Tall Tales from the Trees

With the help of someone who got in touch via this blog I recently found the identity of my 5x great grandfather, John Davis of Little Mis...

I’ve written here before about my cousin John Cooper-Chadwick’s exploits in the imperial colonization of southern Africa . In between his u...

In all my family tree research I am constantly in debt to the earlier and more thorough research of others. Recent contact with a cousin in ...

I’ve been exploring the noble Scottish Hepburn pedigree lately – far more than I needed to really, but that’s genealogy for you! My genui...

My great aunt Helen’s ancestors, the Verrall family from Lewes in Sussex , were a prominent lot, at the heart of Lewes life for many generat...

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...

Louisa Salter, a first cousin of my great grandfather’s, spent her life surrounded by new editions of the Bible, or rather by men driven to ...

Michael Castle, my 4x great uncle, was part of a powerful merchant family in 18 th century Bristol. He was a whisky distiller in partnersh...

Mary Castle, a first cousin of my great grandfather, got married in 1865, the same year her new husband Edmund Daubeny began a living as re...

Most of my paternal ancestors are elsewhere – if not actually overseas, then certainly in corners of the United Kingdom not immediately ac...