October 31, 2007 at 6:43 am (Genealogy)
It seems that using DNA to trace your ancestors is not only for humans. Genetic work in Dorset has found that the UK’s population of Greater Horseshoe bats originated from West Asia around 40,000-60,000 years ago.
Read the full stoy in the Dorset Echo
October 30, 2007 at 4:00 am (Genealogy, Location)
Tags: Nunney
The following are the inferences deducible from the observed facts of this outbreak by Dr. Ballard, who has made a report on the subject
October 29, 2007 at 4:00 am (Biography, Genealogy)
This obituary for William Johnson Smith M.D. founder of the Weymouth Sanatorium and a founder member of British Gynecological Society was published in May 27, 1885 edition of The British Gynecological Journal.
October 28, 2007 at 4:00 am (Biography, Genealogy)
Tags: Dismer, Dismore, Eins, Foyle, Freeman, Kinge, Lawrence, Mortymer, Noyse, Slower, Smith, Spencer, Waterman, Whitaker
Inquisition taken at Marlborough, 4th April, 2 Charles I [1626], before John Foyle, esquire, escheator, after the death of Geoffery Whitaker, gentleman, by the oath of Richard Smith, gentleman, John Spencer, gentleman, George Mortymer, gentleman, Bartholomew Smith, gentleman, Alexander Dismer, Henry Smith, John Noyse, Thomas Smith, John Waterman, Edward Dismore, Thomas Slower, Thomas Eins, Thomas Freeman, Thomas Kinge, and John Lawrence, who say that
October 27, 2007 at 4:00 am (Biography, Genealogy)
Tags: Keddle, Knight, Maskew, Stordy
Thomas Ratsey Maskew was born at Keyhaven, Milford, Hampshire, England on September 7, 1818 the third of five sons to Thomas Maskew and Elizabeth Ratsey. Educated at Sherborne, Dorset, he was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge on July 5, 1837 and transferred to Sidney College, Cambridge on May 11, 1840, where he graduated in 1842.
October 26, 2007 at 5:44 am (Genealogy)
The Prime Minister announced on 25 October that he has commissioned a review of when historical records are transferred to The National Archives and largely opened to public access. For more information see the National Archives Press Release.
October 25, 2007 at 4:00 am (Biography, Genealogy)
Tags: Coombs, Dowland, Wilde
Whitehall, July 31, 1848.
The Right Honourable Sir Thomas Wilde, Knt. Lord Chief Justice of Her Majesty’s Court of Common Pleas at Westminster, has appointed Thomas Coombs the younger, of Dorchester, in the county of Dorset, Gent. to be one of the Perpetual Commissioners for taking the acknowledgments of deeds to be executed by married women, under the Act passed for the abolition of fines and recoveries and for the substitution of more simple modes of assurance, in and for the county of Dorset.
October 24, 2007 at 4:00 am (Genealogy, Location)
Tags: Hassage, Shoscombe, Single Hill, Stony Littleton, Twinnet, Wellow, White Oxmead, Woodborough
This description of Wellow, Somerset in 1891 was published in Somersetshire, part of the County Topograpy series edited by E.R. Kelly.
October 22, 2007 at 4:00 am (Genealogy, Location)
Tags: Bellerica, Drewley, Gaer Hill, Higher Holt, Lower Holt, Rough Stubbs, Witham Friary
This description of Witham Friary, Somerset in 1891 was published in Somersetshire, part of the County Topographies series edited by E.R. Kelly.
