Month: September 2023
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Francis (nee Wilcox)
This week I describe some of the details of the records that I know of and have found regarding the three Wilcox siblings who left London for Wales. Two of them left under circumstances that cannot be proved and there is only one anecdotal story relating to it. The third joined them after her parents…
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Aberdeenshire to Ayrshire
After writing my short account of the book Akenfield last week it got me thinking about the occupations of many of my and my wife’s ancestors. Agricultural Labourer was a common occupation listed against many of our family members in the early Census returns. Whether it was in Sussex, Surrey, Wigtownshire and Aberdeenshire, working on…
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Akenfield
I have been reading this book after I read the author’s obituary earlier in the year. Ronald Blythe lived in Suffolk and created this oral history of the village that he lived close to. He kept the name of the village anonymous and the name Akenfield is invented from possibly two other village names. He…
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Searching for Aunt Mabel
A short posting this week about a Great Aunt who if I met I cannot remember because I would have been very young. My Father, Bill Carver, had two aunts on his Mother’s side. It was Mabel’s absence in the 1901 Census return when the Spillett’s came to Oxted that led me on a short…