Category: Cutlock/Cullum
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Uncle William comes into focus
No longer in a pickle with the Cullums
No longer in a pickle with the Cullums It has been rather a long summer break for this blog – time to get back down to the writing. The only possible subject for this week is making contact with a genuine descendant of my great great grandmother Harriet Cutlock and her husband William Bishop Cullum (see Cutlock/Cullum page). Muriel’s daughter happened to stumble on this website as she was checking out the Cullum name and noticed that Muriel was mentioned. We have been exchanging emails » »
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A progress check
At the start of the year, I set out family history research possibilities for 2011 in Looking ahead to look behind. Half way in, I’m more than pleased with the results so far. Here’s the tally Visit to the Tonypandy area, and Trealaw cemetery in particular. Tick – gathering a useful bunch of photos and data while there, and a splendid visit to a key local relation. There is still one or two blog posts to come on this, but the start is at A » »
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All at sea with a new cousin
So this makes the nice large wall chart of dad’s family “out of date”, if that’s the right phrase for having newly discovered historic information. With a bit of help from the Ancestry Facebook page {1}, I’ve downloaded the 1911 census form for my ‘half great great uncle’ William John Cullum from the actual Ancestry site. And yes, there is another offspring who was not recorded in the 1901 version. I had guessed there would be two, so I won’t make any great claims here. (Doesn’t » »
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Corrupt voting – great uncle accused
Another interesting new history search engine, going beyond the usual sources but creating new frustrations! It has passed the ‘Cutlock test’ though, sort of. Connected Histories is a joint project of a number of universities and currently includes 11 major digital resources for Britain in the years 1500 to 1900 – see the Resources list. Some are academic in origin, others require access via a university or other institution, but there is some freely available material indexed. For example, there is the Clergy of the » »
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Wedding fashions through family photos
There are of course a number of wedding photographs in the family collection, dating back over a hundred years. I thought it might be interesting to look at the differences, from changing fashions and fortunes. The variation is no doubt as much as about what they could afford as personal taste and the conventions of the times. Summer 1905, Norwich, Norfolk Eric Laddiman and Eliza Neal are fifth and sixth from the left back row. The fact that this is their wedding is by deduction » »
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Great photo, shame about the documentation
Continuing the exploration of the large batch of old family snaps digitised last week, here’s one of the more intriguing. It’s a wonderful action shot, taken by that prolific photographer ‘person unknown’. Fred and Dora’s wedding 25 Sept 1926 Labelled ‘Fred and Dora’s wedding September 25 1926’, the event is obvious and the most prominent figure pictured is also easy to identify as grandfather Sydney Howes. The occasion: Frederick Hinton Cullum, son of William John Cullum and Sarah Neve, marrying Dora Lillian Briselden – I had » »