Tips on Tracing Australian Relatives, with Katie Martin on BBC Radio Solent


Want to know about tracing family in Australia? Tune in to the Katie Martin show on @BBCRadioSolent around 10.40 today, where I’ll be giving some advice. Family Trees and Genealogy … Continue reading Tips on Tracing Australian Relatives, with Katie Martin on BBC Radio Solent

Drinking with the Ancestors: The Three Cups Stockbridge Part 1: Romans, The Wigge Family, Civil War


Inside, the taproom was crowded with Parliamentarian soldiers “Roundheads” stamping mud from their boots.

Have a Butcher’s at Sydnie Christmas’ Christmas Story; were they Jane Austen’s Butchers?


“The Christmas fair at Alton was held with uncommon spirit; the butchers and poulterers cried their wares till the very air seemed fat with beef and turkey.”

Isle of Sheppey Part 2: Danny Dyer’s Family Connection to the Island.


“…he was following in his Father’s foot steps, he followed his dear old Dad”