A #OnePlaceWednesday reminder. Can you share your expertise on the role of place in #FamilyHistory research, through a ten minute live or recorded presentation?
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New Batley St Mary of the Angels #OnePlaceStudy Post about a St Patrick’s Day concert in 1901
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My junior school was built in Victorian times & every classroom had a window pole! #OnePlaceWednesday
Might it be worth making contact with the one-placer who has registered the #OnePlaceStudy, to see if collaboration is possible (e.g. each of you taking on different record sets / time periods / places within the place)? #OnePlaceWednesday
Is it worth approaching them & possibly collaborating? Is the study active? #OnePlaceWednesday
When you realise you've developed such an affinity for a place that you're happily considering a #OnePlaceStudy for the future, only to find it already registered by someone else. Woe.
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A poster, headed with small sketches of Framlingham Castle, a postbox, and the village church. Text: Framlingham Local History Fair, Saturday 2nd May, Castle Community Rooms, Church Street, 10:00 to 16:00. The Framlingham History Society is hosting a Local History Fair. There will be many displays of our local history along with other local organisations, including: ● The Lanman Museum ● Alde Valley Suffolk Family History ● Charnwood Genealogy ● Framlingham College ● Parham Airfield Museum ● Saxmundham History Society ● Thomas Mills High School ● Wickham Market Area Archive Centre ● Worlingworth History Group ● Yoxford History Group ● Debenham One-Place Study. Admission is free, but donations would be most welcome. Put this date on your calendar.
Debenham #OnePlaceStudy, and our member Simon Last (Charnwood Genealogy), will be at Framlingham #LocalHistory Fair on Saturday May 2nd. Organised by #Framlingham History Society, and with a variety of local organisations attending, the event is free to attend. #OnePlaceWednesday
If you have a Suffolk #OnePlaceStudy you might be interested to know that there are over 80 Historic Environment Records (HER) Officers across England. To find out more about the Suffolk HER Please visit: heritage.suffolk.gov.uk
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a stock list of P. T. Apparatus from Sudbourne School’s ‘Stock & Stores Account Book’
a stock list of various items which would have been found in the classrooms from Sudbourne School’s ‘Stock & Stores Account Book’
Here are some more gems from the #Sudbourne School’s ‘Stock & Stores Account Book’ - a stock list of P. T. Apparatus including balks & hoops, & of various items which would have been found in the classrooms. I had to look up a few of the items, such as Dusmo!
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Inside page of the Sudbourne School’s ‘Stock & Stores Account Book’.
Stock list in the Sudbourne School’s ‘Stock & Stores Account Book’.
Stock list in the Sudbourne School’s ‘Stock & Stores Account Book’.
One of my favourite finds from my recent Suffolk Archives trip was the #Sudbourne School’s ‘Stock & Stores Account Book’. It’s fascinating, as it lists items in use at the school 1940/41, & helped me with my #WW2 education-themed article on Sudbourne for Destinations
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If you have a UK #OnePlaceStudy and an interest in the historic environment of your Place & the wider area in which it is located, learn more about Historic Environment Records by reading Historic Environment Records: Signposts to the past and watching the video in the post below. #OnePlaceWednesday
If you are an Ancestry subscriber with a #OnePlaceStudy, and have access to Full Text Search (currently being rolled out), Jan has some tips for you in this thread! 👇🏻 #OnePlaceWednesday
I’m onto St Peter Port now - two couples, each Jean Carey with wife Marie, having lots of children baptised around the same time. Thankfully the PRs give the mother’s surname (Brock ✅ or Le Ray ❌), so I can tell them apart. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if all PRs were so helpful 🙏 #OnePlaceWednesday
Fabulous! May the #OnePlaceWednesday discoveries keep on coming!
Extract from Guernsey Parish Register 1811 baptism of twins. Translation from French: Emily, daughter of Rev’d Thomas Brock, Rector of this parish, and Marie Carey his wife, born 16 Mar 1811, was presented for baptism 12 Jul 1811 by Mr Jean Saumarez, Mrs Judith Brock his wife, and Miss Carterette Saumarez. Emma, daughter of Rev’d Thomas Brock and of Marie Carey his wife, born 16 Mar 1811, was presented for baptism on 12 Jul 1811 by Miss Rachel Carey, Rev’d Thomas Carey and Miss Marie Brock sister of the little girl. Bailiwick Of Guernsey, Parish Baptisms > St Pierre Du Bois, Anglican Baptisms 1824-1889 > AQ/1199/22
The St Pierre du Bois, Guernsey PRs just keep on giving! 🤩 Today’s discovery 1811 twins Emily and Emma! I’d always assumed “Emily/Emma” was just one person… but no, they were twins 👯♀️
Even better, their 8yr old sister was one of the godparents! Thrilled with a find like this✨
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Poster for the 45th West London Local History Conference. Features a picture of a grand-looking staircase in what appears to be a large store selling textiles. Text: Shopping is Never Done: West London streets down the decades. Saturday 11 April 2026. Questors Theatre: Down our High Street. David Shailes: Goddards. James Marshall: Feltham and Hounslow High Streets. Neil Robson: Arding and Hobbs. Carolynne Cotton: Bentalls of Kingston. Val Bott: Shopping in Georgian Brentford. A one-day conference at Duke Street Church, Duke Street, Richmond. Tickets, £15, on sale at www.ticketsource.co.uk/west-london-local-history-conference/ Conference sponsored by the local history societies for Acton, Barnes & Mortlake, Brentford & Chiswick, Fulham & Hammersmith, Richmond, Twickenham and Wandsworth, and the West Middlesex Family History Society.
ICYMI: Shopping is Never Done, a #LocalHistory conference focused on West London High Streets is on Saturday 11th April at Duke Street Church in Richmond. Tickets £15. Sure to be of interest to #OnePlaceStudies researchers! #OnePlaceWednesday
A somewhat chilly & breezy St. John's Square, Wakefield today with the daffodils bending over backwards.
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The third #WikiTree Challenge of 2026, for our member (and former Chair) Kirsty Gray, starts tomorrow! #OnePlaceWednesday
I’m off to The National Archives on Friday. I’ve got a pretty full research list, but happy to do photograph any documents for one-placers if I get time. Just let me have the document references ☺️
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#OnePlaceWednesday showcase: Texas, Maryland
Explore the lives & stories of residents in this community through collaborative genealogy research! 📍www.WikiTree.com/wiki/Space:Texas,_Maryla... #OnePlaceStudy #CollaborativeGenealogy
Destinations – March 2026. Image: Front cover of the March 2026 edition of Destinations. Text (list of featured article titles): Where to Start With Schools? Creating a Chronology. Cormont Road School. The Little Red Notebook. Barnsley Mechanics’ Institute in the First World War. The Swing Riots of 1830. From Rural Classroom to Battle Training Area. The 21st Birthday. Where Did They Go to School. Tips for Members. And more... One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.
Members! If you haven’t already done so, download the lastest issue of our #OnePlaceStudies journal Destinations from the Members’ Area of our website. With a focus on schools and educational establishments, and other subjects plus regular features, it makes for a great read! #OnePlaceWednesday
![Extract from Bailiwick Of Guernsey, Parish Baptisms > St Pierre Du Bois, Anglican Baptisms 1824-1889 > AQ/1199/22 > 1868: Elsie McLeod, daughter of the Rev’d Carey Brock MA, Rector of this Parish and Frances Elizabeth Georgina Baynes his wife, born 14 Nov 1866. Baptised 25 Dec 1866. Sponsors: Henry Walter Brock, Mrs Andrew Paxton Charles, and Miss Emily Louisa Stather [spelling?]. Baptised by her father Carey Brock MA Rector. He forgot to enter the baptism in 1866, so there’s a note in the margin “Omitted in 1866”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7hu2r45ogtcubx5xmw6cs4yo/bafkreiasmdlewbdqyqgv7uxcytvmquelzi5257mihi6ce4dvj4fqgeuhq4)
Extract from Bailiwick Of Guernsey, Parish Baptisms > St Pierre Du Bois, Anglican Baptisms 1824-1889 > AQ/1199/22 > 1868: Elsie McLeod, daughter of the Rev’d Carey Brock MA, Rector of this Parish and Frances Elizabeth Georgina Baynes his wife, born 14 Nov 1866. Baptised 25 Dec 1866. Sponsors: Henry Walter Brock, Mrs Andrew Paxton Charles, and Miss Emily Louisa Stather [spelling?]. Baptised by her father Carey Brock MA Rector. He forgot to enter the baptism in 1866, so there’s a note in the margin “Omitted in 1866”
My first #OnePlaceWednesday 👋 I had lovely find in the parish records of St Pierre du Bois, Guernsey yesterday: my 2nd great grandfather (the Rector!) forgot to record his youngest daughter’s 1866 baptism- then added a note in 1868 when he remembered. Nice reminder that ancestors were human too...
#OnePlaceWednesday. Image: Photo of a view across a small lake on a sunny day in late Winter / early Spring. Parts of leafless trees can be seen on either side of the foreground, framing the view along with reedbeds at the bottom of the image. More trees (singles and small areas of woodland) can be seen, along with sheep pasture, on the other side. The blue and partially cloudy sky above is reflected in the water of the lake, in the middle of which is a group of white birds (Gulls). One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.
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Just because it’s #oneplacewednesday and I usually miss it, here’s an introduction to my Place in Wales open.substack.com/pub/haverfor...
Dusk in Carey Bay 21/3/2026
As it's #OnePlaceWednesday in #CareyBay #Australia I'm adding former residents to my @oneplacestudies.bsky.social Study using early #electoralrolls on Ancestry #familyhistory #localhistory
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As our #OnePlaceStudies blogging and social media prompt this month is #OnePlaceClothing, here’s a #OnePlaceWednesday plug for @sarahmurden.bsky.social Sarah Murden’s latest All Things Georgian blog post, The fashion for Spring 1826 featuring Urling’s lace.
