Sarah Gardiner’s prospects were bright. Although she didn’t marry, she trained to be a schoolmistress. Sadly, her life was tragically interrupted after a bike ride in September 1902.Continue Reading
When I originally researched my second great-grandparents William Richard and Elizabeth Webb, I noted an issue on the 1901 England Census. The family wasn’t together.Continue Reading
My great-aunt Eleanor Webb was a bit of an outlier – I wasn’t even aware she existed until I found her marriage record in Ontario.Continue Reading
Records suggest that Gertrude Webb was blind and attended Institute for Blind Welfare and School for the Partially Sighted in Fulwood, Preston, Lancashire.Continue Reading
I found this fantastic postcard amongst my grandmother’s photo albums. My great grandfather, Arthur Bird Griffin is on the left behind the big guy in the front.Continue Reading
My Uncle Ernie was always just Uncle Ernie. A name was all the man shared with the popular children’s character. I remember him being very tall, and yet very soft and gentle. My mother says that when my father had to work the day I was brought home from theContinue Reading
I found the photo above in one of my grandmother’s photo albums. I hadn’t removed it—but when I did, what a find. The back had a list of all of the people in the picture and where they were from. I believe the pic dates to May 24th, 1917, onlyContinue Reading
Robert Martin Gardiner emigrated from England to Canada where he married Laura Eleanor Bovaird on May 18, 1892.Continue Reading
Taking the long way around my brick wall, I discovered my 3x great-grandfather through his cousin, after I found his cousin’s wife.Continue Reading
If she’d lived this long, my grandmother, Dorothy Irene Griffin would have been 100 years old today. I’ve spent the past couple of days going through her old albums and thought I’d share some pics. Gran was born while my grandfather, Arthur Bird Griffin was away at the great warContinue Reading