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30 August, 2020

Are We Related: George Willett (2. b ~1862 at Henham)

Filed under: 1837-1911,Are We Related,England,Genealogy,Parish Records,Status: Update as Information Arises,Uncategorized,Willett — Tags: , , , — David @ 9:13 pm

This post, and its pair, is in response to a comment about a possible relationship between the Willetts (from Colchester – “my ancestors” as researched elsewhere on this website) and a line of Willetts in the East End of London identified by Lee Willett. The key link seems to be a George Willett born around 1862 or 1863. Branches of the Colchester Willetts migrated to the East End.

The first post revalidated how I am related to the George Willett born in Whitechapel – a descendant of Everard Willett of Colchester. This post examines how Lee’s ancestors may be related to this George Willett.

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18 May, 2020

On this day: 18 May 1918

Filed under: 1914-18 WW1,Faulder,France,Honours,On This Day,Status: Complete,Uncategorized — Tags: , , — David @ 10:11 pm

“On the night of 18th May 1918, members of the St Omer Convoy were called out to evacuate patients after a bombing raid had hit a local ammunition dump.”

“First Military Medals awarded to the FANY” – FANY website [accessed 18 May 2020]

The FANY as they are almost always know were the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, a group of predominantly women with the possibly fanciful idea of combining their horsewomanship and first aid ability to be of service to the British military. They envisaged they could gallop out on to the battlefield to retrieve the wounded and carry them back to the lines where First Aid could be applied. In reality this romantic idea evolved rapidly in World War One into driving heavy motor ambulances – initially for the French and Belgians because the British wanted nothing to do with them.

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30 January, 2020

WW2 Evacuation and the Start of WW2

Filed under: 1939-45 WW2,Biography,England,Status: Complete,Willett — Tags: , , , , , , , , — David @ 7:37 pm

I have been reading through the memoirs of my late mother, then Elizabeth Willett, and trying to “decode” them. Because she was adopted she changed names and places to protect the anonymity of her birth family. However she encoded almost everything – even events that had no bearing on her birth family!

Most recently I have been looking at her description of being evacuated at the beginning of World War 2. Her details in the 1939 register are still redacted (it takes some time for them to unredact details of recently deceased people – it seems they are running at least 15 months behind), so I was not sure where she was sent.

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5 June, 2019

On this day – 75 Years Ago: D Day

Filed under: 1939-45 WW2,Biography,England,Faulder,France,On This Day,Status: Complete,Uncategorized,Willett — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , — David @ 4:15 pm

My late mother, then Elizabeth Willett, was almost 14 in June 1944. In her memoirs she wrote of her memories of D-Day. She was away at boarding school in Sherborne, Dorset.

During the night of the 5th – 6th of June 1944, everyone in my house was woken by the staff and prefects to watch the gliders being towed over to Normandy at the start of D-Day.

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11 November, 2018

On this day 100 years ago: Armistice

Filed under: 1914-18 WW1,Belgium,Biography,Faulder,France,Honours,Lendrum,Mesopotamia,On This Day,Petrie,Status: Complete,Steinthal,Willett,Williamson — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , — David @ 8:17 pm

One hundred years on it is hard to imagine the impact of the Armistice. I was too young to discuss it with any of my relatives who survived the war. I imagine amidst the celebrations there would have been a sad reckoning.
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26 April, 2018

On this Day 100 years ago: Harold Faulder; Killed in Action

Filed under: 1914-18 WW1,Belgium,Biography,Faulder,On This Day,Status: Complete,Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , — David @ 12:03 am

On this day 100 years ago (26th April 1918) my Grandfather, Harold Faulder, climbed out of a trench near Ypres leading his company across no man’s land towards the German lines. He did not return and his body was never recovered.

A previous post had detailed his career. Today I am looking at what we know about the night of 25th/26th April and the early morning of 26th April 1918. (more…)

1 April, 2018

William Blizard Williamson of Cork

Filed under: - 1837,1837-1911,1861-65 ACW,Biography,England,Genealogy,Ireland,Migration,Religion,Status: Update as Information Arises,Tinplate Industry,Uncategorized,United States,Williamson — Tags: , , , , , — David @ 8:00 pm

One of my brick walls has been William Blizard Williamson and his family;

  • His wife Elizabeth (maiden name unknown) and
  • His sons William Blizard and George Henry.

George Henry was the father of Elizabeth Ann Willett who with her husband Everard William Willett adopted my mother, which makes William Blizard Williamson (senior) my Great Great Grandfather (by adoption).

This posts summarises what is and is not known about this family and what can be done to break down this brick wall! Essentially we know little about their Irish life or of their ancestors in Ireland.

(It was initially published on 24 December 2016 and updated 1 April 2018 and 3 August 2021.)

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20 November, 2017

A remarkable but tragic coincidence

Filed under: 1914-18 WW1,France,Genealogy,Status: Complete,Uncategorized,Willett — Tags: , , , , , , , — David @ 8:50 pm

Elsewhere I have written about Wilfred Willett and how his wife rescued him when he was left for near-dead in a Base Hospital in Boulogne. He had been injured on 13 December 1914 when crawling out into no-mans land to assist one of his men who had been shot.

I now read of an incident involving his brother Lewis Willett. It caught my eye because my mother was adopted by a Willett and was consequently a cousin once removed of Wilfred and Lewis. (more…)

27 May, 2017

Identifying the Fells at Huddersfield

Filed under: 1837-1911,Canada,Crowther,England,Fell,Lendrum,Photographs,Status: Update as Information Arises — Tags: , , , , , — David @ 5:25 pm

Family of Robert & Martha Fell

Family of Robert & Martha Fell at Somerville, Huddersfield

I came across a photograph believed to be of the Fell Family. A count of the people was consistent with Robert Fell and his wife Martha (née Keighley) and their children and the spouses of those children.¹

Robert and Martha had eleven children – all of whom are believed to have outlived their parents. Eight of them married.

Three faces have been pasted (old fashioned scissors and paste!) into the picture* – the two characters directly behind Robert Fell and another standing at the back on the left. * Or more accurately the negative – my print is a single sheet without pastings. (more…)

16 December, 2016

Will: Samuel Williamson of Cork

Filed under: 1837-1911,Estate Administration,Ireland,Status: Complete,Tinplate Industry,Williamson — Tags: , , , , , — David @ 2:46 pm

Below is my attempt at transcribing the will of Samuel Williamson of Cork (1808-1872) as found in the Original Will Registers 1858-1920 on Find My Past

It is a key document for working out the family tree of the Williamsons of Cork.
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