Over 5,000 women joined The Women’s Royal Naval Service during World War One, popularly known as the “Wrens”. These records are now available online for the first time from The National Archives.
Was your great grandmother in the Wrens?
October 9, 2007 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Biography, Genealogy, Military, National Archives, Navy, Search, Wrens
Scans reveal lost gravestone text
October 8, 2007 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Genealogy
Illegible words on church headstones could be read once more thanks to a scan technology developed at Carnegie Mellon University in the United States.
China Honors Miss Blatch
October 7, 2007 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Biography, Blatch, Genealogy, Stanton
The following report of the Chinese Government offering Nora Stanton Blatch a position in the Engineering Corps was first published in the New York Times on April 25, 1906.
UK Nonconformist BMD records online
October 6, 2007 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Baptists, Genealogy, Methodists, Presbyterians, Protestant Dissenters, Quakers
A project between The National Archives and S&N Genealogy Supplies means that you can now access images of these records online. BMD Registers provides access to the non-parochial and nonconformist registers 1567-1840.
W. H. Blatch Killed By Loose Live Wire
October 5, 2007 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Biography, Blatch, Genealogy
William Henry Blatch, husband of Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch, the suffrage leader, died on Monday August 2, 1915 as the result of accidental electrocution. The following account is a transcription of the report which appeared on page 5 of the New York Times the following day, August 3.
The Dorsetshire Labourer
October 4, 2007 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Dorset, Genealogy, Hardy
The Dorsetshire Labourer by Thomas Hardy first appeared in Longman’s Magazine, July, 1883.
Lee De Forest to Wed Miss Blatch
October 3, 2007 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Biography, Blatch, De Forest, Genealogy
The following article regarding the announcement of the engagement of Lee De Forest to Nora Stanton Blatch was first published on Wednesday February 12, 1908, on page 5 of the New York Times
Wellington No Rough Rider
October 1, 2007 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Biography, Blatch, Genealogy, History, Sweetapple, Wellington
William Henry Blatch, husband of Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch, the suffrage leader, recalls an encounter between his grandparents and the Duke of Wellington in a letter to the New York Times published on January 8, 1908.
Edward Henry Perowne (1826-1906)
September 29, 2007 at 4:00 am (Biography, Genealogy)
Tags: Biography, Genealogy, Perowne, Scott
Edward Henry Perowne was born on January 8, 1826 at Burdwan, Bengal the son of the Reverend John Perowne, a missionary with the Church Missionary Society and his wife Eliza Scott, a teacher in the missionary school.
John Thomas Woolrych Perowne (1863-1954)
September 27, 2007 at 4:00 am (Biography, Genealogy)
Tags: Biography, Browne, Genealogy, Perowne, Woolrych
John Thomas Woolrych Perowne was born on June 1, 1863 the eldest 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.
