HOW WE USED TO LIVE - Using old newspapers and books, census returns and historical documents, along with extensive genealogical research, it has been possible to take a glimpse into the past and get a feel of how we used to live with the help of the people who lived their lives in that time. 

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FAMILY NOTES - Family history is so much more than just big collection of names on a family tree. Our ancestors and their siblings were real people who led real lives. Some of them left behind long paper trails. Others left very little. While always on the look out for more, the data already discovered is being compiled in chronological order under individual siblings, and then grouped together under the head of the family.

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FAMILY ALBUMS - With written information on our ancestors we can often only imagine from that what they looked like. Many families kept photographs, especially from the early nineteen hundreds onwards, although sometimes these no longer survive or were unnamed. Luckily there are some photographs containing mostly identified people, so a few later ancestors will appear here, but note they will not be viewable on mobiles!

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WHO WAS WHO - Individuals related to the family through marriage have often been researched, along with many unrelated individuals, for no other reason other then they looked too interesting not to research. Notes on some of these people can amount to little more than a useful, line or two, while those on others can easily fill several pages. As the information is sorted and added the surnames will be listed in alphabetical order.

 

DAILY LIFE - All sorts of interesting items centred around the daily lives of our ancestors and their contemporaries have been collected since the late 1970s, when our family history project was in it's infancy, such as notes on family life, babies and young children, children at work, housing and living conditions, seasonal activities and various recreations, and more. They will gradually be sorted a bit at a time and added here.

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OUT AND ABOUT - This section will contain some village descriptions, and a town or two, along with roads and rails, churches and chapels, schools, public houses, mills, shops, farmhouses, cottages, and more, plus many of the owners and or the occupiers, too. In the quest to discover where our ancestors lived, or where they worked, again many notes have been collected. There will be plenty of names to search through, too.

 

LOCAL EVENTS - Many types of local events took place over the years, from crime and court appearances, to storms or flooding, snow, fires, strikes, and much more. Most of the events would have caused many problems, upset, or much discussion, around the local area at the time, and for sometime afterwards, but are now largely long forgotten, only to be rediscovered in a column or two in one of the local newspapers of that time. 

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NATIONAL EVENTS - Some national events, like World War One. were major. In some way or other WW1 or the Great War, as it was once named, affected everyone then living in England and beyond, and is still thought about and discussed today. It, of course, has a place in our history books, but there were other national events such as the Poor Law Act of the 1830s and the later Children's Acts that also get a mention in them, too.

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THE NEWSPAPERS - While searching for articles in the local, mainly nineteenth century, newspapers that related to various ancestors and their siblings other articles on all aspects of parish life were collected, and are still being collected, for they tell, perhaps more than anything else can now, what life was really like then and how we really did live in the past. All the pages will be updated as and when new articles have been found.

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