Always read every bit of information in a Parish Register. You never know what you will find. Here I take you through a brief history of Parish Registers before showing you how a little side-note demolished my brick wall. Parish Registers Before civil registration started in 1837, life events of our ancestors were recorded in
I was born on 4th May, usually a spring like day, sometimes wintery and associated with lambs and other baby animals. But since George Lucas launched the Star Wars movies in the 1970s it is now more affectionately known as ‘Star Wars day’; with ‘May the Fourth be with you’ being a common birthday greeting.
As I was growing up, I first saw a Butler in the 1970s TV Series Upstairs Downstairs with Gordon Jackson as the dour Scottish Butler Hudson. Much later in Downton Abbey we saw the hardnosed but soft centred Mr Carson played by the wonderful Jim Carter. Research While undertaking research for clients I have come
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