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Sunday, 24 March 2013

Fearless Females 2013: Day 24: Physical Traits

Do you share any physical resemblance or personality trait with one of your female ancestors? Who? What is it?

That's an easy one...and one which makes me sigh.  When I was a baby, I had gappy teeth - and so did my paternal grandmother (although the gaps weren't in the same places).  Now that I am in my fifties, I have her excess weight...

Elsie Beatrice Blagdon (Haywood) McNally, my paternal grandmother, was born on 22 July 1908 in Millbrook, Cornwall, and died 2 February 1975 in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire.

RNH and Elsie Beatrice BLAGDON 1960
Once again, in honour of National Women’s History Month, Lisa Alzo of The Accidental Genealogist blog presents Fearless Females: 31 Blogging Prompts to Celebrate Women’s History Month.  I know this is really US-centric - but that's not going to stop me honouring my own Fearless Females...

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