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Harold Gresley 7 Jul 2013 | 08:46 pm
A little watercolour in the ownership of my family draws my eye. It is of Dovedale, a notable beauty spot in the Derbyshire Peak District. The signature at the bottom reads H. Gresley. A bit of res...
A hanging matter 4 Jun 2013 | 12:27 am
I have just completed a page on a distant relation, Thomas William Jesshope (1878-1910). Thomas was hung for murdering one of his colleagues while working as a fireman in the Camberwell Empire Music ...
Wills of Irish Soldiers 6 Apr 2013 | 07:57 pm
Ireland is very generous in making genealogical material in the National Archives free – an example that other parts of the British Isles have not generally chosen to follow. The 1901 and 1911 Census...
Using Family History 9 Mar 2013 | 01:10 am
Family history is not just about trees, gedcoms and data. It is about the social history and background of that information. Many writers use family history to explore wider themes. I have just fin...
Read carefully 7 Jan 2013 | 06:57 pm
I was adding a very routine record to one of my trees on Ancestry when I suddenly noticed something interesting. In 1911 a grandchild was noted as being born in Coolmain Castle, Ireland. The family ...
The ‘First’ Lady Mason 24 Sep 2012 | 08:01 pm
Sometimes a story, hit on by chance, just demands to be told. Most off us assume the Freemasons were, historically, an all-male fraternity. But, looking for information on the St Leger family I came...
Friendships 30 Aug 2012 | 11:47 pm
I have just put up a page on Ethel Birks and Dora Painter. These two single women lived and worked much of their lives together. Both teachers they ran a small school in Portsea. Family histories o...
Two Women Librarians 4 Jun 2012 | 03:23 am
As I work through my family tree I come across people, not really part of it, but so interesting that they demand a bit of publicity. Marguerite Duprez Laffy and Belle da Costa Greene were both early...
George Hoby (1759-1832) 23 May 2012 | 03:58 am
As I research my own family I come across interesting people who are not part of it, or on the very edges. Some of them are really worth noting, and one of these is George Hoby (1759-1832). He was ...
Thomas Inch 14 May 2012 | 05:21 am
Sometimes strange, interesting things emerge from family papers. In the back of an old photograph album there was a tiny card, in an envelope hand-addressed to F.E.Birks, my grandfather and dated 190...
