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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.
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 […]
MoreI get these bees in my bonnet. Horace Colgate, né Alfred Dodd, born in London… who was his father, who exactly was his mother? I knew her name was Emma Pither Dodd and that she married Thomas Colgate. Her birth place in the census was stated as Ascot in Berkshire but I just seemed to stumble blindly around the […]
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Lois Elsden 