I visited my Mum yesterday and we were reminiscing about shops in Gawler St, Mount Barker, South Australia near where I grew up. Mum mentioned something about sewing and I had an instant flashback to walking past an open door in Gawler St as a child and hearing the loud clattering of many sewing machines … [Read more…]
William Harding Birchall sits on a distant branch of my family tree. We aren’t blood relatives however when one of his descendants contacted me with a question my interest was piqued. The Birchalls were Quakers and these are the first Quaker records I have come across in my research. This marriage record is very hard … [Read more…]
I have been inspired by Jill aka GeniAus and Alex at Family Tree Frog to write about what genealogy related things I’ve been up to. Early in the month I started a new 6 generation pedigree tree for a customer. These are some of the things I have found out so far: one ancestor had … [Read more…]
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…]