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Tag Archives: Geake
Dad and I Visit Old Haunts In The South Hams
My Grandpa Hibbitt kept a boat at Frogmore Creek in the South Hams in Devon during the 1960’s. I’ve posted about this before – see this link. On the 4th June 2025, my dad and I took a little day … Continue reading
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Their Finest Hour
Last November, Harvey and I attended an event at Plymouth University in order to contribute to a new online archive called ‘Their Finest Hour’. The University of Oxford project was devised in order to preserve stories and take photographs and … Continue reading
It’s Official – Grandpa Was In The Dad’s Army
I’d long been intrigued by what looked like a certificate which had been issued by the Home Guard amongst the papers belonging to my Grandpa Hibbitt (Charles George Hibbitt). However I’d never had any success in finding anything out about … Continue reading
Why Might James Geake Have Been Brought Up In A Family Which Was Not His Own?
In a previous post I demonstrated how DNA revealed that my great-grandfather, James Geake, wasn’t the son of George Geake and Maria, née Dearing, as was previously believed to have been the case. Today I’m going to explore what might … Continue reading
Geake Family: DNA Goes Some Way Towards Uncovering The Truth
Don’t want to read? Click PLAY to hear an AI-generated audio discussion on this blog post’s key topics. (The audio was produced by NotebookLM Deep Dive Conversation.) For some time I’ve been working on a family history mystery. The records … Continue reading
Rembembering My Grandpa Geake
18TH JUNE Today marks the 25th anniversary of my Grandpa Geake’s (William Hellyer Geake) death. Here he is in front of his house at Crelake Park in Tavistock Devon. And here Grandpa is sitting in the chair next to me … Continue reading
DNA Highlights My Grandpa Geake’s Mysterious Irish Connections
Ancestry has recently completed its Irish ethnicity regions update and now offers 92 distinct regions in Ireland. This has resulted in my being able to identify some areas on my maternal grandfather’s side (William Hellyer Geake). My mum, aunt and … Continue reading
My Grandpa Geake, A Moving History
25TH APRIL One hundred years ago on 25th April 1917, my Grandpa Geake (William Hellyer Geake), known as Bill, was born in a blizzard in South Wales. Hopefully the snow was outside! Grandpa was the fifth of eleven children and … Continue reading
My Great-Auntie Betty’s Scottish Lineage
A few months ago my great-aunt Betty (Betty Gordon Hutton) passed away and I have since added her lineage to my website. Auntie Betty was married to Uncle Ron (Ronald Arthur Geake) who was my Grandpa’s brother. They were married … Continue reading
My AncestryDNA Results Say I’m From The Emerald Isle
Yesterday, I received the results of my AncestryDNA test. In a previous post I hinted that I thought I’d be predominantly British with possibly some Irish, Scandinavian and Western European genes. I wasn’t too far off except to learn that … Continue reading