Month: March 2022

Postcard From The Past

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…or, how I found myself researching an unrelated family! On 30th July, 1907, someone identified only as ‘V’ sent a post card to ‘Miss Kingsford, 294 Brockley Road, London N6′. I purchased the above postcard on eBay, because it featured the home town of my husband’s great grandfather, […]

Warlow Misfortune

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The above photograph was in a family photo album previously owned by my great grandparents and then grandparents. For many years, it intruiged me. Who was Thomas Warlow? Who was he to my great grandparents, in whose album it had been placed over a hundred years ago? The […]