I just couldn’t believe what I saw, Elizabeth was born in Beaminster, Dorset!
Tag: Dorset
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!
Spiritualism & Ethel Mary Welch
A couple of months ago at a Car Boot sale I came across three old photos in a bag. Having a quick look I could see they were the same lady & with writing on the back, the seller saw me looking & said dismissivly “oh those have all been written on” Just what I…
Thomas Alfred Mead & Florence Ada Ivy Cox
UPDATE…….Another group of my Old Photos returned to their family! After this message from John in Hampshire on this Blog, we corresponded and I am very pleased to say all these photos are now back with the family they belong to, how they ended up at a Car Boot sale in Dorchester is a mystery,…
Salisbury Victorian Photographer Edmund Rogers
I am still catching up on scanning of the old photos that I have acquired this summer, lots of them are CDV cards, they are time consuming because I always scan the backs too. Some of the Photographers had wonderful designs, especially if they lived & worked in a special town or city. This is…
Felix Drake Webbing Manufacturer & Arthur Green Holcombe Brewery
UPDATE June 2019 from Hugh Drake: “I have just picked up a link to your page about the Drake Family of East Coker. A few of the details are new to me but the relationships are correct as it was my father who put all the family tree in good order-he went back as far…
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 entrance to Dorchester Gaol…. I wrote this blog back in 2011, after a book I had just read about Martha Brown, by Nicola Thorne (Rosemary Ellerback) Martha was the last woman to be publicly hanged…
Edward Symonds and Family
UPDATE. 31 Jan 2020. This beautiful photo is now on its way back to family in New South Wales, Australia. Bridport is a lovely market town not far from us, and about a mile from West Bay in Dorset. They have markets there in the streets on a Wednesday and Saturday, and apart from selling…
