Saturday, 28 August 2010

HENRY VERRALL (1713-1794) AND THE SEEDS OF STARBUCKS

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The Verralls of Lewes in Sussex are a respectable old family. In time they became doctors and solicitors, but they began (at least so fa...
Saturday, 21 August 2010

DEBORAH CASTLE (1816-1902) AND THE SWEDISH NIGHTINGALE

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What better way to celebrate my fiftieth post on this blog than with a song! Deborah Castle was my 3x great aunt. Her brother Charles w...
Saturday, 14 August 2010

SIR JOHN BOWRING (1792-1872) AND BRITAIN’S FIRST DECIMAL COIN

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I wish I had some record of the reaction of Deborah Castle’s family, her brothers and sisters, to her marriage at the age of 44 to Sir John...
Saturday, 7 August 2010

WILLIAM HENRY CASTLE (1810-1865) AND THE TREATMENT OF HIS SPINE

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Doctor Thomas Baynton’s report: “Master Wm. Castle, son of Thomas Castle, esq. of Portlandsquare, Bristol, when about a year old, was ob...
Saturday, 31 July 2010

JOHN THOMAS ADOLPHUS COOPER (1836-1897) AND HIS MANY TURKISH GONGS

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It remains a family mystery why Adolphe Cooper, son of a prosperous Irish gentleman farmer should take a job laying submarine telegraph c...
Saturday, 24 July 2010

RICHARD FRANK SALTER (1921-1944) AND THE HELL SHIP

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I wrote a while back about David Castle who died at Tobruk during the Second World War. He grew up with his cousin Dick, who also served...
Saturday, 17 July 2010

MARGARET DE GAUDRION MERRIFIELD VERRALL (1857-1916) AND THE COMMON CAUSE OF HUMANITY

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The one thing that everyone knows about my great great aunt Margaret (if they’ve heard of her at all) is that she received the psychic cr...
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Saturday, 10 July 2010

JOHN SADLEIR (c1510-aft1544) AND THE SIEGE OF BOULOGNE

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This is about as far back as I go – John Sadleir was my 11x great grandfather, and understandably details of his life are a bit sketchy. I...
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