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Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary: unravelling four Walne women (Part I)

Four women's silhouettes. The first is higlighted by means of a green background.

We might live in an age where a missing letter means not receiving an email, but our ancestors did not! The Walnes, like so many other families, take us on a merry dance through the records, transcribed deliberately or otherwise in several different ways. This Christmas [December 2024!], I was inundated with emails. One cameContinueContinue reading “Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary: unravelling four Walne women (Part I)”