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Wendy Percival
- Oct 18, 2019
- 2 min
Escape from the workhouse
It must have been a traumatic experience for my great uncles and great aunt to be admitted to the workhouse in 1886, after their father...
Wendy Percival
- Oct 11, 2019
- 2 min
A brush with the workhouse
I discovered last week that two of my great-uncles, Allen and Ernest, and their sister Maud, spent a brief time in the workhouse in 1886....
Wendy Percival
- Sep 28, 2019
- 2 min
Off for a jolly!
There was a report in the media this week about the aim to get people in towns and cities to visit the coast and countryside, both to...
Wendy Percival
- Sep 20, 2019
- 2 min
My #familyhistory autumn pledge!
Last week my copy of the Family History Record Book devised by professional genealogist, Sheridan Parsons, arrived and I spent the...
Wendy Percival
- Sep 13, 2019
- 2 min
Forgotten #WWI heroes
Last week we went to see the stage production of Michael Morpurgo's War Horse at The New Theatre, Oxford. The story of War Horse tells of...