Category: Neal
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Entirely to the Water from Birth
The nautical Harper Smiths
The nautical Harper Smiths It is not often nowadays that an article in Who Do You Think You Are? magazine sends me off immediately to follow it up. But the March issue, received yesterday, has a Focus article on ‘Masters and Mates Certificates’ {4} which indicated it was worth checking to see if the 3 x great grandfather who had the title Captain could be found. He was born in the 1790s, so was already a master mariner when certificates came in from 1850. There was » »
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The Facebook delusion
As mentioned in the last Cutlock & Co article A bunch of artists, I have recently added Facebook to the tool set used in finding relatives. Clearly this is mainly useful for living cousins etc. but the odd ancestral photo and possibly historic info can crop up too. Facebook is however a weird beast where the etiquette can be far from clear. It is not an ideal medium for making new family contacts. Illusions of Privacy The first problem I have is the feeling of » »
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A bunch of artists
For a change, an item featuring contemporary relations, as various cousins have been caught in a Facebook trawl over the last month or two. Apart from being a source of family photos, including a few oldies (thanks Brenda), the number with an artistic line of work (or serious hobby) was noticeable. While this may be down to other occupations not leaping out quite so obviously, it seemed worth doing a round up, whether they are on Facebook or not. Top of the list, not least » »
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My type of relation
Or: A fine Boddy of a man
Or: A fine Boddy of a man Shortly before Christmas, I decided to check through notes I’d left myself a few weeks earlier, indicating that half cousins the Malletts needed further work {1}. Flora Mallett married Frank Webb 1917 in Norwich. A search on Ancestry’s database came up with three daughters – Muriel, Margaret and Ileane, all born Norwich. Ileane died young, so nothing further to search for, but Margaret got to marry Wilfred Henry Ward (1946), and Muriel married Jack R Boddy in 1943. It » »
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Neals at home – photos
A selection of old photos from family albums. Click on the images to see a larger version. All but countryside snap at 7 Guernsey Road, Norwich. Guernsey Road 1927. Mrs Williams? Mrs Neal, Edie, Arthur as a babe? Edie, Mrs Neal, Emily, Arthur, 1935 Ethel & Reg Gunton, Mrs Neal, Derek as a babe, 1928 Mrs Nellie Neal, Emily, Sydney Howes, Williams children in a Shropshire lane Ethel Williams at Guernsey Road Granma Neal, Edie, Ethel Neals in Norwich and Shropshire » »
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A family history year around the globe
It is time once again for a review of the year just gone, and clearly the top highlights are all from overseas. Bob sleigh The Griffiths branch in Wilkes-Barre By no means the only result from visiting cousin Islwyn in July, but almost certainly the largest impact, was finding enough details on the family of great great grandmother Phoebe Griffiths to trace where they went – 3 sisters to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1 sister to New Zealand. Cracking a family myth gets the story started. Staying together » »