Filey, yesterday. This time we parked up at the country reserve and walked down, which meant crossing the Ravine on the lovely Church Bridge. Nice because this brings you in to the town via the old fishermen’s cottages: From there, it’s a short walk to the Museum. Passing this: I did spare a thought for […]
Category: Genealogy
From the 1879 History of Tazewell County, Charles C. Chapman & Co. Quoted in Martha McDonald’s “Roodhouse Family Tree”, 2002. This story concerns the son of one of my mariner relatives – my first cousin 5 times removed (twice over!) one of the sons of Jane Roodhouse (above), by her first husband Captain Abraham Wood. […]
I have 2 loves – knitting and genealogy. Sometimes, the pair collide. As in the case of my Moses ancestors who seem to have run vessels out of various places, including Cawood, Howden and presumably Hull, making a living from inland waterway shipping as well as farming along the banks of the Ouse. Here is […]
PENELOPE HEMINGWAY 