[Magdalen] My Grand-niece's christening

[Sibyl Smirl]

On 6/5/16 9:15 PM, Arthur Laurent wrote:
> Rowan Elizabeth Margaret Stewart is the first of a new generation. She was born 29 March (gladly not getting too close to April 1 (her uncle the Navy Corpsman's birthday), and christened this morning at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Alexandria. Four generation of my family have been christened, confirmed, married and had funerals celebrated in St. Paul's.

Let us welcome the Newly Baptized!

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May was a very strange month for me.  I lost two cousins, one of them a 
First cousin, 20 years older than I, and the other a "First half+ cousin 
once removed" (that's a long story), just four years older than I, both 
descendents of one of my grandfathers; one on May 5, one on May 25, then 
my birthday at two years past my three-score and ten, then Memorial Day 
(which, with the custom in my area, is for _all_ of our family graves 
and our family dead, including the ones who went long before we were 
born, not just military deaths).  Then, two brand-new babies arrived 
(before Memorial Day, actually) on the same day of Mem Day Weekend, both 
announcements showing up right next to each other on my Facebook 
Newsfeed, which is arranged by "Most Recent".  One of them is the 
great-grandson of the 92-year-old first cousin (on my father's side of 
my family), who died, and the other the great-granddaughter of one of my 
living first cousins on my mother's side of the family.  I don't suppose 
they'll ever meet, and not related to each other by blood at all, only 
through the marriage of my parents.  But it does seem like some sort of 
synchronicity or omen, that my families are going on.

I do have two granddaughters of my very own!  ;^)
Who are, of course, distant cousins to both babies and both of those who 
passed.






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