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Cecil (Arthur William) Mountain and Winifred May Labrum
Another adorable wedding photograph with names and dates on the reverse – my favourite thing to find! This is the wedding of Cecil...

Nicola
Dec 6, 20246 min read
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Corderoy family of Regents Park and Ealing
I never know where these family history blog entries are going to take me. Some are straightforward – a story of a life - while others...

Nicola
Oct 20, 202312 min read
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William Armstrong Ramsay - a Durham miner
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,...

Nicola
Oct 9, 20235 min read
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Who's that girl?
This appears therefore to be Christiana Bourchier, daughter of John Bourchier and Charlotte Chadwick of Baggotstown, Co Limerick. She...

Nicola
Aug 8, 20235 min read
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A Tale of Two Sisters
These two lovely ladies are Marguerite and Mary Constance Smart (seated), sisters from Nottingham. They were the children of George...

Nicola
Jun 22, 20237 min read
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Charles Henry Fairfax - a Lincolnshire vicar
These beautiful miniatures are portraits of Reverend Charles Henry Fairfax and his wife Emmeline Marion nee Cookson. Charles was vicar of...

Nicola
Apr 9, 202311 min read
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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...

Nicola
Sep 30, 20228 min read
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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...

Nicola
Mar 8, 20226 min read
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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? ...

Nicola
Jan 7, 20228 min read
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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...

Nicola
Oct 7, 20215 min read
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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...

Nicola
Nov 17, 20204 min read
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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...

Nicola
Sep 23, 20208 min read
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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,...

Nicola
Aug 18, 20202 min read
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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...

Nicola
Aug 10, 20203 min read
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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...

Nicola
Jul 9, 20209 min read
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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...

Nicola
Jun 24, 20209 min read
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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...

Nicola
Oct 1, 20195 min read
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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

Nicola
Aug 16, 20192 min read
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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.

Nicola
Aug 5, 20198 min read
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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

Nicola
Jul 17, 201911 min read
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