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Elizabeth Holdsworth and the Greene family
On a family tomb in the churchyard of St Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney, the following inscription can be found (or rather, it could be found back in 1896, when a member of the Holdsworth family copied it down): Here … Continue reading
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A new name, but business as usual
Eagle-eyed readers will notice that the name of this blog has changed – from ‘Martin Robb’s Family History Blog’ to ‘Past Lives’. This is partly because the former title was always intended as a place-holder until I could think of … Continue reading
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New information on the Blanch family
My distant relation and fellow researcher Robin Blanch has concluded that our common ancestor, James Blanch, is not the person we had assumed he was. Here is Robin’s note from his tree at Ancestry: After many years of believing I … Continue reading
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The death of Thomas Seager
In my recent post about law stationer William Seager, I noted that his father Thomas died in 1839 and was buried on 8 September at St. Andrew’s, Holborn. The burial record gives Thomas’ age as 69. I’ve now obtained a … Continue reading
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The family of Jane Wild (1828 – 1859)
Yesterday, I took delivery of a copy of the marriage certificate for Samuel Hurst Seager and Jane Wild, and it has drawn me back into the world of stationers, printers and law clerks in late Georgian and early Victorian London, … Continue reading
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Joseph Bowman (1836 – 1893)
In the last post I wrote about my great-great-great-grandparents, Robert Bowman and Caroline Reed. Their son, my great-great-grandfather John Bowman, who was born in Bow, East London, in 1828, was the eldest of six children: three sons and three daughters. … Continue reading
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2010 in review
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers The average container ship can carry about 4,500 containers. … Continue reading
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Writing my family’s history
If there’s been less activity on this blog recently, it’s not because I’ve given up on my family history research: far from it. But I thought it was about time I put what I’ve found out into some kind of … Continue reading
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