Kirsty Gray
15th October 2014
You know those days/weeks/months when it seems like nothing is going your way? The times when you seem to work longer hours than ever but the bank […]
14th October 2014
Today is the birth date of Éamon De Valera, Irish ‘rebel’ and later, the first Prime Minister of the Republic of Ireland. He was born in […]
13th October 2014
Sir Henry Irving, the first actor to receive a knighthood, died today in 1905. Born John Henry Brodribb in Keinton Mandeville, Somerset in 1838, the year of Victoria’s […]
12th October 2014
Augusta Matilda. Thank goodness that the Baker family picked their children’s names carefully. Well, the girls at least…. Augusta was the fourth born child of five, […]
11th October 2014
The flagship of King Henry VIII’s navy – named after his sister – the Mary Rose was built in 1509, the year Henry came to the throne. In […]
10th October 2014
…. to the Tyne Bridge, one of Tyneside’s most recognisable icons! For many Geordies nothing means home as much as the Tyne Bridge. The magnificent arch was […]
9th October 2014
When we set out in the big wide world of professional genealogical research, we set our rates for family history and tracing work at a price […]
8th October 2014
In 1952, a total of 108 passengers and four rail crew members were killed and nearly 340 people were injured in a three train crash at […]
7th October 2014
In 1806, the British inventor Ralph Wedgwood (cousin of the potter, Josiah Wedgwood) secured a patent today, for a machine which made the first documented use of […]