My database has two Samuel Ball, both supposedly born on 16 Mar 1647/8 in Springfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony. As they are both very distantly related to the Tiffany’s, my son-in-law’s line, I had not really payed much attention, but the “Born on this day” program alerted me to this fact. …
Jacob Edelman was born 15 Mar 1903, the eldest son of Morris Edelman and Rose Goldman. He is the granduncle of my son-in-law, half-brother of his grandfather. I have written about Rose before, her story is a sad one. When Jacob’s father died in 1912 of tuberculosis, the three eldest …
Clara Hertz was born 14 Mar 1900 in Rozanie (At the moment it is still unclear to me where this is, see here, all in Poland, and here in Western Belarus.) She is the grandmother of my son-in-law’s sister-in-law. She married Sidney Berman in 1926. In her petition for naturalization …
Benjamin Sisco was born 11 Mar 1853 in Newark, NJ. He was the son of Peter A. Sisco and his first wife Elizabeth Doremus(1) Benjamin married his cousin, Bella Jane Riker, who was the daughter of Samuel Riker and Abigail Sisco, Peter’s sister. I have written about Abigail before, she …
Rosalia Voss (dutch link) was born 10 Mar 1873 in Boslar, Kreis Julich, Germany, daughter of Joseph Voss and Bertha Lichtenstein. She is my husband’s grandmother, and seems to have been a rather remarkable woman. It is unclear how she met her husband Mar Broekman, there seems to be no …
MY family database contains 8944 people. When I started the born on this day project, I had hoped to talk about people …
Derk was born 8 Mar 1873 in Zutphen, The Netherlands, son of Albertus Meerstadt and Klasina Wunderink, and brother-in-law to my granduncle …
Aleida ten Bruggencate (dutch link) was baptized Dutch Reformed on 7 Mar 1799 in Almelo, the daughter of Jan ten Bruggencate and Anna …
Bernardus was born on 6 Mar 1850, eldest son of Bernardus Vixeboxen and Jenneke Lulof (and no, he was not named after …
Hendrik Christiaan Zeijdenzaal (or Seijdenzaal) (dutch link) was born 5 Mar 1787 in Amsterdam, and baptized 4 days later in the Lutheran Church. …
