Instant Cousins

Month: May 2024

  • Bill Carver

    George William Eustace Henry Carver was my father. He always signed his name G.H. Carver, but everyone called him Bill. Unless my mother was admonishing him for something and then she called him William. Baptism entry in the Oxted Parish Church register for W.G.E.H Carver, Bill Carver, living in School Lane, his father was a…

  • Grace, before marriage.

    This week I am concentrating on The 1911 Census return for a house in Acton, London. In 1911, Grace Walker, my grandmother, before she married William Wilcox, had moved to London from Offord D’Arcy in Huntingdonshire, to lives with a cousin. The address is 39, Mill Hill Road, Acton. It is a large house, three…

  • Whoops.

    I have missed my posting target this week and normal transmission will continue next week with an interesting story behind the 1911 Census return for an address in Acton, London, where my grandmother was living at the age of 20 before she met her husband, William Wilcox.