Sunday, February 15, 2015

AMANUENSIS MONDAY - TRANSCRIBING MY GRANDMOTHER'S JOURNAL - BIRTH & DEATH DATES - NOVEMBER

 
What does Amanuensis mean anyway?
To put it simply, it means a “person employed to write what another dictates or copy what has been written by another.”

As many of you know from reading previous posts on my blog, my maternal grandmother left a spiral notebook, which I call her journal.  In it she left recipes, a list of 183 family members and their birth dates and some death dates, a list of anniversaries and other various lists or things that were important to her.  It’s a treasure that I cherish.
Today I’m going to be transcribing her list of names & dates from October
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For the previous posts transcribing January through October, please click on these links.


Here is the page from her journal.  This journal was begun when my grandmother, Florence L. Bowden, married my grandfather, Joseph A. Milne, in 1906.  She was just 18 years old at the time.  This journal is very old and falling apart.  I have digitized all the pages and have the original stored in a safe, archival box.

(CLICK ON ANY IMAGE TO ENLARGE IT)


Here is my transcription of this page, with some annotations.  I have indicated the family connection in brackets, even thought it’s not part of the document.  I thought you’d like to know who these people are to me.  And, for any cousins out there reading this, maybe you’ll find it helpful.

This month the unknown people out number the ancestors.

I’ve added whatever photos I have of the family members named in this list. (See below)

ADDITIONAL NOTE:  I REDACT THE YEAR OF BIRTH & PART OF THE NAMES OF PEOPLE WHO I’M AWARE OF, THAT ARE STILL LIVING, FOR THEIR PROTECTION.

NOVEMBER
* EDNA AUSTIN  Nov 10
Susan’s baby  CHARLES ANDREW 7”12 oz.   Nov 22 [2nd cousin once removed]
LULU E. VERNEY LINDOW   Nov 3  ‘87  Feb 11, ‘78  [1st cousin twice removed]
* HAROLD ROBINSON  Nov 3  ‘30  July ‘63 
ANDREW CHARLES  Nov 22   [I believe this is a duplicate of entry #2]
* MARGARET AUSTIN PINSON  Nov 1 
LOUISA FORSYTHE   Nov 12    Jan 22, ‘50  [Great grandaunt]
* LINDA KATHRYN ROBSON  Nov 14  ‘44 
MARY EMILY KING Nov 10  ‘21  [related to our 2nd cousin once removed via my great grandaunt, Ada Emily Hunter King?]
girl  FERRY  Nov 26  ‘46  [related to our 2nd cousin once removed who married a Ferry?]
SUSAN GILLESPIE  1841  Nov  20  died Mar 8, ‘33 [my 2nd great grandmother]
* MATIE ROBSON  Nov 24  ‘72  Feb 21, ? 
* RONALD SILER  Nov 2      ‘35
* MARY PETOSKEY  Nov 25  ‘41
* LYNN VANCE   ‘41
* TIFFIN MAY VANCE   Nov 21  ‘42
* LINDA JEAN THOMAS  D. J. Titus  Nov 5  ‘43

That’s a total of 17 names.  I am very fortunate to have this kind of list from my grandmother.

I have placed an asterisk * next to the names I have not yet connected to our family.

TEN of the names are still waiting for me to find their connections.  I have them in my Legacy database as unlinked individuals.  Were they friends of my grandmother & grandfather, neighbors, or are they all family?

In the lists from the other 11 months of the year, there are also names that aren’t yet connected.  I keep looking from time to time and link them as I identify them.
This month I have photographs of two of the people on the list.  These two ancestors are grandmother & granddaughter to one another.

My 2nd great grandmother, Susan Burgess Gillespie 20 Nov 1841, Barnstaple, Devon, England to 8 Mar 1933, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan.

My 1st cousin twice removed, Louise “Lulu E. Verney, 3 Nov 1887, Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada to 11 Feb 1974, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan.

“Lulu” is Susan Gillespie’s granddaughter via her son, James Burgess Gillespie.
Here are Lulu (on the left) and Susan on the right.  I’m not sure where or when this photo was taken. 



Below is a picture of Susan Burgess Gillespie with her husband Joseph Gillespie and their granddaughter, Irene “Peggy” Marie Milne (1893-1989).  This photo would have been around the turn of the century 1900-1903.


Happy hunting,
Michigan Girl

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