This week in Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks prompt, the word is Tragedy. John Clements was my 2nd great grandfather, the son of Thomas Clements and Ann [maiden name unknown] from Warwickshire, England. John was born in about 1800 and was living in Victoria, Australia by 1856. Very late in life, in …
This week’s post for Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks prompt, is the number 12. I was thinking about what I could write, and came up with a lot of ideas. Someone aged 12 years. Someone who was born or died in December. Someone who had 12 kids. #12 on an Ahnentafel list. …
For Week 10 of Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, I chose to write about my grand uncle, my maternal grandfather’s brother. Hector Meredith McKenzie, or “Hec” as he was known, was born in 1907 to Robert McKenzie and Eliza Jane Clements of “Spring Valley”, Woodford, Victoria, Australia. I don’t remember much about …