2013 in review
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Author: Paul McNeil
TV Genealogist, writer, presenter, Stand-up Genealogy performer. Travelling through time to track down your ancestors.
The Redknapp Family History Part 2; Blackwall Taverns, Smugglers, and Jewish Ancestry?
Joseph Edward Redknap 1816 – 1850? – Sarah Pressman 1813 to 1882 Given That Harry Redknapp has been a very popular Manager of London football team Tottenham Hotspur, who have a … Continue reading The Redknapp Family History Part 2; Blackwall Taverns, Smugglers, and Jewish Ancestry?
The Redknapp Family History Part 1; Origins, Redheaded Merchants on the Thames
…one Waterman saying to a Redknap “I hear you are saying that you are going to give me a good hiding?” before punching him in the face.
Time Detectives uncover Weatherman Simon Parkin’s Grandfather; The Underage War Hero
Simon Parkin Having had some success with Fred Dinenage’s Family Tree, I was asked to see what I could find out for Simon Parkin, the Meridian Weatherman. There didn’t seem … Continue reading Time Detectives uncover Weatherman Simon Parkin’s Grandfather; The Underage War Hero
Vanessa Cuddeford from ITV’s “The West Country Tonight” gets the Time Detectives treatment
…..the Cuddeford name, like many in England, therefore, in a very real way, owes its origins to a Mongol Khan’s attack on a Genoese trading outpost in the South of Russia.
The Forgotten Twins of the Somme
A mystery? How could Time Detectives refuse?
The Family History of The Kray Twins Part 7: Mad Jimmy Kray
Discharged with his scars and medals, Jimmy Kray came back injured from the horror of the tranches, to a single room filled with children….
The Family History of The Kray Twins Part 6: Continued Decline
After John died Elizabeth continued to bring in money for the family by dressing the hair of horses, a strange occupation by today’s standards, but highly in demand an age … Continue reading The Family History of The Kray Twins Part 6: Continued Decline
2012 in review
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The Foreman Family History Part 3
It does make you wonder if Herbert ever told stories to his wife Emma that he had been told by his Father and Grandfather of the Thames barges and Smugglers on Faversham Creek, dodging the revenue men.
The Foreman Family History Part 2
It is most likely that Thomas used his smithing skills on the railways, given that he lived in between The London Chatham & Dover Railworks, and The London and South Western Railworks, with several rail lines clattering alongside the streets he lived in.
Jamie Foreman’s Family Story; Part 1 Origins in Faversham, Kent
Unless the Foremans were the only honest shipwrights in the whole of North Kent, it is almost impossible to imagine, that a family of carpenters and shipwrights were not up to their eyes in the business.
