The Will of James Swindells, Farmer in Hurdsfield📜
I find these Wills fascinating and truly a work of art, the writing itself is just so beautiful.
Do you know Cicely Burnip?
It says “Cicely Burnip’s Daughter. From Thora with love to Bessy.”
Selina Wonnacott & William Henry Dillon
Scrolling through Ebay one evening I noticed this absolutely beautiful glass Ambrotype photo, unframed, of a couple, taken I thought probably 1855/60’s
Lippiatt, Searle, Cobb & Alder Old Photos (Part 2)
I think from my research so far that these two are Katherine Wilson (Kitty) & Edmund Charles Sear (Charlie)
Frances White married Joseph Hunt 1855
I have traced as far as Margaret R Fee Smith as a descendant from Frances White & Joseph Hunt
The Silby & Seagust Family
I love family group photos, and when the name of the family is written on the back..just pure gold for me. Once again I had a very lucky find. I hadn’t realized until I got home, that I had found three old photos from the same family ! […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
William Richmond Dickens and Family
I found this lovely Wedding photo recently, and tucked inside was a local Christchurch newspaper clipping about the marriage..What luck !Have found the marriage in the records… 1) William R Dickens to Margaret N E Morgan in December 1955 at Christchurch Priory, a beautiful place to get married….We […]
