September 21, 2007 at 6:33 pm (Genealogy)
Tags: Genealogy
From the Brisbane Times
One of the great advantages of the family history boom is that most of us have been obliged to give up what Freud called the “family romance” – the belief that we are related, a couple of generations back, to people richer, grander or cleverer than boring old us.
September 21, 2007 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Biography, Genealogy, Perowne, Woolrych
John James Stewart Perowne was born on March 13, 1823 at Burdwan, Bengal the eldest son of the Reverend John Perowne, a missionary with the Church Missionary Society and his wife Eliza, a teacher in the missionary school.
September 20, 2007 at 4:00 am (Genealogy, Location)
Tags: Dorset, Shaftesbury
A Description of the town of Shaftesbury, Dorset, England as described by Samuel Lewis in A Topographical Dictionary of England, Published in London in 1831.
September 19, 2007 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Biography, Genealogy, Oldnall-Russell, Perowne, Woolrych
Arthur William Thomson Perowne was born on Jun 13, 1867 the fourth son of the Right Reverend John James Stewart Perowne who was at that time Vice-Principal of St David’s College, Lampeter, Wales and his wife Anna Maria Woolrych.
September 18, 2007 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Dorset, Genealogy, History, Location, Portland
A Description of the Portland, Dorset, England as described by Samuel Lewis in A Topographical Dictionary of England, Published in London in 1831.
September 17, 2007 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Genealogy
The Book of Common Prayer (1662) of the Church of England refers to the clergy as bishops and curates in the text of prayer of intercession for Holy Communion. It uses the word ‘curate’ in its original sense to refer to all clergy entrusted with a cure of souls. It is only in recent years that in the Anglican Church it has come to mean an assistant priest or deacon.
September 16, 2007 at 9:47 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Genealogy, Humour, Video
From the folks at Genealogy Gems, a documentary spoof (a la Ken Burns) chronicling the immigration of the fictitious “Sockish” people (aka Sock Puppets). Genealogists & Historians alike sit back and enjoy a chuckle at our favorite pastime.
September 16, 2007 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Dorset, Genealogy, History, Location, Poole
A Description of the town of Poole, Dorset, England as described by Samuel Lewis in A Topographical Dictionary of England, Published in London in 1831.
September 15, 2007 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Genealogy, Sydenham, Wynford Eagle
The Sydenham family had owned and lived on the estate at Wynford Eagle near Maiden Newton, Dorset for well over 100 years by the time William Sydenham married Mary Jeffery, the daughter of John Jeffery of Catherston in 1611. William himself, having inherited the estate at about the age of fourteen on his grandfathers death in 1607, his own father having died before he was one year old. In this quiet rural backwater William and Mary were to have ten children, and must have taken great pride in their five sons who reached manhood.
September 14, 2007 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Dorset, Genealogy, History, Location, Lyme Regis
A Description of the town of Lyme Regis, Dorset, England as described by Samuel Lewis in A Topographical Dictionary of England, Published in London in 1831. Read the rest of this entry »
