I love it that we welcome new babies and celebrate their birthdays every year all the way through adulthood. What a grand tradition. Yesterday it occurred to me that maybe we should also celebrate the moms who gave birth to the new babies. After all, they have all the work and so little glory. Maybe--maybe--next month I'll include the parents' names, too.
In a way, April is the most unusual month of the year. Three people share three different dates, the 8th, the 9th, and the 27th. And two people share four other dates, the 3rd, the 4th, the 15th, and the 24th. I'm not sure why but I just think that's unusual, especially because I've only included 29 people in this list.
I've noticed that the further back in time I go, the fewer exact birth dates I find. It's almost easier to find marriage dates than birth days in the early 1800s.
To all my relatives and ancestors who celebrate this month, Happy Birthday! And Happy Anniversary!
Living Relatives
3 April Bill S.
4 April David P.
8 April Noah Q.
10 April Marsha and Chuck P.
22 April Holly and Bill S.
Great-Grandparents
11 April 1840 Ellis H. Bickerstaff
13 April 1836 Andrew Doyle
24 April 1870 Henry Carl Meinzen and Elizabeth Armitage
27 April 1871 Edward Jesse Bickerstaff
Other Relatives and In-laws
1 April 1920 William Dray
3 April 1919 Bertha Harris
4 April 1861 William Henry Thompson
8 April 1875 Mary Ann Doyle
8 April 1931 James Eugene (Jim, Jimmy) Bickerstaff
9 April 1877 George Doyle
9 April 1897 Daniel Francis Bickerstaff
9 April 1949 Belinda Dray
14 April 1898 Jacob Froman and Maria Watts
15 April 1880 Ellis H. Bickerstaff and Sarah J. McCune
15 April 1910 Emma E. Bickerstaff
18 April 1887 George K. Harris
19 April 1875 Mary Ann Smith
23 April 1853 Lewis B. Bickerstaff
24 April 1840 Margaret Laws
25 April 1884 John Harrison Hendricks
26 April 1868 Martha Doyle
27 April 1871 Alice Bickerstaff
27 April 1895 John Ellis Bickerstaff
30 April 1898 Paul Victor Gerner
-–Nancy.
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I've never understood why people "way back when" didn't know their birthdays. Maybe birthdays weren't important? No Pin the Tail on the Donkey game? No bounce-houses?
ReplyDeleteI've wondered about that, too, Wendy, and assumed that it might have something to do with illiteracy. Or perhaps a year was good enough, especially without the government records that we have today.
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