Let’s be honest there are many of us who are moaners, fussy eaters and very particular when it comes to food and meals today, but what we don’t consider is how spoilt for choice we are. Going back to the 1950s many people had more of a basic diet and Continue Reading
Cheryl Davis
I am passionate about family history and history in general. Feel free to read my articles and if you are starting out, have hit a brick wall, looking at a particular type of record or need any advice please feel free to contact.
Behind The Names
Naming a baby can involve a lot of thought and research for some parents and over time names have come and gone and well come back again! It’s interesting when you look at the Christian names given to our ancestors and believe it or not there were some unusual choices Continue Reading
The 1926 Legitimacy Act
I know so many couples today who have children who are not married and it doesn’t make any difference to their lives or their children’s. However, step back a hundred years and even up to the 1960s it was seen as wrong to have children out of wedlock. Society put Continue Reading
1921 Census
The 1921 census was taken three years after the First World War and Britain was very much still getting over the impact of the war and families were still very much picking up the pieces of the loss of loved ones. The Spanish flu pandemic had also taken its toll Continue Reading
Ebenezer Inspired
Growing up, one of things that sticks out in my mind around Christmas time was watching Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” which over the years I have watched many adaptations and versions of. It’s a story we all are very familiar with. Dickens brought to life the well-known frugal Ebenezer Continue Reading
A letter signed Bransby Williams
Family history can take you on the strangest of paths sometimes. Amongst some old brown torn paperwork I came across a letter which stood out to me which was signed Bransby Williams. One of my most recent genealogy projects has taken me on a slightly different journey to this great Continue Reading
School Records
The School Records – many of these children went to fight in the great war. School became compulsory from 1880 when the Elementary Education Act came in for children aged 5 – 10 to attend school. The Act was an extension of the 1870 Act which is otherwise known as Continue Reading
DNA – Do I? Don’t I?
DNA is such a personal journey for many and it is up to the individual if they want to take that leap into the world of DNA. Many decide it’s not for them and to be honest a few years ago that was me. However, I realised that my DNA Continue Reading
Old and Unheard of Occupations
Firstly sorry I have not been able to post in a while due to trying to complete my lectures for my coursework and being a mother of two small children who demand a lot of my attention. Anyway genealogy and history are the two places I go when I have Continue Reading
Adoption
Adoption is a subject that a lot of people involved find hard to talk about and a subject that is an incredibly sensitive and personal to the individual. One thing about tracing family history is that it opens up events in people’s lives that have happened a long time ago. Continue Reading