Sometimes when I’m researching I get a feeling that there is much more to a family than I have found, I expect others get this too, a sort of sixth sense. Oh I was right!!!!
Category: Dorset
John Edward Foss Ford Ambrotypes
I just couldn’t believe what I saw, Elizabeth was born in Beaminster, Dorset!
Five puzzle CDV photos with names.
Five CDV’s I would love to know more about, can you help? I know some of you love a puzzle!
In Memory of Rosemary Anne Scudamore🌹
I felt that I must try to finish what Anne had started, and I hope that I have achieved that
The Gibbs Family of Beaminster. Pt 2.
What a bonus to have another photo that is written on of the same Gibbs family!
William John Gibbs, Baker & Confectioner🍞🥖🧁Beaminster, Dorset. Pt 1.
Imagine my surprise when I looked on the back of these photos to see they were of a family from Beaminster, Dorset!
Walter, Matilda, Kathleen, Betty and Daisy Bartlett
These two lovely Postcard Photos I couldn’t resist, they are just adorable children aren’t they……..
Fudge, Park and Ginn Family Part 2.
More of the old photos & more information about his biological Mum’s side of the family, GINN
Fudge, Park & Ginn Family Pt 1
So they hadn’t got Victor’s name wrong after all! What a surprise!
Vicars & Nuns. Canon Robert Sparke Hutchings & Rev George Cyril Hutchings
I have found that Robert Sparke Hutchings was the very first Vicar of St Andrew’s Church, Monkton Wyld in 1850
Frederick Thomas Turrell & Ethel Queenie Ivy Winzar Crispe Wedding 1927
Found recently at the Fleamarket & what a surprise I had when I got home & turned this one over!
Martha Brown Hanging 160 years on
On this date 160 years ago at just a few minutes after 8am Elizabeth Martha Brown was hanged at the … More
Mysteries..Annie Long, Albert Palies, Helene Javet and Uncle Maston
As you all know, the majority of my old photos that are in my collection, are nameless. Occasionally though I … More
Sarah Simmonds Family Bible (Sarah Cant)
Praise ye the Lord On our way back from our last little trip in the Motorhome to Sussex, we stopped … More
