Speaker: Janet Few Delivered in period costume describing cooking, cleaning, the making and laundering of clothes, maintaining the garden and the many other tasks of the Stuart housewife. Our Stuart female ancestors may be people we can identify, or they may be lurking, nameless, waiting to be discovered. In either case they existed, therefore we … Read More

Speaker: Jean Renwick When Elizabeth Addy died in 1849, her grieving husband commemorated her life with a mourning brooch. In The Mourning Brooch Book One An ending. A beginning we learnt how her two young daughters grew up in Yorkshire and married. In The Mourning Brooch Book Two Moving on, this much-loved saga continues and … Read More

Speaker: Julie Goucher Exploring the fascinating subject of surnames – types, geographical spread, why genealogists begin surname research & how to and why build a surname project.