Every year, LinkedIn fills with inspirational posts celebrating women but as a genealogist and ex-HR professional, I often feel uneasy about what we’re overlooking. Quite rightly, we remember the Suffragettes, Marie Curie, Rosa Parks, and the remarkable Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson, and more recently, Malala Yousafzai and many other famous women whose
Names have been changed for privacy reasons. There are themes within this research that some people may find upsetting. Many times I have been asked to research a family with very little starting information. This is Peter’s story. Peter told me he had the “smallest family in the world” and wanted to know if
I have been running my genealogy business full-time for just over two years; long gone are the days of juggling two very different professions. It’s been a steep learning curve, but it has been worth it to do something I love so much. One of the things I have realised is that I am really
Sir Joseph Mawbey, Bart. (1730 – 1798) Joseph Mawbey was born on 2 December 1730, the fourth son and youngest child of John Mawbey and his first wife Martha Pratt. He came to Surrey with his uncle, Joseph Pratt, the owner of a distillery at Vauxhall. Joseph joined the business aged 17. Joseph Pratt died
Ancestors – What are Ancestors? Who are they and why do we want to find them? The definition of the word “Ancestor” is a person, typically one more remote than a grandparent, from whom one is descended. This makes sense as a lot of people would know or have known their own grandparents but perhaps
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