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Our members are participating in the A-Z Blogging Challenge for 2018 with the theme People of My Place. Today's entry is from Peter Cooper. There have been people named Ibbott (and Ivatt, Ivett, Ivit) in Holywell with Needingworth (in Huntingdonshire) for over 2 centuries. One of them was Francis Alfred Ibbott. He was born in […]Our members are participating in the A-Z Blogging Challenge for 2018 with the theme People of My Place. Today's entry is from Peter Cooper. There have been people named Ibbott (and Ivatt, Ivett, Ivit) in Holywell with Needingworth (in Huntingdonshire)

  Our members are participating in the A-Z Blogging Challenge for 2018 with the theme People of My Place. Today's entry is from Chris Collins.   A crudely drawn hand with the inscription, “ye benefactor” spotted alongside an entry in the 1687 burial records of the Priory Church of St Laurence, Snaith, was my first […]  Our members are participating in the A-Z Blogging Challenge for 2018 with the theme People of My Place. Today's entry is from Chris Collins.   A crudely drawn hand with the inscription, “ye benefactor” spotted alongside an entry in

Our members are participating in the A-Z Blogging Challenge for 2018 with the theme People of My Place. Today's entry is from Susan Donaldson. "This remarkable man and grand old Borderer" was an accolade given to Thomas Gray of Earlston, Berwickshire on his death in 1884. He was known in his day variously as "Gingham […]Our members are participating in the A-Z Blogging Challenge for 2018 with the theme People of My Place. Today's entry is from Susan Donaldson. "This remarkable man and grand old Borderer" was an accolade given to Thomas Gray of Earlston,

Our members are participating in the A-Z Blogging Challenge for 2018 with the theme People of My Place. Today's entry is from Linda Jackson. Frederick JACKSON was born in 1841 in the village of Anwick in the Wapentake of Flaxwell, Kesteven, Lincolnshire. The youngest child of seven and the fourth son of Zephaniah Jackson (1805 […]Our members are participating in the A-Z Blogging Challenge for 2018 with the theme People of My Place. Today's entry is from Linda Jackson. Frederick JACKSON was born in 1841 in the village of Anwick in the Wapentake of Flaxwell,

Our members are participating in the A-Z Blogging Challenge for 2018 with the theme People of My Place. Today's entry is from Richard Ewing. Edward Johns was born in Bristol in 1823 to a family of drapers and at the time of the 1841 census he was a draper’s apprentice living with his parents. By […]Our members are participating in the A-Z Blogging Challenge for 2018 with the theme People of My Place. Today's entry is from Richard Ewing. Edward Johns was born in Bristol in 1823 to a family of drapers and at the