Tall Tales from the Trees

Walter S Masterman, whose grandfather Thomas Gurney was my great great grandmother’s brother, is best known as a prolific author of the 1920...

A dahabeeah on the Nile at Cairo A news item from the Suez Mail, relayed in New Zealand’s Southland Times on 25 th February 1...

Austin Cooper, Austin the Settler , my 8x great grandfather who came to Ireland in 1661, laid out the parkland of Blessington House for the ...

I’ve been sifting through another bundle of letters from the writing desk of my 3x great uncle Charles Castle. This lot are from his niece M...

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...