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21st March 2014
Most of us spend half our lives wishing the working week away in order to have a break from work and ‘have a life’ at the […]
20th March 2014
‘Histories of 1052 British motor manufacturers – with over 500 photographs – in business between 1894 and 1960, including those that never made it past the […]
19th March 2014
Whenever I meet someone for the first time and they ask what I do, I always say ‘I’m an Heir Hunter‘ and then leave a long […]
18th March 2014
We all have them. But how interesting are our stories to others? Well, it depends how you tell the story really…. This morning started early with […]
17th March 2014
In the late fourth or early fifth century, the possibly Welsh-born patron saint of Ireland, St Patrick, was captured by pirates and sold to slavery in […]
16th March 2014
William George was the first child of Richard and Mary Anne (nee Jordan) Sillifant. Following their marriage in 1870, William George was born in early 1871 […]
15th March 2014
Writing this blog each day is a constant learning curve. From new discoveries about my own ancestors for #52Ancestors to delving deeper into family, local and […]
14th March 2014
On this day in history, Admiral John Byng (born 1704), the son of the 1st Viscount Torrington, George Byng, was executed in Portsmouth in 1757. He […]
13th March 2014
Hatched, matched and dispatched…. family historians are often more interested in the hatching and the matching, than the dispatching and more often than not when I […]