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Rebels of Louth: Thomas and Robert Spencer
In honour of Lincolnshire Day on 1 October an examination of two Louth men who were involved in the Rising that began in Louth on 1...
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Nicola
- Mar 8, 2022
- 6 min
A moment in time in Lincoln
I found this photograph in a shop in Lincolnshire and it immediately caught my attention. It shows a crowd of women in the street, some...
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Nicola
- Jan 7, 2022
- 8 min
On a summer's day in 1899...
When I see an old wedding photograph I always wonder who they are, the bride and groom, setting out on life together. Were they happy? ...
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Nicola
- Oct 7, 2021
- 5 min
Ida Mary Goshawk: Quite a good sort
The item in the photograph is a small silver case, almost falling apart really, inside there are bands of dark blue silk. Whether a...
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Nicola
- Nov 17, 2020
- 4 min
My local Lincolnshire Poacher
The village I live in is very small. When I was researching for my MSc project on poachers in Lincolnshire I knew the odds were small for...
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Nicola
- Sep 23, 2020
- 8 min
Thomas Huddleston "uncontrollably violent and dangerous"
As a genealogist and wife of an ex-gravedigger I have spent a fair amount of time in cemeteries and graveyards. I have become quite adept...
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Nicola
- Aug 18, 2020
- 2 min
Snapshots at 45
In honour of my 45th birthday I thought I would look back on my ancestors in their 45th years. Paternal granddad – Ernest Rowe. Sadly,...
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Nicola
- Aug 10, 2020
- 3 min
The joy of Almanacks
I always had the impression that almanacs were something to do with cricket, weather and astrology. I never imagined that they would be...
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Nicola
- Jul 9, 2020
- 9 min
Story behind the headstone Pt 2: I wished to be free of him...
When we left Helmore he was in prison and a Colonel Walter Russell Johnson had enquired about the case. Who was he and why was he getting...
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Nicola
- Jun 24, 2020
- 9 min
Story behind the headstone Pt 1: genealogical goosebumps
As the bullet casing fell from the envelope onto the desk in front of me goosebumps rose up on my arms. I had ordered up a court martial...
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Nicola
- Oct 1, 2019
- 5 min
Happy Lincolnshire Day!
1st October is Lincolnshire Day and commemorates the Lincolnshire Rising that started in Louth on 1 October 1536 in reaction to real and...
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Nicola
- Aug 16, 2019
- 2 min
A family resumé
I realised that I sometimes write in my blog about random family members but that a few more details of my family lines might be useful in o
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Nicola
- Aug 5, 2019
- 8 min
Adventures of Enoch Dingley
I have always admired Enoch Dingley, my husband’s great great great-uncle, as someone who did not let his disability hold him back.
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Nicola
- Jul 17, 2019
- 11 min
Long read - Lincolnshire emigrants to New Zealand
William Bocock, a 21-year-old farm labourer, and his wife Betsy Ann, aged 20, sailed on the Halcione which left Gravesend for New Zealand on
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Nicola
- Jul 3, 2019
- 7 min
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, 2018
- 2 min
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, 2018
- 3 min
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, 2017
- 3 min
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, 2017
- 4 min
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
- Jan 22, 2017
- 2 min
Anzio
The assault on Anzio by the British 1st Division was virtually unopposed by the German forces. My granddad, Edgar Frank Hallam, was a...
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