#52Ancestors Post V: Branching Out Week Five of #52Ancestors brings us the theme ‘branching out’. The subsequent post has landed here because my One-Name Study includes a marriage between a John ’Walne’ and an Elizabeth Branch in Laxfield, Suffolk, in 1821. In this post, I look at the Walne-Branch marriage and ask whether one partyContinueContinue reading “Branch-ing out in Laxfield”
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One hundred years ago today: a WWI death confirmed
From the Framlingham Weekly News, 28 April, 1917: The death announced in our last issue of 2nd-Lieut. H.G.Walne, second son of Mr and Mrs Walne, Kettleburgh Hall [my Great Great Uncle], is officially confirmed. We are indebted to the bereaved parents for the following particulars of his career :- After finishing his education, Mr Walne enteredContinueContinue reading “One hundred years ago today: a WWI death confirmed”
200 years ago today – The Hoxne Association
A meeting of the Hoxne Association was advertised to take place on 11 April, 1817. The Association was a private prosecution association – the idea being, in a time before a nationwide Police force, that members paid a subscription which allowed the association to help pay the expenses of apprehension and prosecution of suspected criminalsContinueContinue reading “200 years ago today – The Hoxne Association”
A double wedding…almost!
It’s always intriguing to spot siblings in a group of four names in the marriage index: sharing the same Registration District, Quarter, Volume and Page Number. It suggests that it just might have been a double wedding. Alice Walne and her brother George Walne both married in Cosford RD in December Quarter 1905 (Vol 4a, PageContinueContinue reading “A double wedding…almost!”
150 years ago: Arrivals in Bath
On 3 January 1867, the Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette announced the arrival of several men at the White Lion Hotel, among them Mr Walne. This may well have been Alfred Septimus Walne or one of his brothers. Certainly Alfred spent time there as he was enumerated at the hotel in the census of 1861, when he wasContinueContinue reading “150 years ago: Arrivals in Bath”
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