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Family Stories
All families have stories; some stories are almost myths… did my ancestors really come from Sweden? Were they really river pilots or pirates operating out of the east coast port of King’s Lynn? Some family stories are true, although some facts may be hidden; my great-grandparents loved each other across a religious divide, but where and how did they meet? Some family stories are only revealed through census records and some genealogical detective work. I want to tell the stories of my family, and others who otherwise might be lost in the past.
My piggy
There is something just so appealing about pigs; maybe it is their knowing intelligent eyes, maybe it’s their funny little curly mouths which so often look like s smile, whatever it is I find them irresistible and if ever we found ourselves in a position to have a couple, I would. I love the variety that there are in pig world, golden pigs, […]
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The missing link? Almost!
My grandfather’s family had lived for many generations on the south coast of England, settling eventually in Littlehampton in Sussex where some cousins still live even today. My grandfather’s brother, Wilfred Henry, married a young woman Edith May Kinch, who had been born and brought up in Portsmouth where my husband’s family, the Sparshotts come from. Edith’s father Edwin was a shipwright working […]
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Lois Elsden 