Genealogy and other jottings

Genealogy or perhaps more Family History. Not just straight forward (or backward) family lines, but brothers and sisters, the neighbourhoods that they lived in and some information about what was happening at the time.

Sunday, October 29, 2017

Is Remembrance now just a photo shoot?

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Those who know me will know that I am not a jingoist of any kind so I make no apology for returning to the subject of remembering the dea...
Thursday, October 19, 2017

A hundred years ago

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Frederick Feston died just over one hundred years ago on 25th October 1917. One of the casualties of the Third battle of Ypres that they ...
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Tuesday, August 22, 2017

A crowd, a host

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To borrow from Wordsworth "I saw a crowd, a host ..........of people" I was in my early twenties and hadn't seen a cro...
Saturday, August 12, 2017

First bath for forty years

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Went on holiday recently and the bathroom had no shower so I had my first bath for about forty years. Had forgotten how relaxing it can b...
Monday, July 31, 2017

In Flanders field

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July 2017 marks the centenary of the Third battle of Ypres  By most definitions one of the bloodiest and controversial of all the dreadfu...
Friday, June 9, 2017

A Soldier's Wife

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. My Maltese great grandmother Liberatta Xerri was what is now called an army wife. In 19th century Malta her policeman husband died le...
Friday, May 5, 2017

Kindness is alive and well and can be found on a Virgin train.

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Arrived at Euston station last night on our way back from Slovenia just too late to catch the fast train to warringon.  Instead of waitin...
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