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Wendy Percival
Apr 8, 20223 min read
The Murder Stone
By an exciting coincidence, during my trip to The Gower in Wales last week, I came across a murder stone. It was in the churchyard...
Wendy Percival
Dec 10, 20213 min read
The DeLacy-Staunton mystery solved!
In the mystery of Edward DeLacy-Staunton, the name on a plaque on the wall of East Worlington church, more tantalising clues have emerged...
Wendy Percival
Dec 3, 20212 min read
The DeLacy-Staunton Mystery unravels!
I left you hanging last time, about a development in this mystery concerning revelations from Devon Archives. If you read my blog post...
Wendy Percival
Nov 26, 20212 min read
The mystery of Mr DeLacy-Staunton
When I volunteered to help find information about an unknown WWII hero, I thought it would simply be a case of looking up a few things on...
Wendy Percival
Jun 11, 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
Aug 21, 20202 min read
On the Trail of a Mystery School
A comment in my late aunt's family history notes about my grandmother, Winifred Griffiths, (the little mite in the middle, pictured left)...
Wendy Percival
Feb 29, 20201 min read
Floods of dismay
It's been distressing to watch the news reports over these past couple of weeks concerning flooding in many areas of the UK, and...
Wendy Percival
Aug 30, 20192 min read
A Cornish conundrum
Last Sunday was my parents' wedding anniversary. Sadly, neither are alive to celebrate what would have been 64 years as husband and wife....
Wendy Percival
May 3, 20192 min read
Intrigue and inspiration
I've thoroughly enjoyed the recent BBC TV series, A House Through Time which tells the history of 5 Ravensworth Terrace in Newcastle...
Wendy Percival
Apr 26, 20192 min read
Death far from home
I wrote a recent post (see Mysteries of a Devon churchyard - a poignant inscription) about the death in 1895, of 30-year-old Luke...
Wendy Percival
Apr 19, 20192 min read
Death & disease in Poldark country
While I was holidaying in Cornwall recently, we visited the National Trust’s Levant Tin Mine - very Poldark! It was on this part of the...
Wendy Percival
Mar 29, 20191 min read
Mysteries of a #Devon churchyard - a poignant inscription
As you'll know if you've been following this blog recently, I've been curious about the stories behind the gravestones in the churchyard...
Wendy Percival
Mar 22, 20192 min read
Another churchyard tragedy
To follow the story of the sad death of 12 year old John Edworthy (see Churchyard mysteries - a tragic story) this week I discovered the...
Wendy Percival
Mar 15, 20191 min read
Churchyard mysteries - a tragic story
Poor John Edworthy died aged only 12 years old, in a horrific accident. In my blog post last week, Churchyard Mysteries, I wrote about my...