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Survivor of Ravensbruck: Stefania Ekner, nee Biegarczyk, 1921-2001

Family History research often leads to something entirely unexpected. In 2014, my first cousin Jack GREGORY was due to attain a milestone birthday. What to give a 90 year-old-man? The majority of us who...
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Bristol versus Napoleon

Below are lists of soldiers and sailors who: Survived and returned from the Peninsula Wars – ‘Some Came Home’ Were lost in battle, including an example of ‘friendly fire’ – ‘On Active Service’ Were...
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Killed in a Coalpit – Lives of the Kingswood Colliers. JUST WHEN YOU THINK THERE IS NOTHING MORE TO ADD…………

At the “Book Launch” at Kingswood Heritage Museum on 29 November 2016 Mr Roger Curtis who was at the event, sent me this picture (above) believed to be at Hanham Pit, showing his grandfather,...
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The Pillinger Family History in Four Volumes

How it all started for me! This is the history of the Pillinger Family that I began to unearth nearly 50 years ago when I stumbled across a gravestone in St Luke’s churchyard in...
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Killed in a Coalpit Volume III: The Bedminster Mines

Killed in a Coalpit, Bedminster’ is the second of my ‘Coalpit’ trilogy. It was compiled slightly ‘pot luck fashion’ before old newspapers were on line and therefore I am aware that there are many...
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A Victorian Girl

The Victorian Girl is the Cinderella story in reverse. Mary Britton, previously Leighton, was a dear old soul, who was “in Service’ in Downend from leaving school until her late marriage to Samuel Britton....
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The ‘Noble North’ and other Heroes: A Spectacular Rescue at Bedminster in 1851. A communal effort.

At 6 a.m. on Friday, the 20th June 1851, ‘a double turn’ (twice as many men as usual) descended Northside Pit, (Goulstone, Garrett & Co.) at Bedminster. The pit was 135 fathoms deep and...
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A Waterloo Veteran – John Hill

A headline on the Western Daily Press of 13.2.1875 reads: DEATH OF A VETERAN SOLDIER AT STAPLETON WORKHOUSE. A meeting of the Bristol Board of Guardians discussed the decease of John HILL, a Bristol...
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James Peters: The First Black Rugby player to represent England

Now that a breath taking Six Nations has drawn to a close I would like to shed some light on James Peters, the first black rugby player to represent England. It would be eighty...
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A visit to Apedale

On the way to Ireland in October 2018, I was given the option of choosing somewhere to stop on our way to the ferry. The “lads” my husband George and our son Kevin, had...
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