The Chiddicks Family Tree
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A family history blog. site telling the stories of my own family plus lots of good ideas and tips to help others who are researching their own family tree.
The Chiddicks Family Tree
5d ago
Killed in the Line of Duty Sapper John Perrins Service Number 1895467……….. John Perrins was born on 16 June 1916 in Bolton, one of seven children born to parents, John Thomas Perrins and Sarah Ann Hurst. The Perrins family had spent many years living in the Little Lever area of Bolton and came from a ..read more
The Chiddicks Family Tree
3w ago
Killed in the Line of Duty Sergeant Edward Joseph Greengrass Service Number 2210433……….. Edward Joseph Greengrass was born on 15 April 1907 in Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, the eldest of two children born to Edward William Greengrass and Elizabeth Augusta Jones. Edward and Elizabeth also had a daughter, Rose Elizabeth Greengrass who was born on ..read more
The Chiddicks Family Tree
1M ago
Something a little bit different from me this time……….whoever said history was boring? Somebody recently sent me a very interesting story regarding the origins of some well-known phrases associated with graveyards and burials and as you can imagine, this piqued my interest a little. I have more than a passing interest in the past and ..read more
The Chiddicks Family Tree
1M ago
On 17th August, 1940, six brave men from the Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal team sadly lost their lives trying to defuse a bomb in the fields around Nantwich in Cheshire, and this is their story……… Thanks to the work and knowledge of local historian, Andrew Lamberton, I was made aware of the story of the ..read more
The Chiddicks Family Tree
4M ago
William Chiddicks is my 1st Cousin 4 x removed and for whatever reason, he was not one of those ancestors that I was immediately drawn to. I had his Baptism record, he was baptised on 8th March 1835 in South Fambridge, Essex, I had his marriage record, he married Mary Ann Waite Watson on 18th ..read more
The Chiddicks Family Tree
5M ago
So that’s it for another year! In the blink of an eye, RootsTech2024 is over and as the dust settles, or should I say snow settles, let’s look back on the last three days and see what caught my eye. I should add at this point that I only attended the show on-line, sadly I ..read more
The Chiddicks Family Tree
5M ago
Whilst carrying out the research for the story of Adelaide Springett, see the link below, Who Was Adelaide Springett I discovered that Adelaide had lived at 12, Millers Court which I soon found out, held a grisly secret. Next door at number 13, Millers Court, Jack the Ripper murdered his fifth and last victim, Mary ..read more
The Chiddicks Family Tree
5M ago
Another iconic picture and another innocent life captured forever behind a lens, but who was the poor little girl whose life was perpetually framed in this picture and what was her story? The little girl in the picture was Adelaide Springett and she was captured in this beautiful photograph by Horace Warner who captioned the ..read more
The Chiddicks Family Tree
6M ago
You just never when you are going to stumble across a little piece of local history. On a recent visit to my local church of St. Mary’s in Nantwich I was fortunate enough to meet a gentleman who was the absolute font of all knowledge. The extremely kind man was able to recount and tell ..read more
The Chiddicks Family Tree
9M ago
RootsTech 2024 have just announced their first keynote speaker, president and founder of the Dred Scott Foundation and great-great-granddaughter of Dred and Harriet Scott, Lynne M Jackson. A remarkable woman, Lynne Jackson will take the RootsTech main stage on Friday March 1st 2024 and she will speak on the importance of remembering and connecting with ancestors ..read more