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Wendy Percival
- Jul 10, 2018
- 1 min
Bride equality, 19th century style
I was researching the Percival side of the family the other day and noticed that on the 1850 marriage record of Eliza Willsher and...
Wendy Percival
- Jul 4, 2018
- 2 min
#WW2 bomb nightmare - my aunt's story
You may recall that on this blog recently I wrote the story of my mum Pat's terrifying experience of having a WW2 incendiary bomb drop at...
Wendy Percival
- Jun 20, 2018
- 2 min
The Whitechapel Murders - a family connection!
I knew my ancestor, Ernest Ellisdon, had served in the Metropolitan police force as a constable but it wasn't until yesterday - the...
Wendy Percival
- Jun 8, 2018
- 2 min
Terror of a WW2 bomb - was Jack to blame?
As children we loved to hear our mum tell her childhood story of the night she was almost killed and our gran's bravery in saving her....
Wendy Percival
- May 24, 2018
- 1 min
Poor old George
I'd always known the story of my great uncle Tom, (Thomas Diggory) and the disabling leg wound he'd received during WW1, in March 1917....