My Ancestors

Deborah Harvey : The Red Dress of Poetry ...: Bristol Poetry Festival so far and a visit to Well... : The Bristol Poetry Festival is gallopi...

In the 1790's Stephen Bevan was born. More than that I cannot say about his origins. He is a brick wall ancestor. Stephen was alive un...

This may strike you, as a far cry from my usual posts about villeins, vicars, heroes and other such family tree members, but it is just as i...

There is an old saying, "You can choose your friends, not your family" - Today that really didn't work for me, as one pe...

On the afternoon of March 31st in the year 1876, a sleepy little village on the outskirts of Bristol was almost home to a tragedy on a large...

"Out flew the web and floated wide- The mirror crack'd from side to side; "The curse is come upon me," cried The L...

From what I can glean, Posthumous Bush b. c 1676 in Bristol was my 8th great grandfather. He lived to be more than 90, which was a Methusela...