M is for Margaretta

 

Margaretta Unwin CLARK is my 3^rd Great Aunt. 

Margaretta Call née Clark

My Gt Gt grandfather William CLARK was her older brother.  There were nine children in the family of John CLARK and Mary UNWIN. William was the firstborn, and Margaretta Unwin the seventh. She was born on 26 May 1828 in St Marys Parish, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England. Her other siblings were John (died 2yo), Ann, John (died 1yo), Eliza, James, Mary Ann, and Matilda (died 1yo). Sadly, three of her siblings died as littlies.

 

Margaretta Unwin was christened at St Mary the Virgin Church of England, on 07 Jul 1828 in Nottingham. As a little girl she would never have dreamt how her life would change and the adventures she would survive.

1st January Birthdays over the years in my Family Tree.

For fun, I thought I would check who were my related New Year babies. I used the Publish tool in Family Tree Maker to find who was in my Calendar for that date.

 

First, I found a young man, living in Australia, who is a 1^st cousin twice removed in our descending family. 

Then the excitement of finding twins born in 1899 in Scotland -- John R Dalgleish who died in 1947 and his brother Stanley Dalgleish who died 50 years later in 1977. However, they are extremely distantly linked -- being brothers-in-law to a great uncle!

 

My best ancestral link and New Year baby was Alexander Shanks born in 1820 in Lisnabrague, Co Down, Northern Ireland.