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Reverend Edward Chad Varah was born on this day in 1911 in the town of Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire. His parents, William Edward Varah and Mary Atkinson, married […]

And so endeth The Genealogist’s A-Z and yesterday, many of you were left wondering what Monday would bring …. in more ways than one! In fact, […]

….and finally, Z is for zigarius – a nineteenth century term for a gypsy. On historical documentation, you will rarely find reference to families being gypsies, […]

…. Generation Y. Ah ha…. you thought it would be Y-DNA didn’t you?! Globally, generation Y (gen Y) refers broadly to individuals born between 1975 and […]

….how exasperating the day appears to be today! Desperate not to do X for illiteracy or the obvious X for Xmas, there does still need to […]

…. well, it was going to be about Workhouses. Then I changed my mind and decided to make it about Women in War (one of my […]

OK, so I have become slightly obsessed with stupid names today, possibly to the detriment of the ‘to do’ list but it has certainly brought laughter […]

…. Unbelievable. Russell Ash comments in Potty, Fartwell and Knob, that ‘some are born with strange surnames, some are blessed, or cursed, with unusual first or […]