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By Roz, on February 17th, 2010 Sadly, I have to report the death of my last remaining grandparent, Thomas Henry Brown Shaw (Harry to his friends), just a few weeks ago on 6th February 2010. I ummed and ahhed about posting about such an immensely personal event, but in today’s world, the Daily Telegraph Notice is online for all to see and I felt that I would be doing a disservice to grandad not to talk about him. Rather than write about him myself, however, I think it is best to let Harry’s own words do the talking.
. . . → Read More: Harry: In His Own Words
By Roz, on February 12th, 2010  My great grandfather Ernest Alfred Bird was born on 26 July 1888 in Lambeth, London, and died on 23 October 1944 in Bradford, West Yorkshire.
He was the youngest son of Alfred Bird and Emma Sharp and lived in the London borough of Lambeth. On 6 November 1915 he married my great grandmother Elsie Lena Moore at St John the Divine in Kennington. According to the marriage certificate the marriage was witnessed by Ernest’s brother Arthur and also by one of his sisters, Hilda. Elsie’s witness was . . . → Read More: Ernest Alfred Bird (1888-1944)
By Roz, on February 9th, 2010 Taking a break from the NLA website (on the advice of my optician) I began re-investigating the other Inglis family; namely the ancestors and siblings of Jessie Anne Inglis, who married Alexander Brand Inglis.
Wanting to be thorough I revisited the FIBIS website to add sources for the data I have collected so far. FIBIS (Families in British India) was my first port of call, as the Inglis family, both Jessie’s and Alexander’s in fact, seemed to be drawn to the Indian subcontinent during the 1800s.
. . . → Read More: The British in India
By Roz, on February 8th, 2010 I’ve spent the past couple of days hunched up in front of my laptop squinting at blurry text from the late 1800s. But it’s worth it.
The NLA Australian Newspaper Archive is a brilliant website (as is Papers Past, the New Zealand equivalent) that has simply offered up its entire historic archive (from 1803 to 1954) to view, free of charge.
. . . → Read More: National Library of Australia: Australian Newspapers Archive
By Roz, on February 7th, 2010  The above gentleman is not a direct ancestor of mine, but he was the second husband of my ggg grandmother Louisa Maria Loveday. (My ggg grandfather Captain John Inglis was born in 1805 -we think in Midlothian- and died in India in 1849)
After Captain Inglis’ death Louisa and her children moved to Edinburgh. In 1853-54 Louisa and John Pourie met and fell in love, (after mutual intercessionary prayers and a great deal of soul searching, the book would have us believe) and became engaged . . . → Read More: The Rev. John Pourie (1825-1867)
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