Showing posts with label 1853. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1853. Show all posts

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Wednesday February 13, 1974

Queen Catherine Howard beheaded, 1542. My great-grandfather, John Wilson, was born 121 years ago on this day. And, believe it or not, that is the only thing I know about him. It seems sad to think that a man of so much importance - for if it were not for him I would not now be writing this diary - is only remembered for the fact that he was delivered into this world on March 13, 1853. God Bless Him anyway.


(Er, yes. Er, so why I have written this today on FEBRUARY 13?)

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Thursday December 5, 1985

 Moorhouse Inn, Leeds LS11 5NQ A sad note in a Christmas card from Edna and Nellie this morning. Dad's cousin Vera Dean, 76, was struck ...