Usually, when you’re doing family history research, you can just find bare bones of a life, the births, marriages and deaths, addresses and jobs from censuses. But occasionally, you find yourself finding a far richer story, whether it’s been born in a workhouse and left in England when your parents emigrate to the US, or […]
Florence Pashley was my great-grandmother and was one of the first relatives we started to gather information on way back in the 80’s when all of this research was done by occasional trips to London to the records office (in Islington at that point) and trips to local records. A slow build-up of information that […]
Time to explore the known history of another of my ancestors, this time great-grandfather Jack (christened John) Harrison. A fitting choice for a Remembrance Sunday weekend, being the only one of my direct ancestors that I know served in a World War. Jack was born 29 April 1899, at 33 Crosby Street. His father was […]
For around 30 years, I’ve been slowly building up what I know about my family history. Starting from occasional visits to the Family Record office in London with Mom, to look things up and order new records it slowly moved to online research as records were digitised and most of it can now be done […]