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Category Archives: Local History
Six Days, Six Stones – Part 6: Astbury
This the last of six blogposts written and published on six successive days, in which I take a look at a particular ancestral gravestone that my wife and I visited on our recent road trip. You can read the other … Continue reading →
Posted in Local History, research, Stories, Surnames, Uncategorized
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Tagged Astbury, family history, genealogy, gravestones, parish registers, research, Sarah Dutton, St Mary, William Pedley
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Six Days, Six Stones – Part 5: Macclesfield Cemetery
This is the fifth of six blog posts, written and published over six consecutive days, looking at some of the family graves that my wife and I visited as part of a recent road trip to celebrate our 40th wedding … Continue reading →
Posted in Document Sources, Local History, research, Stories, Surnames
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Tagged documents, family history, genealogy, gravestones, Hannah Hulme, John Hulme, Macclesfield, Macclesfield Cemetery, Maggie Bullock, research, Thomas Bullock
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Six Days, Six Stones – Part 4: Longnor, Staffordshire
This is the fourth of six blog posts written after a recent road trip during which my wife and I visited a number of ancestral burial places. You can read the earlier instalments here: Part 1, Part 2 and Part … Continue reading →
Posted in Document Sources, Local History, research, Stories, Surnames
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Tagged churchyards, documents, family history, genealogy, gravestones, Isaac Coates, Longnor, Martha Hulme, parish registers, research, Staffordshire
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Six Days, Six Stones – Part 3: Key Hill Cemetery, Birmingham
The third of my six blogs posted in consecutive days, focussing on particular family gravestones, is a bit of a cheat. The other five are stones that my wife and I saw for the first time on our recent 40th … Continue reading →
Posted in Document Sources, Local History, research, Stories, Surnames
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Tagged family history, genealogy, gravestones, Key Hill Cemetery, Port family, research, Thomas Port
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Six Days, Six Stones – Part 2: Lacock, Wiltshire
This is the second of six blogs, written and published in six consecutive days, each one focussing on a particular family gravestone which my wife and I visited on our recent 40th Wedding Anniversary road trip. You can read Part … Continue reading →
Posted in Document Sources, Local History, research, Stories
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Tagged Benjamin Truman, chest tomb, documents, family history, genealogy, gravestones, lacock, research
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Six Days, Six Stones – Part 1: Dorchester, Oxfordshire
To mark our 40th Wedding Anniversary, my wife and I arranged a six-day road trip, stopping off at various places connected with our families. Liz, my wife, is an enthusiastic family historian herself so she was very much a partner … Continue reading →
Posted in Local History, research, Stories
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Tagged Dorchester, family history, genealogy, gravestones, Jonathan Granger, Oxfordshire, parish registers, Port, research
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Sunday Morning, Farringdon Road
I’ve always been passionate about art, and a few years ago I stumbled upon a little-known group of early-20th century artists known collectively as the East London Group. I was instantly captivated and wanted to find out more about them. … Continue reading →
Posted in Local History, research, Stories
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Tagged Cecil Osborne, documents, East London Group, Farringdon Road, genealogy, Local History, Model Dwellings, research
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Please Release Me…
…being a very brief history of the releases of the English & Welsh census returns. We need to understand right from the start that the primary purpose of the census has never been to produce a resource for the benefit … Continue reading →
Posted in Local History, research, Soapbox
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Tagged 1921 Census, census, documents, family history, genealogy, latter day saints, research, society of genealogists, the national archives, tna
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The Last of the Moultings
On 2 February 1974, a 72-year old woman called Gladys Elizabeth Moulting died in Canvey Island, Essex. I know very little about Gladys, except that she was the youngest of two children of George Henry and Harriet Amelia Moulting, that … Continue reading →
Posted in Local History, research, Stories, Surnames
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Tagged Bethlem Hospital, census, documents, Evesham, family history, genealogy, parish registers, research, Surnames, the national archives, tna
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A Draper’s Tale
Thomas Port, my great great grandfather, was born on 22 August 1822 in St Pancras, London. There is, however, no official record of his birth or baptism – at least none that I have ever been able to find. The … Continue reading →
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Tagged Birmingham, buckingham, Draper, family history, genealogy, Key Hill Cemetery, research, Smethwick, Soda Manufacturer, Thomas Port
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