Graham Franklin Phillips
This evening I thought to take a look, again, at the tree of Graham Franklin Phillips. To my great sadness, I found that Graham had died in 2008, when his motorcycle hit a deer on Highway 1 just north of Bonner’s Ferry, Idaho, when on a short day trip on Sunday, July 13. He died instantly.
It was a while since he and I had emailed each other, Martha Ann Franklin our common ancestral link. What I did find, and what I urge you to read, is an account of Graham’s life, written and posted perhaps by his wife Fern. What a remarkable man! What a great life!
Sergeant Edward John Bishop Perrin, a remarkable discovery – maybe
Edward John Bishop Perrin was born at Silverstone, Northamptonshire in 1854, the eldest son of William Perrin and Catherine Bishop, my great-great-grandparents. He served in the Army Hospital Corps and died in 1878, aged about 24,of wounds, it was later said, received in the Ashanti War of 1873-74. Read more 
William Perrin married Sarah Howse in 1770
Prompted by not very much at all, I thought I might take another look for Sarah Howse. Several hours of research yielded very little that was new. William Perrin married Sarah Howse in January 1770 but that is almost all we know of my 4x-great-grandmother. Read more
Catherine W Bishop – her parents
Prompted by the recent Comment post from Tommy Boone, I’ve been taking a look again at Catherine W Bishop and begun uploading fresh data: her parents and grandparents, and will add sublings shortly.
Soldiers at Waterloo?
The Battle of Waterloo took place on 18 June 1815.
Maybe the paternal and maternal grandfathers of Robert Arthur Perrin (1861) did indeed take part in the Battle of Waterloo. The story became public in the Abingdon newspaper that reported the funeral service for William Perrin, who died on the loss of HMHS Rohilla in 1914. Though increasingly this seems unlikely, I should like to think so; to uncover the evidence.
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