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Wendy Percival
Feb 21, 20202 min
Banking the old fashioned way
I came across my dad's old bank book the other day. It was a Midland Bank savings account and he’d opened it with the sum of 2 shillings...
Wendy Percival
Feb 14, 20202 min
Mystery wedding and jaunty hats
Happy Valentine's Day! A great excuse for browsing the family photograph albums for wedding photos. The style of weddings have changed...
Wendy Percival
Feb 7, 20202 min
Visiting Esme Quentin Country
Sometimes it's good to get away from the keyboard for some inspiration and that's exactly what I did this week. Wandering around the...
Wendy Percival
Jan 31, 20202 min
Travels into the attic
With the UK leaving the EU today, it was rather a coincidence to discover a bundle of my dad’s old British blue passports this week while...
Wendy Percival
Jan 24, 20202 min
The gruesome truth
Shortly after 1871, my great-great grandmother, Emma Shelley, vanished. Not literally, obviously. But I couldn’t find her anywhere. She’d...
Wendy Percival
Jan 17, 20203 min
Murder trial witness
As I mentioned in last week’s blog post, I discovered, while browsing the British Newspaper Archives, that, Henry Viner, an ancestor of...
Wendy Percival
Jan 10, 20202 min
The joy of steam
Doesn’t everybody loves a model steam railway? (And if you are a fan, there's a treat in store at the end of the post). My husband‘s been...
Wendy Percival
Dec 20, 20192 min
#WWI Christmas
I'm lucky to have amongst my family treasures four beautiful embroidered postcards, known as "WWI silks" sent from the front during the...
Wendy Percival
Dec 13, 20192 min
It's that time of year again. Oh no it isn't, oh yes it is!
I have a pantomime dame amongst my ancestors! My maternal grandfather Herbert Colley (I never met him, as he died when my mum was only...
Wendy Percival
Nov 29, 20192 min
#FamilyHistory does transport
It was a transport theme on this week's #ancestryhour. Followers posted pictures of their ancestors beside an eclectic selection of...