Mayflower Rose and Izannah Walker!

Emma Fashions a Mayflower Rose Tussie Mussie in Remembrance of the Pilgrims!

Cool autumnal weather brings out the best in the Mayflower David Austin Rose.

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The Mayflower rose makes a delightful long lasting bouquet with an old fashioned rose fragrance.

A couple of weeks ago Emma spied the very last rose of the season. Along with some rose geranium leaves and some late lavender that she had gathered before, she decided to make a Mayflower Rose tussie mussie. Emma remembers all of my Pilgrim ancestors whilst she fashions the Mayflower tussie mussie!

Emma loves the fragrance of the old fashioned Mayflower Rose!

Emma is a doll inspired by the old Izannah Walker dolls.
September 25th, 2017 would have been Izannah Walker's 200th birhday.
Izannah Walker is a distant cousin of mine through my Gaskill family of early New England.
Also, Izannah Walker lived in New England and her Walker ancestors lived very near where my Walker ancestors came from.

The David Austin Mayflower Rose is named after the Mayflower, the ship that brought the Pilgrims to America in 1620.

I descend from Mayflower passengers Myles Standish, George Soule, Stephen Hopkins and his daughter Constance, Edward Fuller and his wife, Peter Brown, John Howland, John Tilley, his wife Joan (Hurst) Tilley and their daughter Elizabeth, Richard Warren and am researching Isaac Allerton, his wife Mary (Norris) Allerton and their daughter Mary, two different lines to Francis Cooke and another line to Stephen Hopkins with his wife Elizabeth (Fisher) Hopkins.

Little Tillie Tinkham, the seamstress mouse for the dolls at Corgyncombe, is a descendant of the Brown mouse family who came on the Mayflower. Mayflower passenger Peter Brown's daughter Mary Brown Mouse married into the Tinkham mouse family.

Emma places her tussie mussie in a spot where all can enjoy its loveliness!

Such simple elegance!

Outside, the roses are now bundled up for winter and we all look forward to fragrant and lovely spring blooms!

Happy Thanksgiving
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Remembrances on Veterans Day

Hoping the War Will Be Over Soon So We Can See Each Other Again...

The brother pictured above died whilst in the service.
He was only 19 and had a special sweetheart at home who he planned to marry.
In a letter to one of his brothers in the service he wrote that he was hoping the war would be over soon so that all the brothers could see each other again.

In his last letter home he wrote of his love for his family.
Also in the photograph above is one of the Western Union Telegrams sent when he died.
Sally Ann said that at the funeral there was not a dry eye in the church.
Her brother's favorite hymns were played at the service on the organ.
The older two brothers were unable to attend the funeral as one was in Panama and the other in Africa.

Uncle's Service Photo Album, Fort Andrews, Boston Harbor, Mass. The photograph is of him leaving home after his last leave.

Uncle with his Grandmum (his Father's Mum)
His Grandmum's ancestors in the Scott, Keyes, and Adams families served in the Revolutionary War.

Sally Ann, sad to see her brother leaving to go back to Fort Andrews.

Uncle and his Sweetheart

Sally Ann's baby brother, wearing his aviator hat, posed atop the mailbox in front of the family home. The family mailbox where news from home was sent and news from the three brothers in the service was eagerly watched and waited for.

Letters sent home by the three brothers.

Sally Ann's three older brothers and her father played for dances and special occasions.
The three brothers above all served during World War II.
The brother in the middle is the brother pictured at the top of this post, the one who died in the service.

Sally Ann and her brothers had numerous direct ancestors who served in the Revolutionary War, on both their Mother and Father's side of the family.

Some of the photographs and some of the writings on this post are from previous Corgyncombe Courant posts that can be found here on the Corgyncombe Courant and from our web site and our previous postings elsewhere on the internet.

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