Horace Walter Colgate

Family connection

Family Stories by LoisJanuary 25, 2015September 10, 2018

Family Stories by LoisJune 14, 2014February 2, 2019

I wrote yesterday about visiting the battlefields of World War One, and our wish to find the memorial to my husband’s relative, Horace Colgate. Here is a post I have previously published, showing the village where Horace, and my husband both lived as children, although some sixty years separated their boyhoods. Horace Colgate died nearly a […]

From Surrey to some foreign field

Family Stories by LoisJune 13, 2014September 10, 2018

Family Stories by LoisJuly 21, 2012September 10, 2018

Searching for Emma…

I 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 […]