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Alice was the twelfth of fourteen known children of William Day who had six children with his first wife, Elizabeth Everett and eight children with Sarah […]

What a lovely Saturday off…. well, kind of ‘off’…. in so much as I had the middle part of the day away from the laptop! Quite […]

Oh goodness – three and a half hours sleep after my trip to London and a royally hectic day today! As usual, the day kicks off with my […]

(if you haven’t read Part One, please read first for context of Terrific Thursday) Although I left the Royal Courts of Justice needing something stronger than […]

Well, that was what I had hoped anyway…. Long planned kind-of-day-off in London, meeting up with Ma & Pa FWL (who incidentally came up the company […]

The thing is, there is no normal. While normal may exist in other phenomena, it certainly does not apply to being human. While our DNA may […]

To whom it may concern: I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for interrupting the flow of my morning. I had been ‘in […]

The world of family, local and social history has grown exponentially over the last decade in particular. Whilst the commercial sites are expanding with newly digitised […]

Thomas Elford was my gggg-grandfather on my father’s side – a long way back! He was born in 1804 and baptised in Plympton St Maurice on […]