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#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.