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"A Soldier's Yesterdays", Memoirs of Brigadier G S Brunskill
23/08/2013 13:33
Brigadier George Stephen Brunskill was Geoff's 2nd cousin 3 times removed - OK OK, it sounds distant, but it's closer than you think .........
(Held at the Imperial War Museum)
Chapter 1 (17 pp). George Stephen Brunskill entered the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1910 as the King's Indian...
Trip to find The Gwoat, Penruddock
23/08/2013 12:47
Last weekend, myself and Geoff finally made the trip up to Cumbria hoping to find the farmhouse his dad was born in 100 years ago this year. Years ago, Geoff found an old watercolour in his house named "The Gwoat, Penruddock" and after starting researching his family...
Singular Case of Drowning - David Walker, dodgy father-in-law
23/08/2013 12:47
Hmm, yes .......... well. Someone I'd really like to know more about, my great-great-grandmother, Mary Walker (nee Davenport) was married to David Walker's son Samuel, but he died quite young and left her with 4 children living in a house in Cheetham Street, Heywood, back to back with her...
Thomas Darlington of Heywood, my kind of man
23/08/2013 12:46
Thomas Darlington was born in Smith Court, Heywood in 1838 to John and Harriet Darlington who had moved from Ardwick, Manchester. The map below shows Smith Court and the photograph below (taken in the mid 1970s - show your ages, who is that??) shows where Smith Court used to be, back to...
The Turners of Tearnside Hall and Wennington
23/08/2013 12:45
Our first mention of Geoff's Taylor ancestors is with William and John Taylor, two farmers living at the amazing Tearnside Hall just outside Kirkby Lonsdale. They were there in the 1841 Census along with a couple of servants, and later John Taylor married the servant girl 20...
First blog
21/08/2013 13:58
Our new blog has been launched today. Stay focused on it and we will try to keep you informed. You can read new posts on this blog via the RSS feed.
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