How to write your memoirs of childhood: 4 traps to avoid
Thinking of writing your memoirs of childhood? You’ve chosen a good time. With interest in genealogy and social history increasing, many people are posting old family...
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The Jollyman Letters: project progress November 2016
Researching my family history was a joy this month.
Returning from our honeymoon, my new husband and I stopped outside a familiar sight: the thatched cottage in Great Bardfield, Essex, where I and my sisters used to stay with our great aunt, Miss Mary Jollyman.
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Herbert Jollyman’s WW1 army training at Chatham Barracks
When Herbert Jollyman marched off to the Great War, he and his wife Hepsie promised to share every detail of each other’s lives, although they were apart. They...
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Cornock family history research: change old money into new
It’s hard to understand the value of money back in the past. For example, when writing home during the 1800s from Australia to his wife in Bristol, UK, my ancestor Peter Cornock describes his purchase of a ring:
At Auction, I got incredibly low figures, I invested 20/- in a gold ring with a crest in a bloodstone, exactly the same color as my initials in pencil case (of course it is always its value) The Crest is a Griffin with a bird in Collar I intend to seal one of my letters with it.
So, did he get a bargain?
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My Mum’s Guide to Ladylike Behaviour (and why it didn’t work!)
My mother raised us to be feminine and ladylike. It didn’t work. My sisters and I usually wore dresses or skirts, even when building a treehouse or playing in the snow....
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A wonderful Christmas surprise – my WW1 ration parcel
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Loxford School, Ilford – photos for family history #1
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Victorian Girl Workers of London: 1. The Match-Box Makers
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Loxford School, Ilford – photos for family history #2
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Victorian photo #27: Pulpit Rock, Bonchurch, Isle of Wight (100 Gems of English Scenery)
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George Millman and the Isle of Wight doughnut mystery
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The Jollyman Letters: a 100-year-old story of love and war
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Victorian photo #15: The Arched Rock, Freshwater, Isle of Wight (100 Gems of English Scenery)
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A visit to Brading Church, Isle of Wight in 1892
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A patchwork of history
