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1 September 2009

Thomas and Mary Ann (nee Calf) Barnaby of Great Yarmouth are featured: the sad tale of a bankrupt baker and the fall-out which affected his family. Link: Thomas Barnaby

20 August 2009

The story of my grtx2 grandparents Jeremiah James Wright and Sarah Ann (nee Barnaby) Tuck is related.

Link: Jeremiah Tuck

18 August 2009

A new article About this site and acknowledgments has been added. Link: About this site.     T

11 October 2009

To lay the groundwork for the story of my family at Portsmouth, I am up-loading an explanation of Portsmouth place names. There is also at attempt at a definitive history of ‘New Buildings’ in Portsea Town - an area about which there appears to be a bewilderingly lack of information. Link: Portsmouth place names and Dockyard New Buildings.

 

 

 

 

4 November 2009

I begin the early history of my ancestors the Dare/Dear family - silversmiths. Link: Dear family

6 January 2010

The story of Thomas Barnaby the bankrupt baker (see below: 1 September 2009) was featured in a two-page article in Family History Monthly: January 2010; Issue 178) (shown right)

To see article, click this link: Barnaby FHM

There is a list of the guests (and their gifts) at the wedding of Harold and Gertie (nee Dee) Saunders. Link: Wedding List

3 February 2010

The March issue of Your Family Tree magazine

(Issue 87, right) has two articles over four pages about my family:

(1) re: the unlawful marriage of William Dee in the Skeleton’s section.

Link: Dee YFT

(2) re: the journey of discovery which revealed the reason for the change of surname from Pafford to Mills. Links: Pafford p1; Pafford p2, Pafford p3.

18 March 2010

My Pafford ancestors are introduced. Firstly, George - my greatx4 grandfather. Link: George Pafford. Then, his son James Pafford/Mills. His detailed story covers two pages. Links: James Pafford Part One; Part Two

15 April 2010

My greatx3 grandparents are featured, John and Jane Green. John was a boat builder/proprietor near the Rivers Thames and Lea. Link: Greens

20 May 2010

Your Family Tree magazine (Issue 91, right) published my article about silversmiths in my family that featured the Dare/Dears. To read this, go to this link: Silversmiths YFT

14 July 2010

An article about my greatx 3 grandfather, John Green, has been printed in YFT (Issue 93) see right.

 

To read it, go to this link: John Green YFT

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