Breaking Down Brickwalls
John EAYRS (1744-1812) As part of the lockdown, I have been sorting through all those scraps of paper. One piece of paper was an extract of possible leads for one of my brickwalls. So rather than keeping a… Read More
Genealogy Research & DNA Analysis
John EAYRS (1744-1812) As part of the lockdown, I have been sorting through all those scraps of paper. One piece of paper was an extract of possible leads for one of my brickwalls. So rather than keeping a… Read More
Muriel Nellie BRAYBROOK was my maternal grandmother. She was born on 17 January 1915 at 37, Milton Road, Old Fletton, County of Soke of Peterborough1. Her parents were John George BRAYBROOK and Emma Elizabeth GARFOOT. Her father died… Read More
2018 Week 43 Although there are lots of missing weeks, I am going to try to gradually fill them out. In addition, I am going to start a parallel blog that will be more my chance to write… Read More
2018 Week 19 This week’s #52ancestors theme is ‘Mother’s Day’ as the USA and Canada celebrate it this weekend. So I am going to write about an amazing mother who raised a family of nine children by herself;… Read More
2018 Week 5 It’s Week 5 of #52ancestors and the theme this week is ‘In the Census’. As a mathematician, I enjoy statistics so am going to give a couple of statistics behind my family in the census…. Read More
2018 Week 4 It’s Week 4 of #52Ancestors and this week’s theme is ‘Invite to Dinner’. I’m not sure if this was an invite or if my great-great grandfather applied to attend but this event came to mind… Read More
2018 Week 2 The theme this week (which is now last week) is ‘Favourite Photo’. The photo below is one of my favourite family history photos – kindly copied from the original held by my mum’s cousin Ba…. Read More