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Another adorable wedding photograph with names and dates on the reverse – my favourite thing to find!  This is the wedding of Cecil...

I never know where these family history blog entries are going to take me. Some are straightforward – a story of a life - while others...

A cup with a name AND a date (of birth?) on it!? How could I resist! Let’s see what we can find out about William Armstrong Ramsay,...

This appears therefore to be Christiana Bourchier, daughter of John Bourchier and Charlotte Chadwick of Baggotstown, Co Limerick. She...

These two lovely ladies are Marguerite and Mary Constance Smart (seated), sisters from Nottingham. They were the children of George...

These beautiful miniatures are portraits of Reverend Charles Henry Fairfax and his wife Emmeline Marion nee Cookson. Charles was vicar of...

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...

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...

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? ...

The item in the photograph is a small silver case, almost falling apart really, inside there are bands of dark blue silk. Whether a...

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