beginning with J for her daughter to celebrate the memory of her grandfather / my father ............... "just as you did with ....." :-S , She had many lovely memories of Dad, and was about 11 when he died.

Daughter gave her son the name of my father / her grandfather as his second name. Dad died 4 years before she was born so she only knew him from photos and our talking about him, but she thought I would like it. That has carried that name down all the generations in his family from about 1740, that I know of!

Happy Birthday to you daughter. Xx

It is strange how a particular date in the family can keep reoccurring.

I only noticed a particular date after I started researching my family tree.

My gg grandmother died just 2 weeks after giving birth to my great grandfather.

He went on to marry my great grandmother.
She too died 10 days after giving birth to my grandfather.
It means that my great grandfather lost both his mother and his wife,on the same date 23yrs apart.

I gave birth to my second child on the 100th and 123rd anniversaries of their deaths.

Also happy birthday to your daughter from me, Sylvia :-D

I quite agree re the years, my son will be 42 in September and my daughter 38 in August

GL and Allan ........... thank you for the good wishes for J

also maggie, who I forgot to thank!



I just cannot believe that I'm old enough to a) celebrate 50 years of marriage, and b) have a 44 year old daughter!!!

We didn't have a second .............. this one was more than enough :-D

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Mine are 35 and 38 this year.
Not sure who their mother is - like you, Sylvia, I'm not old enough! ;-)

Fred had his stroke ten years and one day after my mother died, three years to the day, his brother died.

crikey, Sharron!

I can only repeat what Sylvia said :-S

<<<<<< and here is my mother. I think it dates to circa 1925,

Oh my goodness - I, too, have one of those!!

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I hope your daughter enjoyed her birthday, Sylvia.


My daughter would have been 44 this year.. I often wonder how many grandchildren I might have now. However, had my daughter lived, I probably wouldn't have gone to Malta and met my son's father and I would hate to be without my son.

I recently caught up with the daughter of my now very sick cousin from Buckingham and she is very keen to learn more about our family as my cousin didn't tell her anything (she moved to Glasgow on her marriage and seemed to have cut herself off from her relatives). I mentioned the names William and James (my great grandad and greatgreatgrandad) and it turns out she called one son William James! I now have an invite to Glasgow to give her more information.


Lizx

Liz, that's sad but very uplifting.

You must go to Glasgow - it's lovely :-D

Maggie, I have been to Glasgow twice just for a few hours each time, when I spent two separate weeks in Edinburgh. I loved both cities so would love to go again.

Lizxx