Souls Abroad Tonight

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There was the Celtic feast of Samhain on October 31st. Then it was superceded by the Christian celebration of  'All Saints Day' on November 1st  and 'All Souls Day' on November 2nd. Now we have the secular festivities of Halloween, taken from Ireland to the United States and now back here, again on October 31st. Each of these have been in celebration of the dead, as they have been honoured in various ways for centuries; millenia even.

I have death and burial dates for many of Georgia and Nancy's ancestors. When you have visitors round 'trick-or-treating', or even when you go out 'trick-or-treating' yourself, you may like to think of all these ancestors of theirs. They will carry their DNA as well as the DNA of all those other ancestors whose dates, and even names, we do not know.

Peter Baggs, dd Jul 1543
Richard Baggs, dd 15 Nov 1599, bd 17 Nov 1599
Richard Baggs, dd 29 Apr 1631
Margaret (--?--), dd 30 Dec 1635
John Harding, bd 16 Mar 1648
Susanna Patriche, bd 11 Mar 1658
Joice (--?--), dd 17 Jan 1675
Henry Baggs, dd 27 Apr 1689
John Harding, dd Oct 1692, bd 3 Nov 1692
Thomas Harding, bd 14 Mar 1699
Joane (--?--), dd 8 May 1724
Elizabeth (--?--), dd 7 Feb 1734
Robert Baggs, dd 1754-1775
John Harding, bd 10 Apr 1766
Henry Baggs, dd 7 Apr 1784
Sarah Challis, dd 22 Aug 1797
Henry Baggs, dd 23 Feb 1807, bd 24 Feb 1807
Susanna (--?--), bd 28 Feb 1815
William Hardingbd 11 Jun 1820
Rachel Hills, bd 12 Jul 1820
Margaret Pate, bd 29 Jan 1721
Mary Golding, bd 1 Jan 1824
Robert Mott, dd 24 Jan 1828
Ann Milnes, dd 23-24 Oct 1829, bd 25 Oct 1829
Henry Pidgeon, dd 5 Dec 1832
Ann Fallowfield, dd 16 Jun 1836
Elizabeth Wythe, dd 30 May 1837, bd 1 Jun 1837
Sarah Baggs, dd 15 Aug 1844
Francis Samuel Collingwood, dd 25 Apr 1862
Thomas Francis Collingwood, dd 14 Aug 1863
John Richardson, dd 14 Mar 1866
Mary Edwards, dd 8 Aug 1866
William Kirkpatrick, dd 11 Feb 1872
George Wortley, dd 14 Nov 1878
William Masser, dd 31 Jan 1883
John Harding, dd 3 Nov 1887, bd 7 Nov 1887
Henry Marriott Richardson, dd 27 Sep 1893
Martha Casburn, dd 8 Nov 1895
Thomas Mott, dd 19 Jul 1896
Joseph Fallowfield Masser, dd 30 Apr 1898
Harold Slingsby Duncombe Richardson, dd 24 May 1899
Mary Sanderson, dd 30 Jan 1906
Florence Margaret Kirkpatrick, dd 16 Dec 1917
Frederick Thomas Mott, dd 11 Dec 1919
Frederick Horne, bd 5 Dec 1921
Sarah Ann Heelas, dd 7 Jan 1922
Rachel Harding, dd 12 Mar 1925
Thomas Francis Collingwood, dd 29 Mar 1929
Thomas Henry Dormer, dd 30 Jul 1932
Henry Marriott Richardson, dd 23 Dec 1936
Emma Elizabeth Gross, dd 9 Sep 1948
Ann Sara Eliza Tipping, dd 17 Feb 1952
Alice Maud Masser, dd 5 Mar 1953
Bertrand George Masser, dd 20 Apr 1953
Blanche Louisa Horne, dd 8 Nov 1966, bd 15 Nov 1966
Blanche Annie Collingwood, dd 9 Mar 1967
Henry Charles Goddard, dd 11 Jan 1974
Walter Ewart Masser FRCO, dd 23 Sep 1974, bd 27 Sep 1974
Constance Annie Mott, dd 17 Nov 1985, bd 25 Nov 1985
John Ewart Masser, dd Nov 1995
Edward Dormer, dd 2 Nov 1997
Peter Francis Goddard, dd 28 Sep 2007
Annette Blanche Dormer, dd 31 Mar 2013

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. 

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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