Category: Neal
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Uncle Ernest the pharmacist
I’m preparing for a major exercise digitally scanning a whole lot of old family photos (first half of 20th century) so have been checking over my family history records of those I know feature. It might make it easer to organise the scans and make sure all relevant info is gleaned from attached notes etc. The Laddiman family from Shropshire certainly are in the mix. Ernest John Laddiman married my great aunt Eliza Neal in Norwich, 1905, and at the 1911 census they were living at » »
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Better dead than in the workhouse?
I’ve now had a chance to take more of a look at the new Norfolk records which have appeared recently on familysearch.org (see last blog post). Images of a variety of documents, including Poor Law Union records (workhouse), some Non-Conformist church records (rather limited in Norwich at least – 2 Congregational , 1 Quaker, 1 Unitarian, covering minutes, membership and BMD), Bishops transcripts (which I’m not familiar with) and some more . It is purely an image database – no index other than to location such » »
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Looking ahead to look behind
To follow up the traditional year-end top moments, the traditional look forward for 2011. Some of the possibilities: A visit to the Tonypandy area, and Trealaw cemetery in particular (the list of tree members buried there just keeps expanding), really ought to be on the to do list. Scanning to digital form old family photos. For this, it would be great if the Flip-Pal portable scanner got released in the UK soon, preferably not at straight dollar to pound pricing – see this ‘not-a-review’ post. » »
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Oak River sledge ride to school
A little snow in Manitoba
A little snow in Manitoba Posted earlier on Ancestry message board for Manitoba, and now updated with scans of photos: An old family photo album came out for the first time (for me anyway) this Christmas, with a few snaps from our Neal relatives who had emigrated to Manitoba. Bob, Harry?, Stan, Nellie One photo was labelled ‘School-van Oak River’ – a sledge cart with high sides pulled by 2 horses, with Oak River (and some less legible writing) written on the side. On the same » »
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Neal family
Norwich and beyond
Norwich and beyond For the Neal family in Manitoba Canada, please see the Abroad page. [toc] Robert Smith Neal Neal family at 1902. Caption written by Emily (when older?), from rear left – numbers show birth order: “Laura (7), Henry (5), George (6), Eliza (4); Edith (8), Ellen (Nellie) (1), Mother, Father, Robert (2); Albert (11), Mary (Polly) (10), Emily (9). No 3 Alice in Canada”. Robert Smith Neal was born 1852 in Norwich, probably 24th April. He was a shoemaker, but later (in his » »
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Death of Laura Curtis
Great aunt Laura was originally only a name in a list of birthdays and deaths kept by our gran, her younger sister. Laura’s great granddaughter then made contact via the Ancestry website and our subsequent researches added some more life, and unfortunately rather a lot of death, to the bare bones. Marriage and baby Laura Emma Neal, born June 1885 Norwich, was the seventh child (out of eleven) of Robert Smith Neal/Ellen Elizabeth Watts. The rest of the Neal family did quite well, as teachers, locksmith, » »