PENELOPE HEMINGWAY
Today (April 21st) is the 200th anniversary of Charlotte Bronte’s birth. To celebrate, here is the text of a piece I wrote for a magazine, in 2012. This piece concentrates on the knitting sticks in the Bronte Parsonage Museum’s collection. As well as sticks, there are extant Bronte textiles, including knitted items. Recently, […]
One day, I’m going to have to get the death certificates. But check out the death dates on this gravestone. These are my great grandma, Annie Hemingway’s, siblings. The children were buried at Hensall, in the old West Riding. Their parents were William Hemingway and Charlotte nee Lambert. The Hemingways were Master Wheelwrights for generations, […]
If you’re a descendant of the Lavelles/Lavells, of Ballyknock, County Mayo, do get in touch. I have something of your’s! Occasionally, at the local car boot sale, I find some lost genealogical treasure and often think it would be cool to re-unite it with its rightful owners. My parents’ generation threw away old certificates “because […]
This year, I’m Writer/Crafter in Residence at the Yorkshire Museum of Farming. So I’m starting a separate blog – we’ll have old farmhouse recipes from my farming families’ handwritten books (I have a couple of these); fascinating delvings into the archives of the Museum, and the occasional wander round the Museum’s exhibits, reserve collection, the […]
PENELOPE HEMINGWAY 