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...

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...

In honour of my 45th birthday I thought I would look back on my ancestors in their 45th years. Paternal granddad – Ernest Rowe. Sadly,...

I always had the impression that almanacs were something to do with cricket, weather and astrology. I never imagined that they would be...

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...

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...

1st October is Lincolnshire Day and commemorates the Lincolnshire Rising that started in Louth on 1 October 1536 in reaction to real and...

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

I have always admired Enoch Dingley, my husband’s great great great-uncle, as someone who did not let his disability hold him back.

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

On 30 July 1913, a lovely warm day in Nottingham, Arthur William Ludgrove married Elizabeth Marion Murfin.[1] The 1911 census shows that...

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...

I found this brass tray at an antiques fair. Fellow genealogists will understand the immediate compulsion on seeing the names and dates...

Another exciting day of research in the Hallam household began with the discovery of an interesting grave in London Road Cemetery,...

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...

The assault on Anzio by the British 1st Division was virtually unopposed by the German forces. My granddad, Edgar Frank Hallam, was a...

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...

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...

Today I was browsing through the British Newspaper Archive when the following short piece from the Dundee Courier (5 December 1934)...

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...