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Uncovered Roots

Freya Thompson

Uncovering the roots that shape who we are and the places we call home.

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One Generation Apart

In 1918, my 4x great-grandfather, Frederick Anderson, was in his early eighties. A wealthy manufacturer, he spent his final years in a detached house. He owned property, loaned money, and, overall, was enjoying the fortune he had spent a li...

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The Birtley Belgians and Me

In 1915, three circumstances collided. Firstly, Britain was experiencing a severe shell shortage on the Western Front, which was seriously impacting the war effort. Secondly, thousands of Belgian refugees fled to Britain following the Germa...

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Joseph Maxwell: The Life of a Victorian Gardener

Gardeners might just have been the unsung heroes of the Victorian era. Who else was going to tend the vast country estates owned by wealthy merchants and members of the aristocracy but the humble garden servant?

These estates were not only...

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D'ye Ken John Peel? My 4x Great-Grandfather

“Do you know John Peel?”

That's the meaning of the song title that turned a Cumbrian man into a legend.

John Peel, by Joseph Simpson (1879-1939)

For the uninitiated, here’s the first verse (in the original Cumbrian dialect) to give you a...

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Finding Albert Bedford: My Biological Great-Grandfather

I never really knew my grandparents. My paternal ones, that is.

While my maternal grandparents lived up the road and essentially helped raise me, my dad's parents lived about 100 miles away in Lancashire. And when I was a child, that felt...

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    Archives services professional and aspiring genealogy expert based in the North East of England. I love connecting people with the past and their local area through family history.

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