Family Stories

Ships That Pass In The Night… Bill

Family Stories by LoisAugust 6, 2012September 13, 2018

Ships That Pass In The Night… Reg

Family Stories by LoisJuly 31, 2012September 13, 2018

Ships That Pass In The Night… The Legionnaire, Tall Fred and Howard

Family Stories by LoisJuly 30, 2012September 13, 2018

Ships That Pass In The Night… Johnnie, Steve and Freddie

Family Stories by LoisJuly 28, 2012September 13, 2018

Ships That Pass In The Night… Noel

Family Stories by LoisJuly 27, 2012September 13, 2018

Ships That Pass In The Night… Bob

Family Stories by LoisJuly 26, 2012September 13, 2018

Ships That Pass In The Night

Family Stories by LoisJuly 25, 2012September 13, 2018

David Hoy – marooned

Family Stories by LoisJuly 25, 2012September 10, 2018

Family Stories by LoisJuly 22, 2012January 11, 2025

Although we were not particularly well-off, our house was always open to my parents’ friends and acquaintances. My dad, Donald, was born and brought up in Cambridge and his parents lived at the Portland Arms Hotel, so he knew many, many people in the town. Donald had his youth interrupted by seven years of war, but when he […]

Family Stories by LoisJuly 21, 2012September 12, 2015

The diamond merchant and the musician

In a previous post I was on the trail of Emma Pither Dodd, trying to find not only her parents, but the father of her little boy, Alfred. I found an Emma Dodd working for a diamond merchant Max Meyer in 1891. I get fascinated by names (I came across a Carling Curling a little while ago) and I […]