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