Tall Tales from the Trees

I am descended in one branch from a long line of Tipperary Chadwicks who first came to Ireland from England in the 17 th century. Chadwi...

Eyre Massey my Irish 6x great uncle fought on the wrong side, from my Scottish point of view, at the Battle of Culloden, the last battle fou...

Culloden is a name that resonates like some doom-laden infinite gong throughout Scotland. It still sounds in Scottish heads, long after the ...

I was lucky enough to visit Toronto on a couple of occasions in the 1980s when I was the stage manager for a Scottish theatre company. On b...

I have precious little to brag about in my family tree when it comes to sporting achievement. But, clutching at straws, I can claim a great...

I’m constantly delighted by how much information is now available online for historical research. There are those who claim that the inter...

Russell Manners was a brother-in-law of my cartoonist cousin Charles de Noé . Although a great many of my ancestors made their mark, good or...

It’s my 100 th post here! I try to be eclectic in my choices of subjects – family name, period, occupation, home – and not to be too jud...

I don’t know how I am related to Charles de Noé, only that I must be! His mother Frances Caroline Halliday is, somehow, at the heart of the ...

It doesn’t take long to build up a detailed picture of the prominent Tipperary families of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. I have d...