A Smith Family Story

It has been a while. Ok, it has been a long while. I've been busy making memories rather than writing about them. I've also picked off all the low hanging fruit, so it is taking longer to finish family history stories. I have been working away at updating my Smith family story A Family of Shopkeepers. Not the easiest to untangle, especially in London and although much of the research was already done, there have been plenty of loose ends to tie up, as well as having yet another go at pushing back a further generation, with some success. Part 1 is there for you. This is the start of the story, where the family are Thames watermen at Ham, near Kingston, in the eighteenth century; I promise retail comes into it, as well as an interesting potential connection.

I've also added a page on my hobbies and how I have spent my leisure time as an adult to the Memories section. That will probably be the last of the memories. I do have one more topic to finish but it would need too many redactions to put online.

All Saints Church, Kingston Image by Hellodavy1902 via Wikimedia Commons

The Story of a Great Grandmother and some Holiday Memories

This month there are two new additions to Granny's Tales. First, there are memories of holidays up until 1993. You can read these here. Then there is the story of my great grandmother, Fanny Thomasine Bishop, who was born in Cornwall but who later moved to Plymouth. Her life was laced with tragedy, with seven of her ten children dying in infancy but it is a story that deserves to be told. Scroll down on this page for the link to her story.

New Year and New Additions

This month's additions to Granny's Tales include the next installment of the Howe Family Story, taking them from rural Buckinghamshire south

London and elsewhere. I have also popped an item about historic games to the Treasures collection.

I have now used more than 70% of the available pages. I think that gives me another year before I will have to work out how to keep adding more family history, heirloom stories and memories. There are options, none of which are perfect but I will choose the least worst one and continue to add more information.