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Nicola
Jul 3, 20197 min read
Ludgrove and Murfin wedding
On 30 July 1913, a lovely warm day in Nottingham, Arthur William Ludgrove married Elizabeth Marion Murfin.[1] The 1911 census shows that...
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Nicola
Nov 6, 20182 min read
The Armistice has been signed
This memo was sent from the Officer in Command of No 4 Stationary Hospital on 11 November 1918, I assume probably to every ward in the...
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Nicola
Sep 14, 20183 min read
Brass - Bennett Barlow
I found this brass tray at an antiques fair. Fellow genealogists will understand the immediate compulsion on seeing the names and dates...
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Nicola
Aug 8, 20173 min read
RAF - whodunnit
Another exciting day of research in the Hallam household began with the discovery of an interesting grave in London Road Cemetery,...
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Nicola
May 1, 20174 min read
Tracking down Beth
This is Elizabeth Jones, a nurse based at the Anglo Russian Hospital in Petrograd, she arrived in the summer of 1916. In January 1917 she...
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Nicola
Aug 29, 20161 min read
Britannia - Naval cadets 1879
Picked up this random page recently which seems to list all the navy cadets enrolled on 15 January 1879 at Britannia. It seems to have...
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Nicola
May 30, 20162 min read
Jutland - 100 years on - a survivor
Tomorrow as we remember all those lost in the Battle of Jutland let's also remember those who fought and survived, such as Frank Ernest...
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Nicola
Mar 15, 20163 min read
Time Travel and Family History software don't mix!
Today I was browsing through the British Newspaper Archive when the following short piece from the Dundee Courier (5 December 1934)...
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Nicola
Jan 17, 20163 min read
Postcards from the past
One day while rooting through some old postcards at an antiques fair I came across this smiling face. Turning the card over I found my...
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Nicola
Dec 30, 20152 min read
Loveable skeleton in your closet
According to a recent survey lots of family historians are happy to find a scoundrel in their family tree. I quite understand. It adds...
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Nicola
Dec 14, 20153 min read
A weird moment in family history...
Sometimes when you search your family tree back in time you find your ancestors living in neighbouring streets. I like to imagine my...
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Nicola
Nov 30, 20152 min read
Work in progress - a genealogist's work is never done
I bought this photo in a charity shop in Lincoln. I love these old wedding photos but they usually make me sad because they are so often...
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Nicola
Nov 19, 20152 min read
Lions and elephants make hazardous workmates
In London Road Cemetery in Coventry stands a gravestone to William Wombwell and Ellen Blight. When I read the inscription I just had to...
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Nicola
Nov 16, 20151 min read
Family Hi-STORY
What I love about history are the STORIES! There are the big stories: the marital ups and downs of Henry VIII, the tempestuous lives of...
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Nicola
Nov 9, 20152 min read
Handsome Roy
Roy Cumestree Trout was an agricultural chemist from Brisbane. He passed his flying certificate in May 1916 at the Central Flying...
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Nicola
Nov 9, 20156 min read
My Keystone Cop Ancestor
Working at the Fun Factory My maternal grandfather’s parents were Frank Elsdon and Elsie Dickinson. I had done a lot of work on the...
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Nicola
Nov 9, 20151 min read
New Website
So here it is - a new website for us to promote ourselves, the book and share some of the stories that we have discovered along the way....
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