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Wendy Percival
- Apr 8, 2022
- 3 min
The Murder Stone
By an exciting coincidence, during my trip to The Gower in Wales last week, I came across a murder stone. It was in the churchyard...
Wendy Percival
- Dec 10, 2021
- 3 min
The DeLacy-Staunton mystery solved!
In the mystery of Edward DeLacy-Staunton, the name on a plaque on the wall of East Worlington church, more tantalising clues have emerged...
Wendy Percival
- Dec 3, 2021
- 2 min
The DeLacy-Staunton Mystery unravels!
I left you hanging last time, about a development in this mystery concerning revelations from Devon Archives. If you read my blog post...
Wendy Percival
- Nov 26, 2021
- 2 min
The mystery of Mr DeLacy-Staunton
When I volunteered to help find information about an unknown WWII hero, I thought it would simply be a case of looking up a few things on...
Wendy Percival
- Jun 11, 2021
- 2 min
Surprise coincidences
Family history connections can take you by surprise sometimes, as I wrote about in a recent post, Shock Shared Ancestor. A couple of...
Wendy Percival
- Aug 21, 2020
- 2 min
On the Trail of a Mystery School
A comment in my late aunt's family history notes about my grandmother, Winifred Griffiths, (the little mite in the middle, pictured left)...
Wendy Percival
- Feb 29, 2020
- 1 min
Floods of dismay
It's been distressing to watch the news reports over these past couple of weeks concerning flooding in many areas of the UK, and...
Wendy Percival
- Aug 30, 2019
- 2 min
A Cornish conundrum
Last Sunday was my parents' wedding anniversary. Sadly, neither are alive to celebrate what would have been 64 years as husband and wife....
Wendy Percival
- May 3, 2019
- 2 min
Intrigue and inspiration
I've thoroughly enjoyed the recent BBC TV series, A House Through Time which tells the history of 5 Ravensworth Terrace in Newcastle...
Wendy Percival
- Apr 26, 2019
- 2 min
Death far from home
I wrote a recent post (see Mysteries of a Devon churchyard - a poignant inscription) about the death in 1895, of 30-year-old Luke...
Wendy Percival
- Apr 19, 2019
- 2 min
Death & disease in Poldark country
While I was holidaying in Cornwall recently, we visited the National Trust’s Levant Tin Mine - very Poldark! It was on this part of the...
Wendy Percival
- Mar 29, 2019
- 1 min
Mysteries of a #Devon churchyard - a poignant inscription
As you'll know if you've been following this blog recently, I've been curious about the stories behind the gravestones in the churchyard...
Wendy Percival
- Mar 22, 2019
- 2 min
Another churchyard tragedy
To follow the story of the sad death of 12 year old John Edworthy (see Churchyard mysteries - a tragic story) this week I discovered the...
Wendy Percival
- Mar 15, 2019
- 1 min
Churchyard mysteries - a tragic story
Poor John Edworthy died aged only 12 years old, in a horrific accident. In my blog post last week, Churchyard Mysteries, I wrote about my...