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The Added Tragedy of 1918
While I'm busy writing the 5th Esme Quentin Mystery, and have less time for family history researching, it's the perfect opportunity to...
Wendy Percival
Oct 15, 20211 min read
Desperately seeking Eleanor
In my post Aftermath & Mystery I explained how I'd been unable to find any record of my great-grandmother's younger sister, Eleanor Hick,...
Wendy Percival
Oct 8, 20212 min read
Family scandal
While I'm busy writing the next Esme Quentin Mystery and not posting on the blog so often, it's an ideal opportunity to revisit posts...
Wendy Percival
Sep 17, 20211 min read
A House Through Time
While I'm busy writing the next Esme Quentin Mystery and not posting on the blog so often, it's an ideal opportunity to revisit posts I'd...
Wendy Percival
Sep 10, 20211 min read
Lost precious pets
Welcome back to the blog! I hope you all had a good summer. Sadly, ours will for ever be marked as the time we said our last goodbyes to...
Wendy Percival
Sep 3, 20212 min read
Tragedy on the farm
It’s Farm Safety Week this week – an opportunity for all those who work in farming to stop for a moment to ponder the dangers of working...
Wendy Percival
Jul 23, 20212 min read
Who, who else... and why?
Well, I’ve solved one mystery, at least, in the past week or so! Hooray! Though it did spark another… don’t they always? Some while ago I...
Wendy Percival
Jul 16, 20212 min read
One mystery solved... and tennis
I’ll get to tennis in a moment. First, an update and an exciting discovery… While digging around for information on my gran’s singing...
Wendy Percival
Jul 9, 20212 min read
A musical investigation
All the world’s a stage, William Shakespeare said, and for my grandmother, Winifred “Wyn” Griffiths, a professional singer, all her world...
Wendy Percival
Jul 2, 20212 min read
Ancestors in the “beautiful game”
They say, if you can’t beat them join ‘em. So, as the whole of Europe is currently fixated on the European Football Championships, I...
Wendy Percival
Jun 25, 20212 min read
The Elusive James Hick
For a few heady moments this week, I thought I’d cracked the mystery of James Hick’s elusive past and uncovered his guilty secret. If you...
Wendy Percival
Jun 18, 20212 min read
Surprise coincidences
Family history connections can take you by surprise sometimes, as I wrote about in a recent post, Shock Shared Ancestor. A couple of...
Wendy Percival
Jun 11, 20212 min read
A special centenary!
Today is the hundred-year anniversary of my grandparents' wedding! When they got married in 1921 they were living in the same road –...
Wendy Percival
Jun 4, 20213 min read
A legacy of letters
When was the last time you sat down and wrote a letter by hand? It must be quite a rare event these days – with emails and messaging...
Wendy Percival
May 28, 20212 min read
The next mystery
If you read this blog regularly, you’ll know I often end a post with the words… I’ll put it on my To Do list, prompting comments as to...
Wendy Percival
May 21, 20212 min read
Finished!
I’ve been excited to complete a family history project close to my heart this week – it’s not often in family history we can say we’ve...
Wendy Percival
May 14, 20212 min read
A memorial bear
My Dad’s old teddy inadvertently led me to a family history discovery this week. But, as is often the case in these situations, it raised...
Wendy Percival
May 7, 20213 min read
Scandal at the Post Office
How ironic that the very week I’d been researching a branch of my family who’d been postmasters (see Elusive Ellisdons), the next episode...
Wendy Percival
Apr 30, 20213 min read
Elusive Ellisdons
In my quest to establish the a link between the Ellidson branch of my family and my husband’s Ellistons (see Shock Shared Ancestor), I...
Wendy Percival
Apr 23, 20212 min read
Shock shared ancestor!
It’s always nice to make contact with people researching the same family as yourself and establish you have a common ancestor. But it...
Wendy Percival
Apr 16, 20212 min read