The branches of my tree

Index

4/9/2017

W1 : When you wish 2 + 2 = 4
W2 : Alick Benson who died on the golf course
W3 : He was a train driver ... well, he said he was!
W4 : Georgie and the new fangled motor car
W5 : Heavens to Murgatroyd
W6 : The Sandeman Port ancestor
W7 : Thomas Cole's unnamed father
W8 : Shot by a German POW
W9 : James McTear arrives from Ireland
W10 : Coffee maid to Queen Victoria
W11 : Dee is for D'Arcy
W12 : Tragedy hits a young New Zealand family
W13 : Another Sandeman dies for his country
W14 : James Johnson
W15 : John "the ploughman" Spence
W16 : William "the bead maker of Regent Street" Haskins
W17 : Janet Dalrymple (1853 - 1890)
W18 : Frank Musgrove who died at Passendale
W19 : In memory of Jessie and Jessie Agness
W20 : Gunner Stan Musgrove (1919 - 1982)
W21 : James Hill, gingerbread baker
W22 : George Musgrove DCM MM
W23 : Flying Officer Musgrove (1920 - 1942)
W24 : Bobby Musgrove (1922 - 1944)
W25 : How many Williams do you need to prove a point ?
W26 : Hannah Ross nee Adams (1850 - 1932)
W27 : Percy Ross DCM, a sportsman and a soldier
W28 : Thomas (1) and Patience Ross
W29 : Mayor Thomas Ross, Mr Hastings !
W30 : Ann Blore (nee Cooke) 1834 - 1908
W31 : Who was Hannah wild's father ?
W32 : Jessie Dalrymple (1832 - 1911)
W33 : The American connection
W34 : Thomas Ross (1844 - 1896)
W35 : Handwritten Bird's means so much more
W36 : Emily Sherer (1788 - 1872)
W37 : Jack Musgrove - a grandfather I never met
W38 : Leslie Bird TD (1894-1969)
W39 : Aunt Carrie (1887 - 1971)
W40 : Amy - a grandmother who could have changed my life
W41 : Which 'Ross' was my Dad named after ?
W42 : The life and messy death of Clifford Elisha
W43 : William Bird of Newnham (1757 - 1833)
W44 : Grandfather Percy Bird (1883 - 1939)
W45 : Nana Marjorie Bird (1884 - 1961)
W46 : Jennie Bird - my Mum
W47 - Derek Bird - my Dad
W48 : George Bird of Chessington Court Farm
W49 : Henry Ross Bird (1854 - 1926)
W50 : Hugh 'Pop' Benson - OBE and war hero
W51 : William Wareham and the pleasure boat tragedy
W52 : My grandfather was a baker
W53 : Bill Anderson - a lifelong question is answered
W54 : Jennie Hill (1889 - who knows ?)
W55 : William Hill the shoemaker (1804 - 1879)
W56 : William Hill the Fleet Street journalist (1852 - 1932)
W57 : Thomas McQuilliam - died protecting his sisters reputation
W58 : Anne Styles nee Ross nee Bird
W59 : Would Caroline Bird from France please make herself known
W60 : Edwin Bird (1829 - 1870)
W61 : Frederick Edwin Bird (1861 - 1920)
W62 : William Henry Bird the 1st class schoolmaster
W63 : Another William (1798 - 1870), another house builder
W64 : The death of a child
W65 : William Benson (1850 - 1898)
W66 : A Bird born at The Tower of London
W67 : Marion Eliza Benson (nee Johnson)
W68 : Harold Wareham the horticulturalist
W69 : A family killed by a V2 rocket
W70 : Rosie Ross - brothel keeper ?
W71 : William Wareham of Esher
W72 : Louisa Maria Pim Wareham (1858 - 1931)
W73 : Wareham's emigrate to Oz
W74 : Edward Allport Wareham (1838 - 1926)
W75 : Harold Wareham - missionary
W76 : John & Jane Noble (part 1)
W77 : John, Jane, her mother and the gold rush (part 2)
W78 : John & Jane (the conclusion)
W79 : The 127 descendants of Margaret Ramsay Sandeman
W80 : Captured by Bonnie Prince Charlie during the 1745 Rebellion
W81 : Dalrymple's affected by insect bites
W82 : Robert Sandeman and the Sect
W83 : William Sandeman my 2 x great grandfather
W84 : The Sandeman at Balaklava
W85 : Wareham Harry - Town Surveyor
W86 : James Dalrymple (1825 - 1880) - merchant seaman
W87 : Grandfather William Hill (1886 - 1946)
W88 : Harry Wareham meet Wareham Harry
W89 : James Young - coal trimmer
W90 : Annie Benson and the colonial merchant
W91 : The linen draper who made his fortune
W92 : My early Bensons
W93 : "Accidental death" while in an institution
W94 : A black sheep
W95 : Another violent death
W96 : Ross from the excise office
W97 : Death in the muddy trenches of Ypres
W98 : The McTears continue to move south
W99 : You are the weakest link !
W100 : John Wild - a servant in London
W1 - W100 : The 100 analysed
W101 : The slums of North Kensington in 1914
W102 : The Charles Booth Survey
W103 : Living in Treverton Street
W104 : 27 Southam Street
W105 : Jim Champkins (1903 - 1988)
W106 : The Kempston Musgroves
W107 : Jack Musgrove and his small place in history
W108 : The first of my Musgroves
W109A : My 2x great grandparents
W109B : My great grandparents
W109C : My grandparents
W110 : Peter Cooke, a victorian accountant
W111 : The Bird Branch
W112 : William Bird and The Great Teapot Mystery
W113 : Contacting my birth fathers family
W114 : All you need to know about the Anderson Clan
W115 : James Anderson, a flax dresser
W116 : John Anderson, a tailor
W117 : The crew of the Halifax
W118 : Tony Bird and the Lanchester
W119 : Plan to visit an ancestor's village
W120 : William Sandeman of Luncarty
W121 : The Rhodrons
W122 : Percy and the Ceylon connection
W123 : Arthur George Wareham - a POW - but where ?
W124 : Murder in Regents Park
W125 : My Dalrymple Branch
W126 : Jessie Agnes McQuilliam (1895 - 1960)
W127 : From the poor school to the trenches
W128 : Clan Anderson
W129 : John Musgrove, the shoemaker (1805 - 1871)
W130 : Charles Musgrove (1891 - 1893)
W131 : Bert Musgrove (1895 - 1951)
W132 : Alf Musgrove (1893 - 1925)
W133 : Catherine Wild, the laundress (1833 - 1905)
W134 : Will Musgrove, newsagent & confectioner (1885 - 1961)
W135 : Hannah Musgrove (nee Wild) - the matriarch of the family (1866 - 1959)
W136 : Finding and meeting my birth mother
W137 : A visit to Whale Island
W138 : My 3 x great grandfather was deported to Oz !

My genealogy blog

#1 : Two Bird's executed - was one innocent ?
#2 : Your false statements will be found out
#3 : The Sandeman Coat of Arms
#4 : Who do you think you are ?
#5 : Looking for a post 1837 death
#6 : How can you appear on the same census twice ?
#7 : Silver Cross of the Order of the Redeemer
#8 : Every postcard tells a story
#9 : A genealogist ahead of her time
#10 : A poem from 1815
#11 : A sad tale of scarlet fever
#12 : Doing her wifely duties
#13 : Remembering ancestors who were POW's in WW2
#14 : The revolution of the 60's
#15 : Why have Mothers Day ?
#15A : When is a bank holiday not a bank holiday?
#15B : Remembering TV 1964
#16 : In Flanders fields the poppies grow
#17 : Unusual occupations
#18 : In my Life
#19 : The second battle of St Albans
#20 : Murder at the POW camp near Comrie
#21 : Alban, the first English martyr
#22 : Lords, my memories 1965 - 1976
#23 : Letter to the unknown soldier
#24 : Leslie Bird and the British Legion
#25 : A poem to remember Able Seaman Musgrove
#26 : Monuments and gravestones
#27 : Would you get married at Christmas ?
#28 : Queen Mary and her hospital at Roehampton
#29 : Corporal Harry Bird of Burma
#30 : I wish to admit I am a coimetrophiliac
#31 : Put your clocks forward one hour tonight
#32 : Why April Fool ?
#33 : St Peter's Church and Graveyard, St Albans
#34 : The future for the genealogist is DNA
#35 : St Leonard's Church and graveyard, Sandridge
#36 : V2 rockets falling on London and surrounding counties
#37 : Freeland House
#38 : Battle of the Nile - names of dead and injured
#39 : Harold Wareham - LMS Missionary Reports
#40 : The old lady and her tortoise
#41 : Witness to the Charge of the Light Brigade
#42 : St Helen's Church and graveyard, Wheathampstead
#43 : Hatfield Road Graveyard, St Albans
#44 : A forgery ends in a hanging
#45 : The Wearmouth Colliery Strike 1870
#46 : There must be a connection ..... there must !
#47 : "Was my grandmother's family originally from Germany ?"
#48 : Back to the Future 2050
#49 : The Mount, Sparepenny Lane
#50 : The Census Taker
#51 : Discharged from duty - Paragraph 392 Kings Regulations
#52 : St Peter's Church, London Colney
#53 : The making of a lithographic print
#54 : We will remember them
#55 : Strange Taxes (1) - Playing cards
#56 : Strange Taxes(2) - the hat tax
#57 : Strange Taxes (3) - the wallpaper tax
#58 : Strange Taxes (4) - a beard tax
#59 : Strange Taxes (5) - duty on hair powder
#60 : Strange Taxes (6) - the fireplace tax
#61 : Putting our ancestors lives into context
#62 : Breaking news : They cancelled Christmas
#63 : On the scent
#64 : SALTC - the early years (1)
#65 : SALTC - the WAGs take over (2)
#66 : SALTC - and so to the end of the grass (3)
#67 : SALTC - up to my stepping down (4)
#68 : Puppet on a string
#69 : An engineer who changed the world
#70 : Why does the tax year begin when it does?
#71 : A visit to an antiques fair
#72 : Escape and evasion reports
#73 : St Piran's Day
#74 : Why is Christmas Day so close to New Year's Day ?
#75 : The Christmas Truce on No Man's Land
#76 : Do's and Don'ts of First Contact
#77 : A Wimbledon Champion at SALTC
#78 : The Tombstone (a poem by an unknown author)
#79 : The Census (a poem by an unknown author)
#80 : The British Postcard
#81 : The Pensioner & the Farm Girl
#82 : The Poem & the Spinster
#83 : The Town Crier & the Lunatic

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