Has it really been eight years? I plead ill health (including a heart transplant) and other projects. Stalbridge Weston Manor looks at the history of a small Dorset manor, and Lichfield Memorial at the First World War fallen of that small English city.
It’s been a while, but I’ve finally published a version of the tree I’ve spent the last couple of years reviewing and improving. Some people have vanished, some people have appeared, and inevitably there’s still work to do on it.
It’s a very satisfying feeling when you break down a brick wall… even if all this one took was 14 years of effort and finally and belatedly, the application of the FAN principle.
I’ve been doing some research over the past few months that makes extensive use of the new indices recently published by the GRO of their birth and death registers for England and Wales.
There is much in common between researching family history in Wales and England, but there is also very much that is different.
One of the pleasures of revisiting my family history research is taking the time to fill in details I previously skipped over, from inexperience or lack of accessible records.
Emigration of British Home Children to Canada to be used as indentured farm workers and domestics was and remains controversial.
When my maternal grandfather Thomas Jones (1905 – unknown) was demobilised from the British Army in early 1946, he was provided with a testimonial that read: ‘A good worker under supervision. He is honest.’
My great-grandparents John Stanley Wright and Mary Ann Harper had six sons between 1883 and 1899, so all of them were of an age where they might have served in World War I.