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Category Archives: Making Memories
The Partial Solar Eclipse – UK 2015
(Click the images above to enlarge) For the ‘Making Memories’ category, here are a couple of images of the partial solar eclipse which I took last week (Friday 20th March 2015) from the back garden. Quite a spectacle!
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Doing The Deed!
The Deed is done! What Deed?…I hear you say. The Deed Poll, that’s what! No this isn’t a riddle or a joke and it’s not a hypothetical either. For some time now, I’ve been considering incorporating my maiden name back … Continue reading
St James’s Church, Piccadilly, Westminster
Last Tuesday, I retraced the steps of my great-great-grandparents, William Elbert Dando and Sarah Louisa Oliver, when I paid a visit to St James’s Church, Westminster, where the couple married on 11th October 1875. My visit to London was a … Continue reading
The 2011 Census – Family History In The Making
My household questionnaire for the 2011 England and Wales Census arrived this week and, after thumbing through it, I decided to put down a few of my thoughts, from a genealogical point of view that is. This is your chance … Continue reading
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My Parents’ Visit To Cambridge And Parts Of Essex
My parents recently visited Westminster College in Cambridge and viewed the original letters written in 1771 by John Dando (b. abt 1715) and Rev Rowland Hill. They also visited Saffron Walden in Essex, seeing the Golden Butterfly confectionery and tobacconist … Continue reading
Visiting Bristol And Gloucestershire In Search Of Ancestors
My husband, parents and myself recently went on a family history holiday, visiting Bristol and Gloucestershire for a few days. In Bristol, we saw Portland Square, the location of Joseph Dando, the elder, in 1841 and No 26 was where … Continue reading
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Tagged Dando, Fryer, Pitcher, Rice, Spiers, Stinchcomb, Worgan
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Arrival Of A Long Lost Cousin
On 21st May 2008, my father received a phone call from one of his long lost cousins and they met the next day. He was a first cousin to my dad and we discovered lots about the younger generations of … Continue reading