Tall Tales from the Trees

  It’s a year exactly since I started writing this blog, so I thought I’d celebrate with a celebration. My great great uncle William Pilk...

John Tough was my great grandfather. Until recently, when I found some thorough work posted by someone else on the internet which pushed the...

Since writing this article I have discovered the perfectly sensible reason for Tudor being a family name - a great aunt's maiden name w...

Charles Verral was a brother of the 3x great grandfather of my great aunt Helen Verrall. What does that make him in relation to me? Remote,...

My 4x great grandmother Rebecca Brodie “had not the gift of large resources,” her son William Brodie Gurney observed, “but my mother knew h...

Amongst the hundred or so pieces of family and business correspondence belonging to my 3x great uncle Charles, which were passed to me by...

Emma Gurney, my great great grandmother, was the daughter of a Baptist passionate about education. The work of her father William Brodie Gu...

My distant cousin George Verrall changed his name to George Vernon when he became an actor. “Mr Vernon,” recalls Henry Dickinson Stone i...

George Verrall (1800-1830) is a cousin so distant that it’s hardly worth mentioning the fact. But although he died young he packed a lot ...

Stephen Salter is my 6x great grandfather and oldest identifiable Salter ancestor. He or his father brought the family from Great Missend...