The Pentrich Revolution Jeremiah Brandreth, William Turner and Isaac Ludlam were considered the revolution ring leaders and labelled the Pentrich Three. With over 500 men they set out to march on London to petition the King to better workers’ rights. Jeremiah Brandreth, or the `Nottingham Captain’, was to actually lead the rebellion. Despite some rather … [Read more…]
I’ve been doing some more research into James’ life and rather than do a whole new blog post with links to this one I thought it would be easier to understand if I put the updates in a different coloured font here. James Wigley is my 4x great grandfather. There are some family stories about James … [Read more…]
I’ve been thinking for a long time about what things I can do with a .gedcom file. A GEDCOM is a plain text file, which means you can read it in a text editor as well as being able to search it and extract data from it for statistical and other purposes. That is how … [Read more…]
Update: Since writing this blog post back in June 2012 I have since found out that my maternal Auntie’s husband is descended from William Thomas Oke who was at William Chapman’s funeral, they may have even been friends. If anyone else has any information to add please leave a comment here or send me a … [Read more…]
Over the weekend I visited Mount Barker cemetery and did some filming on my phone and took some photos. Below is the first video I’ve made from that filming and there will be more to come. Here is a bit more information about John Dunn. This video by Welcome To Mt Barker has more photos … [Read more…]
I was going through a box of memorabilia tonight when I came across my St John Ambulance cadet certificates and badges. I think I was missing a couple of service stripes for my years as a cadet. I remember doing the drill and training but not so much the exams. I loved the events that … [Read more…]