Marriages & maps

ANTHONY ADOLPH is a professional genealogist and the author of 11 books PAUL BLAKE is the author of Tracing Your Insolvent Ancestors KATHERINE COBB is a member of AGRA based in Somerset JAYNE SHRIMPTO

Poring over maps of Bolton, Ordnance Survey old and new, I’m wondering why my great-grandfather John Tonge and his family moved house quite so often. To help, I’ve drawn up a list, in date order, of a

Surname studies are not always the whole, or the easiest, answer to researching families. Most of us love to research the name we currently go by or were born with. But does that give us the complete

A classified advert published in the 15 August 1912 issue of weekly Australian news magazine The Bulletin reads, “Mrs C Skingley of No 1 Victoria Road, Oxney Green, Writtle near Chelmsford, England, w

ANTHONY ADOLPH is a professional genealogist and the author of 11 books KATHERINE COBB is a member of AGRA based in Somerset NICOLA MORRIS is a genealogist based in Dublin (timeline.ie) JAYNE SHRIMPTO

Bury-born actor Layton Williams, a familiar face from Strictly Come Dancing and BBC Three’s sitcom Bad Education, goes in search of his London roots in the latest series of WDYTYA?. If you also have L