Arthur Hollis, Not Forgotten
It’s been a hundred years on the 11th November since the First World War ended. It feels strange talking about an event that happened before mine, my parents and my...
Remembering the Children on the Titanic
It sends shivers down your spine even thinking about those poor men, women and children who lost their lives that dreadful night. The RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton for...
1841 Census
The 1841 census is the earliest and first census in the UK that has survived as a whole. Other census were taken before hand but only parts of each have...
LADY VALERIE MEUX
If you know me I am a bit of a history geek and I used to spend time reading and researching records from where I used to live. It must...
My Railway Ancestor
This month I decided to cover a little bit on railway workers and the sort of records that you can search on ancestry to do with the railway. My great...
Debtors Prison
Debtors Prison was a place of dread and shame. Unlike today owing money and being in debt today as we all know is stressful and inflicts pressure onto families, especially...
The Victorian Dentist
As we have seen from many old photos and family stories that our Victorian ancestors suffered with bad teeth and it is only been in the last eighty years that...
Everything was Hush Hush!
I’m sure that many of us doing family history have found out many unexpected things and unanswered questions out through our research. Many of us are quite taken back when we do...
HMS Thetis (N25)
It was 71 years ago on the 1st June that the submarine HMS Thetis sunk during a trial dive and it sadly took the lives of 99 men. The submarine...
The Workhouse
By the 1870's one-third of the population over 70 lived in the workhouse. There are many reasons why and mainly because people were too poor, sick or too old to...