[Fearless Females: Prompts for Women’s History Month, March 11th–Female ancestor who died young…this is a repeat from last year] (Reposting this one from last year. My Great Grandmother was an incredible woman!) My Great Great Grandmother was Margaret (Kelly) Jones. Margaret lived next door to a young man named, Thomas Augustine Jones. They married in…
Category: California Genealogy
Angie (Margie) Smith’s Individual Summary
Angie was my Great Aunt. She and Theodore grew up together in Oakland, CA. They were said to be madly in love. She developed toxemia of pregnancy during her first pregnancy and died at the age of 23. It is said that Theodore never fully recovered from that loss. Name: Angie MARGIE-9710 Sex: Female Father: …
Margaret (Todd) Baddeley’s Individual Summary
Margaret’s husband was an eccentric inventor who created the Baddeley Air Ship. She gave birth to at least 10 children. They named their son (the one that connects to my tree) Benjamin Franklin Baddeley, for obvious reasons, I think. Name: Margaret TODD-8666 Sex: Female Individual Facts Birth abt Jan 1847 Gippsland, Australia Residence ca 1874,…
Josephine (Jones) Pohley’s Individual Summary
My Great Aunt, Josephine (Jones) Pohley) was born in San Francisco in 1870. She was the first child of Thomas and Margaret (Kelly) Jones. She survived the 1906 Earthquake and Fire. The Pohley’s were said to be the only ones in the Jones family whose house survived. I have yet to search all the city…
SNGF: Fearless Female Prompt of the Day
Randy Seaver has asked us to take a prompt from the Fear Females list created by Lisa Alzo for Saturday Night Genealogy Fun. I’ve chosen today’s prompt which is to take a family document and write a narrative about it. My Great Aunt Margaret Jackson married Alfred Fafri sometime in the early 1940s…somewhere. No one…