Tall Tales from the Trees

I have inherited books from my late father and my late uncle, and now have two copies of several volumes written by or about the family...

I am struck by how many of these articles are bookish. The subjects have in many cases written books, or been the subject of books, and...

My great great uncle Frederick ran Reyner’s Ltd in Ashton under Lyne, at first with his brother Joseph and then after Joseph’s death i...

My great grandmother Jane Reyner came from one of the oldest mill-owning families in the Lancashire cottonmill town of Ashton Under Lyne...

When we were growing up, the only family “heritage” of which my father spoke was the line of his great grandmother, the staunch non-conformi...

Call me romantic or call me nosey, I often find myself wondering how my ancestral couples met – how any two strands of my family tree bumped...