Memories

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My Grandmother Was From Cippenham And Moved To Canada

I and my sister are trying to get geneaology info on our maternal grandmother who grew up in Cippenham. Her name was Mary Freeman and she was the daughter of Daniel and Roseann Freeman of Balt's ...Read more

A memory of Cippenham in 1890 by Marje Murphy

Thomas Ledsham Wilkinson

My wife Joan's grandfather Thomas Ledsham Wilkinson owned various fish and poultry shops in Chester on and around Eastgate Street and Watergate Street.  We recently visited Chester to try and trace the one shop we thought he ...Read more

A memory of Chester in 1890 by Derek Aynsley

Southgate Hotel

My Great Great Grandparents were William and Elizabeth Pratt. In the 1880s William and his family had lived and worked on the Longleat Estate, William was the Head Gardener at that time. In 1891 they moved to Bath, and sadly William died ...Read more

A memory of Bath in 1890 by Clive Pratt

A Happy Memory

Whenever I heard the words "The Mumbles" as a child, it conjured up a very romantic image in my mind. According to family history, my Great-grandfather Thomas Stokes proposed to my Great-grandmother Matilda Thomas there. I can just ...Read more

A memory of Mumbles, The in 1890 by Karen Larson

My 2nd Great Grandfather

From Parish magazine - Fittleton:- IN MEMORIAM - JAMES YEATES On February 2nd the Feast of Purification there passed to his rest one who will be long missed in this parish. James Yeates was born June 18 1817 in the same ...Read more

A memory of Fittleton in 1890

Sunday Family Outing

My grandmother lived at No.25 Byres Road, a short walk from the Botanical Gardens and spent many Sunday afternoons examining the gardens with her siblings & parents. She also was courted there by my grandfather-to-be. In ...Read more

A memory of Glasgow in 1890 by Geoffrey Brace