Persons of interest...

Australian vaudeville, Rev F. A. Marsh, Philo-Semitism in Cromwell's England, Washington Territory pioneer Alonzo M. Poe, and the Darjeeling tea industry to 1947 - 'strangers in a strange land'.

28 September 2017

Agnes M Bald – ‘loopy’ or lonely?

One of Mum’s memories of childhood is that her aunt ‘Nan’ was ‘a bit loopy’. Nan (actually Agnes Miriam Bald) was a younger sister of...

21 September 2017

Noel Patrick Hilton finds a surname or two…

Strange as it may seem, the exact sequence of events in Dad’s life from when he left the Lyell home until his marriage in 1951 is not enti...

13 September 2017

Jottings of interest: September 2017

Joseph Swan The online home of The Friends of Glasgow Necropolis has included an item about great-great-great-grandfather Joseph Swan i...

31 August 2017

Noel Patrick Hilton…circus boy comes to town

The story starts with the accidental electrocution of lines worker Harold Patrick Keys on 23 March 1925 in Sydney. The death was ruled an a...

24 August 2017

Lucy Poe Blandy – DC’s last ‘real’ daughter of 1812

Lucy Jane Poe was the eldest child of William R Poe's second marriage to Mary Jane Dale and the longest-lived of any of his children. B...

16 August 2017

Alonzo Marion Poe: a recurring family name

When I began researching the Poe family one recurring name was Alonzo Marion. My grandfather’s middle name was ‘Marion’ and his father was ...

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