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I came across this lovely photograph of my gran, Edith Alice Diggory, at about 14 years of age, (possibly taken on the occasion of her...
Wendy Percival
Nov 22, 20192 min read
An exciting find!
I signed off last week's blog post (Mystery of George's WWI wound) lamenting the fact that I had no photograph of my great uncle, George...
Wendy Percival
Nov 15, 20191 min read
Mystery of George's #WW1 wound
A photograph of my great-uncle Tom Diggory, my gran's older brother, always stood proudly on my gran's mantelpiece. Tom had been wounded...
Wendy Percival
Nov 8, 20192 min read
Home Sweet Home
With the clocks going back an hour here in the UK and the winter ahead of us, it's that time when I think of evenings in front of a...
Wendy Percival
Nov 1, 20192 min read
Sad deaths and a new life
In the process of finding out more about my great-aunt and great-uncles's brief stay in the workhouse in 1886 (see posts, A Brush With...
Wendy Percival
Oct 25, 20193 min read
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
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
Oct 11, 20192 min read
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 28, 20192 min read
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 20, 20192 min read
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...
Wendy Percival
Sep 13, 20192 min read