ILL-TREATING A WIFE – Ingram Willis charged with ill-treating his wife, 1868
Ingram Willis was born in the village of Barham, Kent in 1837, the son of Ingram Willis* and Thomasin Finnis. By the time of the 1861 Census he was a…
Ingram WILLIS & family emigrate to Hollywood, USA – 1904
Ellis Island, in Upper New York Bay, was the gateway for over 12 million immigrants to the United States as the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station for over sixty years…
Alfred Willis, 18, receives a school beating – Massachusetts, 1842
Alfred Willis was born in Barham in Kent in 1824 - the eldest child of James & Elizabeth (nee Prebble). In 1835 the family (including Alfred and his younger brother…
Norman MAYNE – killed in a hit & run accident, August 1950
On 9 August 1950, Norman was knocked down by a car near his home, "Kenwyn" on Sandwich Road in Whitfield. The car did not stop, and Norman was killed instantaneously.…
‘For the wind is in the palm-trees and it’s there that I would be’ – Fred Gurnsey’s post-war adventures.
[The following account is taken directly from the memoirs of my Great Uncle, Fred Gurnsey, and is used with his permission.] England In January 1945, after seven years in the…