Memories

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The Dumps And Royal Hill

I just read the coment by Jackie Payne, I would love to see the photo of her mum outside her shop. I often went in this shop when little with my mum and she talks of all the things I used to do, even playing on the dump, ...Read more

A memory of Greenwich by Shirley Marshall

Shoemaker In Llanfwrog

I am trying to find more information about an ancester who I think is my great grandfather. He was a shoemaker, John Jones who lived at Nwrog? St. He was married to Mary Jones and they had a daughter, Jane in 1845.

A memory of Llanfwrog by Glenys Harrison

Yateley

Yateley, from my researches,was a very quiet village, yet being close to Sandhurst Military Acadamy & not that far from Aldershot, was a bolt hole for the military top brass, hence some large elegant houses. One, Glebe House, in Vicarage ...Read more

A memory of Eversley by Janet Mains

Wiseman Street

This is more of a request for information really. I am a Wiseman living in Derbyshire and my Grandfather was born in Burnley and his father too. I was always lead to believe that one of my ancesters was a councillor and maybe lord ...Read more

A memory of Burnley by John Wiseman

Tree

Hello, When I was a small girl I used to be taken to Monks Kirby by my grand parents, I think an ancester lived there way back in time. My grandmother always insisted that I kissed a tree, I think it was outside the Bell Inn ., was this ...Read more

A memory of Monks Kirby in 1946 by Ann Reece

Titleys

I am looking for my ancesters. They lived in Bausley through the 1800s. Their names are John Titley and Jane Briggs. Is there anyone that might help me fill in any missing details. Here are the details from the 1861 census: Address: ...Read more

A memory of Bausley Ho in 1860 by Phillip Latham

Those Younger Days

I remember Wincanton when my grandparents ran the grocery shop in North Street. I often stayed and poped next door to the wonderful cake shop then onto my great uncles who ran Parsons Dairies. I went out with my grandfather when ...Read more

A memory of Wincanton in 1961 by Annette Rosaline Dunn

The Hewer Alias Radbourn Of Northleach And Turkdean

Earlier this year I visited Northleach my husband's Ancesters hail from there. His great great Grandfather William Hewer alias Radbourn bought Leygore farm in 1832, a farm of 800 acres according to ...Read more

A memory of Northleach by Pam Hewer

Stockleys Of Kings Somborne

I am researching my Stockley ancesters who came from Kings Somborne and Mottisfont in Hampshire. The earliest records that I have found so far relate to a William Stockley from Kings Somborne (born around 1695) who ...Read more

A memory of King's Somborne by Jo Siddle

St Endellion Church

In this old and wonderful church I was baptised, went to Sunday school and was confirmed, and every time I enter it I am in awe and feel my ancesters all around me.  Being born and brought up in Trelights, my mother was a ...Read more

A memory of St Endellion in 1940 by Jan Cowling