How do I find out? Well, the RootsMagic genealogy family tree program has a report called "On This Day" and I plugged in December 25 and it gave me nine pages of events and names (about 380 of them) from the nearly 56,000 persons in my database. I went through the list, and confirmed that the below events occurred on Christmas Day for my ancestors:
BIRTHS:
* 1646: Elizabeth Pierce in Charlestown, Massachusetts - 7th great-grandmother
* 1732: Benedict Oatley in South Kingstown, Rhode Island - 5th great-grandfather
MARRIAGES:
* 1647: Robert Treat and Jane Tapp in Milford, Connecticut - 9th great-grandparents
* 1666: Joseph Farwell and Hannah Learned in Chelmsford, Massachusetts - 8th great-grandparents
* 1693: Thomas Horton and Susannah LNU in Rehoboth, Massachusetts - 8th great grandfather
* 1740: Jonas Prescott and Rebecca Jones in Concord, Massachusetts - 6th great-grandfather
* 1852: Edward Hildreth and Sophia Newton in Northborough, Massachusetts - 2nd great-grandparents
DEATHS:
* 1637: John Sweet in Salem, Massachusetts - 10th great-grandfather
Here is the marriage certificate for my second great-grandparents Edward Hildreth and Sophia Newton, who married on 25 December 1852:
They were young - 21 and 18. The marriage was probably performed in the Northborough church or at the bride's home by Minister S.S. Ashley.
Among the long list of events, there is a Mary Christmas Auble who was born in 1897 in Forest, Indiana. What a great and appropriate name! She is a 4th cousin twice removed, not an ancestor.
I also noted that Linda's second great-grandmother, Rachel Morley (1821-1861) was baptized on Christmas Day in Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire. She was an illegitimate child and had a twin sister named Leah who was also baptized on Christmas Day.
I expected to find more births and deaths of ancestors. However, I don't have an exact birth or marriage or death date for some ancestors because of a lack of records or my own negligence.
I'm happy that at least eight of my ancestors married on Christmas Day (two were second marriages not to my ancestor) and I hope they enjoyed the event.
Well, that was some genealogy fun on Christmas Day. Now on to the Ancestry Hints before my nap and dinner out somewhere tonight.
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