Given the TV programme featuring Britain’s biggest family, you might be interested to hear about a very large Warwickshire family reported by the Rugby Advertiser in 1912 as follows. It ...
My ancestor, Spencer Mason from Warwickshire, went to London and worked as a baker in Islington. One of his sons, Daniel Spencer Mason, was described as a ‘gentleman’ in his ...
Migration
I should have known things would not be any different, even back in the 1700s, given that my grandparents up and relocated to Canada from Leicestershire, England in 1913. People ...
This Ladies complete pocket-book was found in the last of a row of houses beyond the factory, on the road from Wixford to Bidford.
Although the book is dated as 1777, ...
Hon. George Shirley
George Shirley was born in 1705 at Staunton Harold, Leicestershire. At the age of 16, he joined the army as an ensign in the First Regiment of Footguards. ...
Judith Dugdale was the granddaughter of Sir William Dugdale, the famed antiquarian. Her letter to her daughter Isabella, in 1727, is a bit of a rant about the failings of ...
The will begins:
I Nathaniel Mason of Withybrook in the County of Warwick Grasior being of sound and perfect mind memory and understanding God be praised to make and ordain this ...
At Easter 2007 I went to Stretton on Dunsmore in search of my Parrott family history. I was lucky to find Kath Edwards, a cousin who was still living in ...
