Can’t see the Woods for the trees
Caroline Clarke, my paternal great, great, great grandmother, had presented me a problem for many years, but 2009 appears to have ended the mystery of who she was and where she came from. After...
View ArticleThe Workhouse
It’s unlikely that anyone would have wanted to go to the workhouse unless they’d lost all hope of finding support elsewhere.. but after two illegitimate children (Caroline and Edward Clarke), and an...
View ArticleThere’s something about Mary…
A few weeks ago I wrote about my Clarke/Bailey family at Hartismere Union Workhouse. In that posting, I mentioned that whilst I had located the Bailey/Clarke family group, the wife (my gtx4 grandmother...
View ArticleMy Top 5 Genealogy ‘to-dos’ for 2013
My top 5 genealogy things I hope to achieve in 2013 - a mixture of visits, writing and demolishing those research brick walls. Continue reading →
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