Family History Stories

When I started this blog at the beginning of October 2012 my only thought was to have a go ... I wanted to comment on things that happened to me or that had annoyed me and a blog seemed to be a good place to do this.

I've now decided that my other aim will be to write those family history stories that have been fascinating me for the last 20 years so that other people can read them.  I have been inspired in part by some posts on The Armchair Genealogist.

My own Family History website, with living members removed, can be found here:
http://huttoncroft.co.uk/familyhistory/index.htm  but this consists of bare facts and can be hard to navigate for anyone unused to family history.  So what I will do from now on when I add a family history story to my main blog I'll add a link here so we can find them all easily.

I've started this by reprising my 2009 article from Barnsley Family History Society's journal, Domus Historiae, about my husband's great grandmother Edith Alice.  I've even added an update of information found since I wrote the original piece.

Hopefully I'll end up with a whole library of family history stories that are easy to access, which can be read to accompany the hard facts on my website.  Blog posts about my investigations, background information and a research diary of a kind can be found on my Research Diary Links tab above.

Family History Stories Index

Addictive Hobby Edith Alice Benson pt 1	Mystery Solved Edith Alice Benson pt 2	Leaving for Liverpool Fred Elstob Hutton
Uncle Joe Moderate Who fell on his head	Maw Migration to America as Mormons	Esther Leech Duncan Kay's Grave
Join Up Young Man! Tom Charlesworth	Amelia (nee Hutton) Whealleans pt 1	Whealleans pt 2
John Elstob Hutton absconds with cash	Shipwrecks and Records Thomas Mordey Hutton	Finding Charles Reuben Hutton
Master Mariner's Travels William Satchell Hutton pt1	Black Sheep Found John E Hutton in Bristol	Master Mariners pt2 Huttons in Sunderland
Annie Jones discovered Manchester Records	A Little Bit Pregnant Bailey Family Pendlebury	William Satchell Hutton pt 3 His family and final years
Jolly & Nutley Ancestors pt1 Crook and Howden	Jolly & Nutley Ancestors p2 Witton Le Wear	James Nutley Revealed
Amelia's sad story Amelia Mordey Hutton	Where did Matthew Taylor go?	Mary Hutton's life & death remembered
Funeral Cards Different spellings of Bormond	David & Elizabeth Taylor's Manchester Marriage	Where was William Bateman born?
Joseph Owram's Marriages	Harle pt 1 Surname Variations	Harle pt 2 Kirkwhelpington
James Bateman leaves Bradford for Bitchburn	Benjamin Bateman's travels around Yorkshire	Interned for the Duration Thomas Croft
Benjamin Bateman goes to America	Robert Elstob Hutton Shipowner in Hartlepool	Thomas Elstob Another Master Mariner
John Elstob Yeoman & Customs Officer	John Elstob's Brewing Empire	Grandad William S Hutton in the Home Guard
John Savage Publican in Barnsley	The Moderates arrive in Cumberland	Lewin Green brother of Edith Alice Benson
Marion Hall Service in the ATS	Matthew Bulmer's Missing Marriage	Edward Jones' Family come to Carlton
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Coming Soon (prompts for future posts):

Edward Nutley my granddad's mentor	A Barnsley Lad in America Joseph Owram	Susannah Rogers How many husbands?
Smith family  in Walker	Harle family in Walker in the later 19th century	Mary Catherine Smith Moses - Bormond
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*	Bunns and Rumseys from Essex to Durham	Croft Family around Lincolnshire
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