Robert Thompson & SS Empire Spring

3 years ago

Leading Signalman Robert Thompson, aged 24, served as one of six Royal Navy staff aboard the CAM Ship, SS Empire…

Thomas Hill & Raindale Mill

3 years ago

Raindale Mill was relocated from Raindale, near Pickering, to York in 1966 and reconstructed stone by stone at the Castle…

Gilbert Hardacre & West African Cocoa Trade

3 years ago

Gilbert Clapham Hardacre (1889-1959), our Great Grand Uncle on the Hudson side of the family, was our first ancestor to…

Geoff Bainbridge & The Cuban Missile Crisis

3 years ago

Flight Lieutenant Geoff Bainbridge (1924-2022) served with the RAF from 1942 for the duration of the war. He ultimately pursued…

Justus Morris & The Sickly Shoat

3 years ago

The New York Times recorded the death of 3rd Great Grandfather, Justus MORRIS (1821-1899), with a humorous obituary, acknowledging his…

Henry Limberger & The Hessians

3 years ago

Johann Heinrich (Henry) LIMBERGER (1755-1835), 5th Great Grandfather on the Morris line, arrived Staten Island, New York, 1776. Henry had…

Ken Bainbridge & The Half Way Sign

3 years ago

"200 hundred miles from London, 200 hundred miles from Edinburgh" announced my grandfather as we drove past the sign in…

Ford Mustang Versus Shuttle Atlantis!

3 years ago

We had never experienced a rocket launch. It was the summer of 2011 and purely by coincidence we had flown…

John Ogden & The Right Whales

3 years ago

Lancastrian, John OGDEN (1609-1682), was an accomplished stonemason and 10th Great Grandfather on the Morris side of the family. He…

Adelaide Edgar & The Last Onion

4 years ago

Adelaide EDGAR, our great grandmother, was the tenth of twelve children, born 2 August 1888, to John Thomas ONIONS and…

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