I love being a detective! Great article Paul. I have come across ancestors who lied in official records. Unravelling some of the complicated situations has been challenging and very rewarding. It's amazing where breadcrumbs and clues can be found. Watch out for my most recent blog post soon ...
Best concert I ever went to was in 1997 and Shirley Bassey was performing, with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, at the Leeuwin Estate (winery) in Margaret River, Western Australia. The outdoor concert, nestled between the trees and the vines was sensational 🎼🎤
One of the photos from my grandparents photo album. This was taken in #Runcorn #Cheshire. The lady in the back holding a child is my 2 x Great Grandmother Mary Edwards Nee Clucas - she died in 1920 aged 81 #familyhistory
Meet my husband’s 2 x great grandfather, Theodore Horatio Thompson, who was born in Faversham, Kent, UK in 1822 (not 1824). He journeyed to South Australia with his mother and stepfather in 1838. He married in 1849 and had 15 children! #familyhistory
Remembering Robert Hornby, the brother of my great grandmother. Robert was killed in action in France on this day in 1918. He was 18 years old 🥲 My great grandmother died in the 1960s when I was a toddler so even though Robert died 108 years ago, I feel a connection #familyhistory
It was nice to see my article “Ancestral Warnings from Beyond the Grave” recognized as one of the winners of the 2025 Best Articles Competition in the Liverpool Family Historian Journal. #familyhistory
Interesting British government poster from 1888 about Emigration to #Australia #Canada and #SouthAfrica. #migration #history #1880s
Having a name like Tattersall Warburton makes it so much easier to see that I’m on the right track with this family 😉
Don’t you just love unusual names when researching your family tree? I’m investigating the informant on my 2 x GGF’s death certificate. It says he is a cousin and his name is John Thomas Warburton and I’m building his tree to find a link to my Barnes line. His brother is Tattersall 🎉 #familyhistory
One of my husband’s aunts who was married in the #1950s in #Perth Western Australia #familyhistory #genealogy #weddingdress
I’ve been some work on my family tree today.
Let me introduce you to my great grandparents, Robert William and Hannah Barnes (nee Cunliffe) both were born in Lancashire and moved to #Runcorn #Cheshire around 1912 where they managed and later owned the Billiard Hall #familyhistory #oldphotos
A poem from the seventies, written by my mother, which has stayed with me since childhood. #familyhistory #genealogy #television #poetry #70s
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Latest @federationfhs.bsky.social is now out -
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Lead article is To Work or Get Married – that is the Question! by @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social member Ann Simcock aka @gwilymsmum.bsky.social
@tamoralady.bsky.social I really enjoyed your interview on the @familyhistoriespodcast.com Natalie!
Wouldn’t it be lovely to have a real Time Machine (no offence Andrew 😉) or at least historical video recordings of our ancestors lives so we could work out what they were doing and why 😀
Many of these ideas are on my list to blog about Paul - I have stories about shipwrecks, bombings, adventures, migration, lies and many skeletons I have dug out of closets. I just need more time to write!
My great grandmother’s twin brothers James and John Henry Rutter (left and right) were born on this day (21st March) in 1885 in Styal, Cheshire, UK. The man in the middle is John McCloud(?). #familyhistory #cheshire
On this day (16th March) 1989, we farewell my maternal grandmother Cissie who was born in Runcorn, Cheshire in 1914. She was an amazing pianist and organist and played at various churches over the years. #familyhistory #runcorn #genealogy
I have ordered a death certificate (hopefully the right one) for a 4x Great Grandfather who is a brick wall. Thomas Johnston, a joiner, was born in Lancashire (1841 census - Liverpool) circa 1810. His wife Esther (nee Rigby) was a widow on the 1851 census.
I’m yet to find his birth/baptism record.
Photo circa 1926 Heyworth Street Council School Liverpool England
I have traced my ancestors in Liverpool back about 350 years.
This is a school photo of my grandmother Frances Foster (born 1914) seated in the 2nd row, 3rd from the left - Heyworth Street Council School.
I’m guessing Nana was about 12 years old, making this photo 100 years old. #liverpool
Today I visited the oldest building in Perth, Western Australia - the old courthouse, completed in 1836. That’s not old by European standards but the Swan River Colony was only founded in 1829. #history #perth
Being from Liverpool, we have a strong family connection with the sea. Many of my ancestors were sailmakers and this 1935 obituary for Douglas Lucas, my 2x great uncle says his death brought to an end more than 200 years of Lucas sailmakers in #liverpool #familyhistory
I had some ancestors who lived in court housing in #liverpool. A fellow family history society member shared this very interesting article - A History of Liverpool's Courtyard Housing with Elizabeth Stewart #housing #history liverpooluniversitypress.blog/2020/02/18/a...
I’m a member of 3 family history societies 😉 2 UK ones and 1 in Western Australia - Liverpool/Lancashire (where I was born) and Cheshire where most of my recent ancestors lived and the Swan River Pioneers - my husband’s ancestors arrived very early in Perth/Fremantle’s settlement.
My husband’s Scottish Uncle Jock always used to say, “let it develop”.
Sometimes we worry to much about what may or may not happen so I always think of Uncle Jock and then just let it develop 😉
Apparently the mother didn’t speak for about 6 months after the bombing. Their 2 yo son Joe had whooping cough and they had another young baby so the mum stayed home with them and sent the other kids with the 17yo daughter to the shelter which took a direct hit 🥲 #WWII
The saddest photo on my family tree. My great grandfather’s brother and his wife lost a young child in 1929 then lost 4 children in the Durning Road bombing in Liverpool in WWII 🥲 #familyhistory #liverpool #WWIi
In my latest blog post, I write about my husband's family - two brothers who tragically died young in separate motorcycle accidents in South Australia nearly 100 years ago. #familyhistory #motorcycle #southaustralia
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My sister and I also visited the Wycoller Hall ruins and park which was said to have been the inspiration for Ferndown Manor in Jane Eyre. This house was once owned by the Cunliffe family - one of our Lancashire family lines so we had a personal as well as literary interest in seeing it.
How lovely. Last year my sister and I visited the UK (from Australia) and went to their next home, the parsonage in Haworth which was fab too. When my husband and I later went to Penzance we saw the house where Maria Bronte (Bramwell) was born. So much wonderful history!
Excited to discover the death notice of my 4x great grandmother in an 1888 Liverpool newspaper which confirms her father’s name and gives me her grandfather’s name 😀 #familyhistory