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. Continue reading
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Gunner William Perrin RM
Excited to receive from National Archives the Attestation Papers of my 2x-Great-Grandfather William Perrin. I have know for some time that prior to his joining the Berkshire police he had served as a gunner with the Royal Marines, for 13 years it was said. More than that I knew not. Continue reading
James Miller in Canada
A watercolour of Donnington House
Remarkable. Only possible on the internet.
I have found and not found descendants of James Miller, whose emigration with his family I traced from Shropshire to Canada in 1884. Searching for a lost copy of a photograph of Donnington House, and discovering that the original site from which I downloaded the copy was no longer live, I did a wider search. Continue reading
Revisiting Great-Great-Great-Grandparents Edwin & Jane Parr
Been spending sometime revisiting my Great-Great-Great-Grandparents Edwin (1801) and Jane Parr. Mainly checking and re-checking facts and assumptions, but also re-writing parts of the ‘story’. Continue reading
Sampler Murkins completed
I have completed entering years of death and burials (except Elizabeth, together with marriages, known to me at this time. I have not yet entered any subsequent Murkins children from these marriages.