The Family Connections Blog is one year old today and I thought it might be a good time to review some of the years postings.
Herbert Golledge’s Notebook
Between 1898 and 1942 Herbert Golledge recorded the events which occurred around the villages of Shoscombe and Single Hill in the parish of Wellow, Somerset, England. This transcript is the most read post, being consulted by someone on a daily basis.
Transatlantic Travellers
Not far behind Herbert Golledge’s Notebook is my own original work about the Transatlatic crossings of the descendants of John & Grace Swift and other residents of the Somerset hamlets of Single Hill and Shoscombe.
Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch (1856-1940)
Of the family biographical sketches that drew the most readers was that of the american womans rights campaigner, Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch, who was married to William Blatch, my 7th cousin three times removed.
Alfred Whitaker (1799-1852)
One of the main reasons for this blog is to make contact with other researchers and uncover new information about an ancestor. The comments section of this article certainly achieved that aim. The original article is now a reference for the on-line encyclopedia, Wikipedia,
Here’s hoping that the next twelve months brings more.
Brian
Rosemary Coles said,
March 1, 2010 at 4:11 am
Dear Brian
First I must congratulate you on your website. Brilliant! My husband,Clive is a grandson of Oliver Coles, great grandson of Benjamin Coles and g.g. grandson of Grace Swift.
Oliver went to America to work in the Kentucky Coal fields. He sailed with a friend from Liverpool on the ‘Celtic’ to arrive in New York on the 30th July 1905.They were met by Barry Coles but he returned six months later. Oliver was living in Upper Boat, Glamorgan with his young wife Mary Ellen and baby son, Allan. Was there no work in Britain for so many of them of them to leave or were they encouraged by others? What was life like in Somerset at that time?
My daughter is doing a biography on Oliver Coles and we are trying to build a picture of that period. We have quite a few photos of the family, but don’t know who they are.
Best Wishes
Rosemary Coles.