What is it about my Great Grandmothers?

Although John and I have successfully traced many branches of my family tree to the 1700s we are still at a loss to confirm many of the most basic details about the lives of two of my Great Grandmothers. The first is my Paternal Grandfather’s mother, one Ada Kathleen Watters. The other is my Paternal Grandmother’s mother, the elusive Daisy Douglas Crosbie Henderson.

If it weren’t for the fact that, in both cases, I have their marriage certificates to prove it, I would doubt their very existence.

Firstly, we have Ada Kathleen Watters. She was referred to as “Kathleen” by . . . → Read More: What is it about my Great Grandmothers?

Great Leaps Forwards (or is that Backwards?)

In Friday’s post we received the marriage certificate for Colin Inglis and Daisy Henderson (my father’s mother’s parents).

As we had already thought, they were married in Croydon in 1907 – but the certificate has given us confirmation of Daisy’s full name (we still can’t find her birth registry entry) and has also given us the names of both Colin and Daisy’s fathers.

Determined to find Daisy, my first task today has been to continue the search for her birth details.

The marriage certificate shows Daisy’s father’s name as John Crosbie Aitken Henderson, merchant. I therefore began . . . → Read More: Great Leaps Forwards (or is that Backwards?)