Every Family has a story to tell……….Welcome to mine
About Forgotten Ancestors – Every family tree holds stories lost to time, distant relatives whose lives passed quietly, leaving barely a mark, but whose experiences shaped the generations that followed. In this series, I explore the lives of those forgotten ancestors, bringing their names, stories, and voices back into the light. “History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy … Continue reading Forgotten Ancestors: Remembering James Hallsey
This is the 10th in my series of blogs recounting the lives of my 2 x Great Grandparents and next up is Louisa Hallsey. Louisa Hallsey was the 7th and youngest child born to Daniel Hallsey and Harriet Hallsey nee Simmons. She was born in January 1836 and Baptised at St. Peter and St. Paul … Continue reading The Life and Times of Louisa Hallsey
For those of you that follow me online, you will have no doubt seen the post I made on Father's Day, about the amazing DNA breakthrough that I made on my Family Tree, to say that I was excited is the biggest understatement of the year!!! To give you some background, after I started researching … Continue reading My DNA Breakthrough and Looking for a Needle in a Haystack
This is the sixth in my series of blogs telling the life stories of my 2 x Great Grandparents and next up we have Emma Sophia Lukes. Sometimes we get an instinct, or even a gut feeling about one of our Ancestors, sometimes there is a feeling that goes beyond the paper records and in … Continue reading The Life and Times of Emma Sophia Lukes
Welcome to Week 14 of my Genealogy Challenge, from the wonderful Amy Johnson Crow, of writing something about one of my Ancestors every week for a year, #52Ancestors in 52 Weeks. Week 14's prompt is "Water" and if there was any doubt about my families qualification for this category then the fact that there are … Continue reading #52Ancestors “Water”
This is the second of my series of blogs on the mammoth challenge of documenting the lives of my 2 x Great Grandparents, next up is Thomas Elisha Day, and what a very interesting and enterprising Ancestor he was! Thomas was born on 1st February 1836, at St.Pancras, London, the youngest child born to Thomas … Continue reading The Life and Times of Thomas Elisha Day
The Chiddicks Family Tree 