Family History 6/7

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Feel free to scroll down the posts below and discover the intriguing - sometimes shocking - discoveries I've made as I've explored my family history.

I hope you enjoy reading them!

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 18, 20192 min read

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

Oct 11, 20192 min read

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 28, 20192 min read

Last week my copy of the Family History Record Book devised by professional genealogist, Sheridan Parsons, arrived and I spent the...

Wendy Percival

Sep 20, 20192 min read

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...

Wendy Percival

Sep 13, 20192 min read