27^th APRIL – HILDA LILLY GALE

Today marks the birth of my maternal Great-Great-Aunt, Hilda. She was the youngest of 11 children of William & Sarah GALE (you can find their story back on Sunday, 25 August 2013). Hilda was baptized at St Mary’s Islington on 11^th September 1878 and married Arthur Ernest HALLETT at this church on 23 December 1902. Hilda died in Hendon in June 1949.

26^th APRIL – HELEN MACKENZIE

My maternal Great-Great Aunt Helen MACKENZIE was born on this day in 1840. She was baptized in the parish of Urray, Ross & Cromarty Scotland on the 22 May and she was the youngest sibling of my Great-Great Grandfather Ronald MACKENZIE.