Frances Mezaler Mallery (c1811-1899)

Further information has recently come to light which seems to settle the spelling of Frances Mallery's middle name.

On this day ... 16th June

Baptism: 1681 Sarah Blackwen, Shearsby, Leicestershire (6x great great-aunt)
1833 Harriet Brown, Stalbridge, Dorset (2nd cousin 3x removed)

1886 Sidney Arthur Dorrington, Christ Church, East Greenwich, Kent (1st cousin 2x removed)

Marriage: 1909 Alfred James Smythe & Ethel May Meehan, Christ Church, East Greenwich, Kent (2nd cousin 3x removed)

Death: 1924 Alfred James Tuck, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (great-aunt's husband)

Hannah Harris (c1810-1849) & Jacob Silverstone (1790-1878)

My 2x great-grandmother, Hannah Harris, was born about 1810. She married Jacob Silverstone (born Warsaw, Poland in 1790), probably in London, some time before 1833 when she gave birth to the first of three girls: Frances, to be followed in 1835 (app) by Ellen and in 1837 by Rosa.

Those Places Thursday - Mulbarton, Norfolk

St Mary Magdalen, Mulbarton

Birth place of John Tillett (1834-1905). His father, Thomas Tillett (1800-1855), was a miller here in the 1830s.

Reuben Newnham (1855-1922)

Reuben Newnham (1855-1922) in 1905

There is long-standing story in the Newnham family that Reuben was either Jewish or had Jewish connections.