Strat Liddiard Papers – A Liddiard study from circa 1880-1960 from 3 generations of Liddiard’s – Recording Available Posted 26 March 2023 by Julie GoucherCourtesy of Karen Rogers (Liddiard One-Name Study) Click the image above to play the recording Join us as the Guild of One-Name Studies connects with the Liddiard Family History Society, and as we walk back in time and look at the invaluable research into the Liddiard name carried out by William Bedford Liddiard (1849-1918) his [Click to continue…]
April – June 2023 Journal Available Posted 25 March 2023 by Julie GoucherThe April-June 2023 issue of the Journal of One-Name Studies members is available to read and download. Please make sure you are logged in to the website. You can read the journal HERE. There was one attachment with the journal, which was information about the next Seminar – details can be found HERE.
Women’s Work: Lives in Stitches – Naomi Tarrant, October 2023 Webinar Posted 24 March 2023 by Julie GoucherThis talk looks at an overlooked source for genealogy, samplers and other embroidery worked by girls and young women, which can supply information about their family, the schools they attended and their part in society. This should help with pieces which appear to have no known link to a member’s family and to rescue any [Click to continue…]
Spotlight on the The Fonblanques of England and France with Emma Cox Posted 9 March 2023 by Julie GoucherThe September webinar is shining a spotlight on the Fonblaques One-Name Study. During this session we explore the Fonblanques of England and France; from Huguenot glassblowing in France to banking, law, writing and diplomacy in England in the 18th and 19th century. “Gentilhomme Verriers”, the Huguenot Fonblanque family were persecuted in France and sent two [Click to continue…]
The Mount Stewart Murder of 1866, Scotland’s oldest official cold case with Chris Paton Posted 8 March 2023 by Julie GoucherIn March 1866, a Perthshire farmer returned to his farmhouse from a weekly market to discover that his sister had been brutally murdered whilst he was away. An investigation over the following year eventually led to a suspect charged and tried, only for the case against him found to be non-proven in Scots Law. The [Click to continue…]