HOPPER: back to 13th century Ickham in Kent
The Hoppers of Ickham, Kent Although the Hopper family eventually went on to populate the East Kent coastal towns and villages, the earliest reliable records of my Hopper ancestors go…
WW2 Naval losses – Boatswain William Shepherd and Stoker John Hogben
At least two of those men in my family tree killed in action during World War Two died at sea... but not necessarily by enemy fire. These are their stories.y...
Tom Flight – Two Halves of a Life
Imagine a pile of clothing on a sea shore. A middle-aged man enters the water and swims out to sea until he disappears. Alternatively, the same man is in a…
The Swing Riots of Kent, & the Willis family emigration to the USA – 1836
So often in the past it was the case that national, political events impacted directly on our ancestors. This is particularly the case in the Willis family in Barham in Kent. Between 1835 and 1850 four families had emigrated to the United States of America.
The Legend of Fred FISHER’s Ghost – Campbelltown, New South Wales.
The legend of Fisher's ghost is a popular Australian story dating to the early 19th century. It arose from a series of historical events which occurred in Campbelltown, now a large urban population centre on the southwestern outskirts of Sydney, but at the time a remote rural outpost.