On the 2nd of this month I wrote about Valentine FOWLER, husband of Ida Nelly DAWES-SARONY for a while, who died on the Somme in 1917. He named his only son Valentine, and if you go to the Shared Tree, you can see an unbroken line of five more Valentines going back to the beginning of the eighteenth century. Today is the wedding anniversary of the sacrificed Valentine’s 2nd great grandparents, Valentine born around 1747, and Ann Robson CLARKE, born two or three years later. On Filey Genealogy & Connections, there is a missing generation and I have a different year for the departure and burial in Filey churchyard of Ann’s husband – 1805. The Shared Tree offers a blue hint suggesting 1829 and burial at St Mary’s in Scarborough. Alas, the East Yorkshire Family History Society hasn’t recorded any Valentine Fowlers in its book of St Mary monumental inscriptions. But this newspaper notice indicates a different Valentine Fowler is buried in Filey.
Thomas Avery SCOTTER is a nephew of Jemima (marriage anniversary 15 June). He was named after his maternal grandfather who had drowned from the yawl Trio eleven years earlier. I don’t think he had any children with Annie Elizabeth GIBBON.
There are 22 people called REEVELEY in my Filey database, plus one REEVLY, 13 REVELEYs, and one REVELAH. I expected difficulties hunting down Sarah Hannah. I found her in 1871 with her parents and two brothers, living in Staxton, where her father was a schoolmaster. Thomas and Sarah “Revelly” may have buried four children before this surviving trio, so I hope they had a future. But I am out of time to pursue them further. I am just glad Sarah Hannah made it to the age of six.
When Margaret Cammish OVERY was nine years old, the man who would become her father-in-law drowned from Unity. In his memory, her first son with John William BEAN was named George.
Bird 126 · Whitethroat
Looking at Filey REDUX 