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Sarah Welch was Ari’s 5x great-grandmother. She was born in Corfe Castle in 1817, the seventh child of a tailor, Henry Welch, and his...

Elizabeth Colley was a spinster when she married the widower Francis Poole on the 18th of September, 1770, in Oddingley, Worcestershire....

As noted in the blog post for Mary Kitchen Pearson, shortly before her son Henry was born in 1842, a tin plate worker named Henry Walker...

Elizabeth Stapleton was Ari’s 3x great-grandmother. She came from Harringworth in Northamptonshire, where she was baptised on 22 January...

Rebecca White was Ari’s 6x great-grandmother. On 13 February 1775 she married William Tottershall or Tortoiseshell in Tisbury, Wiltshire....

John Kent was Ari’s 6x great-grandfather, born in Kirk Langley, Derbyshire, in 1781. His parents were James Kent and Elizabeth Blood, and...

Isaac Spencer was Ari’s 7x great-grandfather. He lived in Middleton by Wirksworth, Derbyshire, and was born in 1740. His parents were...

Sarah Andrews was Ari’s 6x great-grandmother. She was born in Pershore, Worcestershire, in about 1771, daughter of Thomas Andrews and...

Mary Chapman was Ari’s 5x great-grandmother. She came from Pinchbeck in Lincolnshire, where she was baptised on 20 July 1760. Her parents...

Timmerman zittend op een schaafbank in zijn werkplaats by Jacob Taanman. 1861 http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.2941...

John Sheldon was Ari’s 6x great-grandfather. He came from the hamlet of Slaley in Bonsall, Derbyshire. He was born in 1796, the oldest...

Elizabeth Reynolds was Ari’s 5x great grandmother. She was born in about 1815 in Broughton Hackett, Worcestershire. Her baptism took...

I was very happy to discover that one of Ari’s ancestors was a drover. Sheet from a drawing book, cattle and sheep driven over a bridge...

Ann West was Ari’s 6x great-grandmother. She was born in Witchampton, Dorset, in 1759, the oldest child of Richard West and Mary Foyle....

Six men are working with combs, irons and brushes as they make hats of various descriptions, some tools of their trade are hanging on the...

Susannah Whiteley was Ari’s 6x great-grandmother, born in about 1759 in Ridlington, Rutland. The record of her marriage (to Francis...

Elizabeth Ann Murfin was Ari’s 3x great-grandmother. She was the first child of John Murfin and Mary Ford, born on 22 September 1877 in...

Back in 2017, I wrote about my grandfather Louis, and the first part of his story went up to 1919, when he was nineteen. Since then, I...

Mary Henrietta Smith was one of Ari’s 5x great-grandmothers. She was born in 1811, the daughter of Thomas Smith and Jane Day. The family...

Frances was Ari’s 6x great-grandmother. She was born in 1772 in Worcestershire, and married John Amphlett in about 1793. When I first...