Category: QUISSUM a Genealogical Blog
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How My Parents Met
Tomorrow is my mum and dad’s 45th wedding anniversary, and as I’ve previously concentrated on ancestors further back in my family tree, I thought this was the perfect opportunity to tell a more recent story – How My Parents Met. Wendy Perry was born in Wanstead Hospital in 1955. The family moved from Forest Gate…
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My Genealogy Alphabet Part 3
So we have come to the third and final part of my Genealogy Alphabet. If you haven’t read the first instalments, you can catch part 1 here, and part 2 here. Q-Z has been rather challenging, but the rich and abundant genealogical resources have delivered. Q is for Quit Rentals. When manorial tenants owed services…
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My Genealogy Alphabet Part 2
Here is the second instalment of my Genealogy Alphabet. Part 1 discussed genealogically valuable records from A-H. In part 2 of this blog, I look at collections from I-P. If you haven’t read Part 1, you can find it here. Now, let’s continue: I is for Inventories. As mentioned in Administration Act Books, Inventories are…
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My Genealogy Alphabet Part 1
Happy New Year! A time for new beginnings, and as the great Julie Andrews once said “Let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start. When you read you begin with A-B-C…….” So, I would like to kick-off 2022 with the first of a three-part blog : my Genealogy Alphabet. Here is…
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Christmas Memories
Growing up, I was surrounded by family. We would visit grandparents every Saturday, and my Godparents on occasional Sundays (when my dad would stop off to buy some shellfish for our supper that evening). It seemed like there was a birthday party every other week for one of my many cousins, and each Christmas (my…
