Author: Penny Stokes

FamilySearch; James Gould (c1786-1853); Suttons’ seeds; Devonian ancestry; capturing digital information; the Blewbury miser; a childhood fantasy leads to family history

LMA website reviewed; Longworth & District History Society; using browsers and search enginers; Lambourn’s link with Old King Cole; Newbury’s almshouses pt II; Job Lousley of Hampstead Norreys; Sir John Dineley of Windsor

TNA website; burials in wool; Wargrave LHS; the beautiful Lady Craven; smallpox in East Ilsley; a Kingston Bagpuize family tragedy; almshouses in Newbury

Reasons why your ancestor did not make a will; where to find a wife or husband; Weigalls, a grand family with a secret; a Georgian rake who left his mark on Wargrave; a Russian view of Reading; a family saga ending in Broadmoor

London Gazette online; finding evacuees; John Elwes the Berkshire miser; low-cost family history;Newbury’s Newtown Road cemetery; Sailing under the Russian flag

Digging up in the cemetery; evacuees from WWII; Berkshire hero drowned in Essex; the beleagured wife of the rector of Burghfield; James Tufnail, Newbury’s rebel; ironworkers in Reading; precautions against digital catastrophe

Stained glass at West Hendred; Gertrude Bacon; the Women’s Land Army; Australian odyssey; an ancestor at Buckingham Palace