I have been researching and building my family tree for about 25 years. In that time I have have discovered that most of my blood (and first generation married) relatives were generally regular working and lower class folk. Some of them aspired to really get on in life, many remained […]
Yearly Archives: 2013
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My three times great grandmother really did not have much of an existence although she survived into her sixties. She spent all her life, like so many Victorian women at the bottom of the social and economic scale, cleaning other people’s houses and clothes. In death her body was used […]
In the course of doing historic research I generally find I can usually detach myself even from the most appalling events and situations frequently reported over the centuries. It’s only when a direct blood relative suddenly appears in the Victorian news that I get a feeling of genuine sadness. This […]
My Waugh family were based on the Somerset/Gloucestershire borders during the 1700 – 1900′s. John Waugh Snr my 5x great grand father, (born about 1750. Had a son also called John Waugh, my 4x great grandfather, (1771-1802) (his family tree and data here). John Jnr had a son, Robert Waugh […]