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Tag Archives: newspapers
The Respectable Printer Of The Times
This is the second part of the story of John Joseph Lawson, printer of The Times. In the first part, A Gross And Scandalous Libel, I covered his ‘trial’ in the House of Lords in 1831. In Part 2, I’m … Continue reading →
Posted in Document Sources, research, Stories
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Tagged biography, Court of Queen's Bench, documents, family history, genealogy, John Joseph Lawson, libel, national portrait gallery, newspapers, research, The Times
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Back From The Dead?
This is the second part of the story of Stephen Willis, the Ramsgate hawker, and his parents, Stephen Willis senior and Ellen (née Foley). In the first part, we followed Stephen senior from his birth in Bishopsbourne near Canterbury in … Continue reading →
Posted in Document Sources, Local History, research, Stories, Surnames
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Tagged census, Hawkers, newspapers, Ramsgate, the national archives, Willis family
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Blank spaces and circumstantial evidence
This is the fourth part of the three-part story of the life of my great, great, great grandmother, Mary Ann Port, which aims to explain why, despite the absence of evidence that she ever had any children, I believe her … Continue reading →
Posted in research, Stories
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Tagged biography, buckingham, census, Dorchester, family history, genealogy, Hertfordshire, newspapers, research, tna
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My friend Miss Mary Ann Port
This is the third and final part of the story of my great, great, great grandmother, Mary Ann Port. You can read the first part here and the second part here. The long, drawn-out Chancery Case, Port v. Hovil[1], had … Continue reading →
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Tagged biography, buckingham, documents, family history, genealogy, newspapers, research
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The story behind the stone
About 35 years ago, I was involved with a project to record the monumental inscriptions in Aldenham churchyard for the Hertfordshire Family History Society. The churchyard contains hundreds of gravestones but one in particular, recording the death of a woman … Continue reading →
Posted in Local History, Stories
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Tagged Aldenham, census, documents, drowning, family history, gravestones, Hertfordshire, newspapers, research
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