Hector's Family History Blog

According to her death certificate, Thomas' mother, Martha, was 32, much the same age as his father, 34, when he was born in 1844. In...

Writing about the two Frederick Lewis Drews has cleared my mind - so much that  I now favour a third Frederick, born in Canterbury in Januar...

In 1861, Frederick Drew , aged 30 and born in Canterbury , was a civil guard at the convict prison at Portland. Civil guards were responsibl...

We believe that Edwin P Corin (misdescribed as Edward by the enumerator) was a warehouseman, and was at 4,5 and 6 Love Lane in Aldermanbury ...

There is a possibility that Edward was the father of Margaret's illegitimate daughter, also Margaret, who was born on 6 July 1813 and ba...

The reference in the Belfast News-Letter of 14 July 1835 to Jeremiah Taylor Andrews marrying Martha Rogers seems to assume readers will be ...

Philip Knight (1806-1979) was the youngest of eleven children of John and Mary Knight, and born and baptized on Foulness Island. He left the...