[Written for Fearless Females, 1oth of March, The Role of Religion] I don’t know much about the religious background of my ancestors. My parents were both raised Roman Catholic, but were not religious. We were baptized but we never went to church or participated in church activities. My parents were firm believers that religion was…
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…
Dorothea Maria (Furtado) Pacheco’s Individual Summary
Dorothea is connected to my Pacheco de Resendes line. Her husband, Remigio Pacheco, used Pacheco as his surname, but their offspring used Remigio, Romiza, Pacheco, and Pacheco Remigio as their surname. She was Remigio’s second wife. Their descendants made their way to the East Coast. Name: Dorothea Maria FURTADO-1026 Sex: Female Father: Antonio FURTADO-1780 ( …