Mary Anne Evans1 was born on the 22nd November 1819 at South Farm on the Arbury estate, on the outskirts of Nuneaton, Warwickshire, the third of five children of parents ...
In the middle of Nuneaton parish churchyard lies a substantial flat stone memorial to the mid 19th Century clergyman, Canon Robert Savage. The tombstone, like so many in our graveyards, ...
In part one, I gave the background to my hunt for George Mandyoli Konah Macomo. In this section, I deal with his time in Nuneaton.
Sir George Grey’s decision to send these ...
In the previous section, I looked at the chiefs’ time in Nuneaton. This section concludes the story.
Savage’s son Alfred, who would have been 12 years old when the chiefs arrived, had ...
Many of the apprentice records held by Warwickshire County Record Office relate to paupers. The parish had to care for children when their parents died or became unable to support ...
It is hard to think of Nuneaton without it being inextricably entwined with George Eliot. Such is the cultural resonance of the great novelist, that a hospital and school are ...
Registers of Banns of Marriage
The baptism, marriage and burial records found in parish collections held at Warwickshire County Record Office are the family historian’s bread and butter. Banns registers, however, are an often ...
I have previously written about Walter Kimberley, a Coventry City footballer who lost his life during World War One. He was not the only former Coventry City footballer to suffer ...
Today we may be more familiar with the concept of a drag queen, but drag kings (or ‘male impersonators’) have a history dating back over the centuries. Performers such as ...
We found an absorbing new interest for our retirement when we joined Coventry Photographic Society five years ago. When researching the society’s history and updating its society’s website, we discovered ...
I grew up in the Dugdale Arms, Nuneaton. Our family had run “The Dug, or The Duggie”, as it was known, since 1911, but its history extended further back than ...
The Dugdale Arms in Nuneaton had been in my family since 1911. My mum and dad took over as landlords in 1957, having lived next door to The Dug (as ...
The Dugdale Arms in Nuneaton, also known as The Dug, had been a pub since the 1860s.
For the first 9 years of my life we lived at 36 Dugdale Street, ...