Category Archives: Local History

Six Days, Six Stones – Part 6: Astbury

Posted on May 7, 2022 by Lifelines Research

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 | Tagged Astbury, family history, genealogy, gravestones, parish registers, research, Sarah Dutton, St Mary, William Pedley | Leave a comment

Six Days, Six Stones – Part 5: Macclesfield Cemetery

Posted on May 6, 2022 by Lifelines Research

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 | Tagged documents, family history, genealogy, gravestones, Hannah Hulme, John Hulme, Macclesfield, Macclesfield Cemetery, Maggie Bullock, research, Thomas Bullock | 1 Comment

Six Days, Six Stones – Part 4: Longnor, Staffordshire

Posted on May 5, 2022 by Lifelines Research

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 | Tagged churchyards, documents, family history, genealogy, gravestones, Isaac Coates, Longnor, Martha Hulme, parish registers, research, Staffordshire | 3 Comments

Six Days, Six Stones – Part 3: Key Hill Cemetery, Birmingham

Posted on May 5, 2022 by Lifelines Research

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 | Tagged family history, genealogy, gravestones, Key Hill Cemetery, Port family, research, Thomas Port | 7 Comments

Six Days, Six Stones – Part 2: Lacock, Wiltshire

Posted on May 3, 2022 by Lifelines Research

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 | Tagged Benjamin Truman, chest tomb, documents, family history, genealogy, gravestones, lacock, research | 4 Comments

Six Days, Six Stones – Part 1: Dorchester, Oxfordshire

Posted on May 2, 2022 by Lifelines Research

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 | Tagged Dorchester, family history, genealogy, gravestones, Jonathan Granger, Oxfordshire, parish registers, Port, research | 6 Comments

Sunday Morning, Farringdon Road

Posted on March 6, 2022 by Lifelines Research

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 | Tagged Cecil Osborne, documents, East London Group, Farringdon Road, genealogy, Local History, Model Dwellings, research | Leave a comment

Please Release Me…

Posted on January 7, 2022 by Lifelines Research

…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 | Tagged 1921 Census, census, documents, family history, genealogy, latter day saints, research, society of genealogists, the national archives, tna | 6 Comments

The Last of the Moultings

Posted on November 21, 2021 by Lifelines Research

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 | Tagged Bethlem Hospital, census, documents, Evesham, family history, genealogy, parish registers, research, Surnames, the national archives, tna | 3 Comments

A Draper’s Tale

Posted on August 8, 2021 by Lifelines Research

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 →

Posted in Document Sources, Local History, research, Stories | Tagged Birmingham, buckingham, Draper, family history, genealogy, Key Hill Cemetery, research, Smethwick, Soda Manufacturer, Thomas Port | Leave a comment