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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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

…. 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 […]

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 which we […]

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 […]

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 […]

Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton was an Irish physicist and Nobel Prize winner. Born on 6 October 1903, he worked with John Cockcroft at Cambridge University in […]

Current events have directed me to this branch of my extended Sillifant family tree…. Yesterday, I attended the Devon FHS AGM & Conference in Exeter. I always love […]