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Michelle
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 Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 8:57 pm Post subject: John, a little story for you. |
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Last Friday, I spent the day on the net searching for some family history info. Basically I was just putting in names and googling to see if I could find anything about great- and great-great-grandparents etc.
I found someone had posted at Rootsweb in 2004 asking about any information regarding the Lewis family from around Charleville area, and they had also posted the information that they had found. My maternal grandmother, Evelyn, was a Lewis before she married and my mother was born at Charleville so I knew that it was the same family.
My grandmother's father and his wife were listed, as well as his parents and siblings but they only had the name of one of his children.
We knew that my grandmother was born in 1912 and that she was the only daughter and had five brothers. We also knew that that there was another girl who had died as a baby, but that's all we knew about her.
The people who posted at Rootsweb stated that they had found a birth certificate for a baby called who had been born to Sylvester and Catherine in 1903. That would have been the girl who had died as a baby.
The strange thing is that her name was Kathleen.
| Quote: | M Child 4: Sylvester Lewis #14979
Born: 1 Jul 1877 in Qld
Spouse: Catherine McKay #15370
Married: 14 Sep 1903 in Qld
Qld BDM Birth Reg No -000805
In the Qld BDM there is a marriage of a Sylvester Thornton Lewis to
Catherine
McKay on 15 Oct 1902, Reg No 02/0018777.
Birth Reg No 1903/001527 of Kathleen Elsie Margaret Lewis on 14 Sept 1903 to
Sylvester Lewis and Catherine McKay.
Private Sylvester Lewis, 3072, enlisted in World War 1 on 27 Dec 1916, 42nd
Battallion. He returned to Australia on 26 Sep 1917. |
When my daughter was born in 1993 I had a lot of trouble deciding what to call her. I was going to call her Catherine but it didn't feel right at all. No matter how long or hard I thought about it, there was no way that Catherine was my daughter's name. The only name that was right for her was....Kathleen. Nothing else fitted.
We only found out on Friday, that the baby girl who was born in 1903 was called Kathleen.
Maybe this explains why my daughter is so much like my grandmother in nature, and why my daughter started to whistle exactly like my grandmother. lol When we asked where she learned to whistle like that, she said the lady with white hair that came to visit her when she was asleep taught her how to whistle. My daughter was a baby when my grandmother died, and the only time they met was when we went to visit my grandmother in hospital when she was blind and had broken her hip. It was beautiful to see my grandmother holding baby Kathleen. She spent a long time just holding her and rubbing her little leg. Kathleen was totally content, and it was like they 'knew' each other already.
When Kathleen was about 3, my mother's cousin saw her and heard her whistling. lol The first thing she said was "OMG, that's Evie all over again."
I have said so many times that I feel like I'm trying to raise my grandmother. lol
There's a lot to be said for genetic traits, as well as many other things that just can't be explained. Like calling my daughter Kathleen because that was the only name that was right for her, and then finding out recently that my grandmother had a sister called Kathleen who was born in 1903 but died as a baby.
Looking at numbers here -
The first Kathleen was born in 1903, my grandmother was born in 1912. The first Kathleen would have been 9 years older than my grandmother.
My Kathleen was born in 1993, 90 years after the first one.
There's an awful lot of 9s in there.
Some things just can't be explained in a sensible logical manner.
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WOW 
I am at a loss for words (not thoughts - those are swirling a mile a minute  ).
I wonder if it's a genetic trait, could be. Maybe some would say reincarnation....it might explain how she took to your grandmother right away, they "knew" they were sisters and were finally bonding/finally meeting after all those years.
I almost wonder if she takes after your grandmother's sister - or how she would have been if she had lived.
You are right logic can't be used to explain this at all.
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