While compiling this list I've been thinking of how few individuals on it I know personally. Those I don't died before I was born. I wonder what they would think to see their names published for all to see on the internet (which to them would, no doubt, be the strangest medium in the world).
Living Relatives
April 3, 1960 Bill S.
April 4, 1969 David P.
April 8, 2010 Noah Q.
April 10, 1965 Chuck and Marsha P.
April 22, 1995 Holly and Bill S.
Foremothers and Forefathers
April 11, 1840 Ellis H. Bickerstaff, my mother's maternal great-grandfather
April 13, 1836 Andrew Doyle, my father's paternal great-grandfather
April 15, 1880 Ellis H. Bickerstaff and Sarah J. McCune; Ellis is my great-great-grandfather
April 24, 1870 Henry C. Meinzen and Elizabeth Armitage, my mother's paternal grandparents
April 27, 1871 Edward Jesse Bickerstaff, my mother's maternal grandfather
Among My Collateral Lines
April 1, 1920 William Dray
April 3, 1919 Bertha Harris
April 4, 1861 William Henry Thompson
April 8, 1875 Mary Ann Doyle
April 8, 1931 James Eugene Bickerstaff
April 9, 1877 George Doyle
April 9, 1897 Daniel Francis Bickerstaff
April 9, 1949 Belinda Dray
April 14, 1898 Jacob Froman and Maria Watts
April 15, 1910 Emma E. Bickerstaff
April 18, 1887 George K. Harris
April 19, 1875 Mary Ann Smith
April 23, 1853 Lewis B. Bickerstaff
April 24, 1840 Margaret Laws
April 25, 1884 John Harrison Hendricks
April 26, 1868 Martha Doyle
April 27, 1871 Alice Bickerstaff
April 27, 1895 John Ellis Bickerstaff
April 30, 1898 Paul Victor Gerner
Happy Celebrations to you, dear ancestors.
--Nancy.
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So many of my ancestors seemed unsure of their birthdays. That makes me wonder if they ever actually celebrated a birthday.
ReplyDeleteI think the further back we go the less accurate we can be about birthdays, Wendy. (You can see that my list goes to only about the mid-1800s.) I suppose our ancestors didn't celebrate birthdays in as big a way as we celebrate today or maybe, as you suggest, they didn't celebrate at all. When so many people weren't literate generations ago it seems less likely that they would have been able to specifically identify their dates of birth. I should do some research about birthday celebrations in times past.... Thanks for visiting and leaving a comment.
DeleteLove that Bluebird Postcard I saw it in an antique shop yesterday $4.50, I left it there!
ReplyDeleteNow that is a list, and a great idea to keep track of everyones birthday!
I went through your names...you never know:)