Instant Cousins

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  • Writing letters, part two

    My mother’s letters were always quite short. Notes mostly, about her week, who she had met or visited. In October 2000 she was very busy with the British Legion annual Poppy Appeal. She had been a member of the Women’s Branch of the British Legion since the 1950’s when my father had joined the Legion.…

  • Letter writing, part one

    Now, in 2025, the number of letters being written are very few. In Denmark a decision has been made to stop collecting and delivering letters because the cost is now so prohibitive and there has been a 90% drop in the us of letter delivery. Given the annual and sometimes sharp increases in postage in…

  • John and Jennie

    I never knew them. My mother never talked about them. My grandmother never mentioned them. There are only two photographs that I have in hand that can give me an image of one of them. They had no children as far as I know. I knew where one of them was born for certain and…

  • The Welsh Tabernacle in Kings Cross

    This week I am returning to my research on Great Uncle John Wilcox, and particularly his wife Jennie. I have described my earlier research in a post last month. Jennie, which was her familiar name, is a significant person in this story, mainly because I am struggling to find any records that relate to her…

  • A Short Thread to a Longer Tale

    Just twelve months ago I wrote a long post about my great uncle Herbert Wilcox. He was the eldest of the Wilcox siblings, born in 1874 in Notting Hill. His career was with the railways, and he lived in flats like the Peabody Trust style and type of accommodation in London, designed and developed as…

  • The Dairy Woman from Dyfed

    This is a continuation of my last post from two weeks ago entitled the Welsh Dairy in Clerkenwell. It was further research into the life of John Richard Howard Wilcox. My research that week came to a stop because I couldn’t find the sort of records that I rely on to confirm and triangulate certain…

  • The Welsh Dairy in Clerkenwell

    John Richard Howard Wilcox was baptised on 25 October 1893. There is a note in the Baptism register that shows John was born on 31 August 1893. That is disputed in John’s death registration and also in his 1939 Register entry. In those latter registers, John’s date of birth was 29 August 1893. There are…

  • The Furnells of Kentish Town

    This is a poor copy of a portrait of my great grandparents, Cornelius and Susan Walker. A scan of a photocopy of a photo. The photocopy was made by my late sister, Janet Walsham, and I don’t know where the original photo is or who is looking after it. They spent their married life in…

  • 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.