Family Stories

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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