Filed in English Genealogy,Pewsey

I just got a death certificate in the mail – always a happy day for me.  My husband thinks I’m morbid, but that’s okay. 🙂

This is the first time I’ve ever ordered an English death certificate before and I was excited with what information it contained.

Thomas Pusey (Pewsey) died on 18 May 1850 in Hawkhurst, Kent, England at 81 yrs of age.  He was my husband’s 4th great-grandfather.

I had previously found him in the census in Hawkhurst, so I already knew that was where he lived.  I also knew that he was a carpenter.  His wife, Ann Pusey (Pewsey) was present at his death. I believe it says that he died of disease of the prostate glands.  Then it says gravel (I’m assuming a kidney stone).  I’m not quite sure what it is saying under that – can anyone decipher it?  Something was crossed out.

I’ve been very happy with the www.findmypast.co.uk website.  I was easily able to find this certificate in the index and then order it.  The service from the General Register Office was very quick also!!

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Filed in Bergman,Swedish GenealogyTags:

One of my pet peeves is when a death certificate has unknown written for the parents.  Really?  You really couldn’t find out who this person’s parents were??

I had really been hoping that the death certificate of my great-great grandmother, Christina (Söderlund) Bergman would list her parents’ names.  I know who her mother was, but she was born out of wedlock and her father was not listed on her birth certificate.  Her mother married Jonas Söderlund about 10 years after she was born and I’m not sure if he was her real father or not.  I was hoping that this might clear that up, but it didn’t.  Her parents are actually listed as “unobtainable” which surprises me.  She lived with her bachelor son, who is old enough to have known his grandmother (her mother).  I’m not sure why at least her name isn’t listed – especially since he was listed as the informant.

She died tragically – she was hit by a car.  Maybe the trauma of the event clouded his memory.

It looks like I’m going to have to do some serious digging in the Swedish parish records to solve the mystery of her birth father.

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Filed in Baker,Sunday's Obituary

It always pays to look for obituaries in small towns where your ancestor may have lived many years prior to their death.  Many people in town might still know them and would like to hear news of them.  That was the case with Cyrus P. Baker.  He moved away from Indiana County, PA in 1869, yet when he died in 1883 they still ran an obituary on him.  Many members of this family suffered from consumption, as it appears he also may have. How horrible to have died so far from home, apparently without any family nearby.

 From the Indiana Weekly Messenger, Indiana, PA, dated 11 April 1883.

Death of Cyrus Baker.

Mr. Cyrus P. Baker, of Lawrence, Kansas, died of consumption at Albuquerque, New Mexico on March 28th. He was a son of Mr. James Baker, formerly of Rayne Twp, this county and who moved to Tennessee in 1869 and from thence to Lawrence, Kansas, in 1876, where he still resides. The deceased, while in Kansas, suffered from lung difficulty and started west in the hopes that the trip would benefit his health. He first went to Colorado and thence to New Mexico and from there he journeyed to California. But he got no relief and started back to his home in Kansas and reached the town above mentioned where he died. Though surrounded by strangers he was kindly cared for. He leaves a wife and one child to mourn the loss of a kind husband and affectionate parent. He was a printer by trade and visited this place some two years since.

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Filed in My Memories

The Girl Scouts is celebrating 100 years!!!

I don’t know if any of my grandmothers or great-grandmothers were Girl Scouts, but I was one and three of my daughters are currently scouts too (we’re still recovering from cookie season!)

I was a Brownie and Junior Girl Scout and while I know that we went camping and did outdoorsy stuff, my most vivid memory of Girl Scouts was the fashion show we put on for our moms.  Unfortunately my mom still has the recording on a dusty VHS tape in the back of one of her closets.  It’s hilarious – and embarrassing.

Here I am as a Brownie on a trip to an amusement park….

And my mom is placing a pin on my uniform.  Just love my beanie cap.  My little brother is peeking into the camera. 🙂

Last year, we lived in Savannah, GA – where Girl Scouts began.  Here are a few pictures of some of the famous Girl Scouts sites in the area:

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Filed in Baker,Sunday's Obituary

This Sunday’s obituary is not a direct-line ancestor.  Mary Baker Marshall was  my husband’s great-great grandfather’s sister. Her obituary was in the Lawrence Daily Journal-World on 23 July 1932.

Mrs. Mary A. Marshall, 73 years of age, died last night at the home of a daughter, Mrs. William Cooper, at Sibley.

Funeral services will be held at 2 o’clock Monday afternoon from the Rumsey Funeral Home. The Rev. D. F. Foster of Baldwin will have charge of the services. Burial will be in Oak Hill cemetery.

Surviving relatives include three children, Mrs. Charles Smith, of Emmett, Idaho, and Harold Marshall and Mrs. William Cooper, both of Sibley.

 

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