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Framlingham Corn Merchants

Back in 2021, I entered a competition to write ‘A story worth telling’ for the IHGS. For me, that story was about our former family business, H.A.Walne Ltd. The story describes how it evolved from earlier companies, and how it became Walnes Seeds, which still trades today (although no longer in family ownership). Later thatContinueContinue reading “Framlingham Corn Merchants”

#52Ancestors Week 14: Are these the Miss Walnes you’re looking for?

Diving back in at week 14 (I’ve recently completed a Pharos Local History Course during my research time), I’ve just added a new post to my One-Name Study page. It investigates the conundrum of which Miss Walne of Whitlingham was a subscriber to Norwich Public Library back in 1825. Why am I interested? Because inContinueContinue reading “#52Ancestors Week 14: Are these the Miss Walnes you’re looking for?”

Are these the Miss Walnes you’re looking for?

Check it out! #52Ancestors Week 14 “In a long list of 1825 [Norwich] Public Library members, I was delighted to find my distant aunt, ‘Miss Walne of Whitlingham’, whose name is printed beside many other Georgian citizens. She was something of a minority as a female (women appear to make up less than ten perContinueContinue reading “Are these the Miss Walnes you’re looking for?”

#52Ancestors Posts V, VI, VII and VIII: Four weeks of updates in one

Not quite in chronological order (!) a rundown of my last four weeks of #52Ancestors: Week VI: Mapping in March Unusually, I include much of the post from my One-Place Studies post below because it may be of interest to blog followers here, too: “The theme for week six of #52Ancestors is ‘maps’. I haveContinueContinue reading “#52Ancestors Posts V, VI, VII and VIII: Four weeks of updates in one”

#52Ancestors Post IV: Curious weather in Cransford

This week’s theme was ‘curious’. I took it literally, and knowing it was time for my #OnePlaceStudy to take a turn, discovered the ‘curious facts’ of an extreme weather event in June 1900 and its tragic consequences. Read the post on my Badingham and Cransford website.