Category: family history
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Bush Houses viewpoints
Cwm Clydach Cottages in colour and b&w
Cwm Clydach Cottages in colour and b&w Cutlock & Co is extremely grateful to a new contact who has forwarded some photos of Bush Houses. One view was familiar, from the painting which appears at the bottom of Feeling Bushed and also a poor quality version received via another source, but the older black and white image was certainly from a fresh perspective. Looking down the valley towards Tonypandy, with the main part of Clydach Vale /Blaen Clydach to the left (north), St Albans church can » »
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Word-Smithing from Smyrna
or: Lyrical lines from Lydia {2}
or: Lyrical lines from Lydia {2} A year ago, ‘Hanging by a thread‘ traced the delicate strands which led to establishing the family of John Harper Smith junior, master mariner {1}. I speculated that the reasons he and his spouse couldn’t be found in 1871 and 1881 England census was that they could be on voyages out of British waters. Now there is some indication of this, in the shape of a poem of his penned from port: Update: here’s a plain text copy » »
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No beating about the Bush
Dreadful conditions, strong community, in Cwm Clydach
Dreadful conditions, strong community, in Cwm Clydach The Cutlock & Co articles on Bush Houses are some of the most popular on the website. As the latest batch of old news uploaded to the Welsh Newspapers Online archive includes nine year’s worth of the Rhondda Leader from the start of the 20th century, a quick trawl seemed a good idea. Forty items came up for “bush houses”. Here are some key ones about the place {1}, which also shine a light on inhabitants’ lives. Constructed in » »
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Historical maps online – update
Historical maps have continued to appear online since the last Cutlock & Co article on the subject back in March 2012 {1}. Here are some fairly recent additions and relevant news items. Also, a new reference page has been created: Press, maps, images. Combining the Visual Resources section of the Research Links page with newspaper archives links and tips. Welsh places Help wanted: A project launched in October 2013 is asking for help with “collecting all the names of places and features in Wales » »
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Taken to Trask
Here are the further newspaper cuttings featuring the Trask family in Weymouth and Merriott, as promised in the year-end round-up {1} which included a section on press appearances of George Trask in the archives. George (about 1863 to Feb 1950) became the second husband of two times great aunt Margaret ‘Annie’ Osborne (1874-1941) in 1905. The cuttings range from the seemingly insignificant to rather more serious reports. Damaging Grass, from Western Gazette 21st May 1880, has Uriah Bell, George Rendall and George Trask, young fellows » »
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The Vickery family from Seavington
It has been quite some time since the last “all that we know about ….” round-up piece on a particular line or individual in the family tree, although there has been plenty of updating of the various ‘People’ pages. {1} The Vickery branch hasn’t had much of a look-in yet, so this article makes a start. Mary Ann Vickery, born 1851 Seavington St Michael, Somerset (baptism 10th August 1851), married Walter Scott 30th March 1872 in the same place. They are great great grandparents » »