Welcome to my Family History Blog! Note NOT family tree .......... there's nothing more boring than a list of names and dates. I've been researching my own and other people's family histories for years and here are some short snippets I have come across in projects I have been involved in. I hope they are of interest, many thanks for checking them out!
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Stan's Travels during the War - here he is with his mates at the Vatican. He was in the Royal Engineers in Egypt, Syria and finally Italy - please see photo gallery for some more.
The old market off Yorkshire Street, Rochdale in 1902. Was Annie Clegg on this photograph? She could be ...
3 pages from the Holt Family Bible
The Holt Family Bible
10/02/2016 19:20
The Heywood Holts lived mainly in the Bridge Street/George Street area for over 50 years and Bertha Holt was my great-grandmother, who married Richard Ashton (son of the Richard Ashton who had been run over by his horse and cart). I used to own the family bible but unfortunately gave it away...
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St Luke's Old Church
21/02/2016 21:29
I'm not fond of poetry but I really like these verses from John Heywood's "St Luke's Old...
Ulpha and the Wordsworth Connection
20/02/2016 22:14
Geoff again and a family connection to yet another fabulous part of North West England, this time...
The Raw Family of Crack Pot Hall, Swaledale
16/02/2016 21:39
Yet another big house for Geoff's family (well, a couple of 100 years ago anyway!) Last...
The Darlingtons of Hopwood United Methodist Church
14/02/2016 18:39
I've already covered Tom Darlington's early days in another article but his name, and the names of...
The Bay Horse, Unsworth - Robert Stott & Family
13/02/2016 17:22
Never quite sure if this branch of the Stotts were actually related, I based doing the research on...
Thomas Edger (Hillbilly?) - The Ohio Railway Murder
10/02/2016 21:34
This could be a great story if I could only substantiate it! Lately, my cousin Sue told me a...
Annie Clegg - 19th Century Rochdale
09/02/2016 21:44
My grandma, Annie Clegg, was given away by her father, James Taylor Clegg, a Rochdale butcher, to...
The Gaskills of Birdfields, Ashworth Valley
09/02/2016 20:43
A few years ago I spent an afternoon up Ashworth Valley, north of Heywood, photographing the houses...
The Old Penny Pie Shop
09/02/2016 19:19
Lots of changes were made in the 1860s & 70s to Heywood town centre, beginning with the...
A Murderer in the Family
16/09/2013 20:15
This man looks a little like Bugsy Malone but he is actually Max Mayer Haslam, related through my...
