Category Archives: Wiltshire
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Following the Blackfords
Leave a commentAugust 8, 2021 by auntkatefirmin
This post contains my musings about the expectations that our ancestors always stay in one spot. Cousin Liz has done …
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Blackford Family Ties
3February 9, 2021 by auntkatefirmin
This is another post that takes a look at distances – in 1710 how likely was it that a modestly …
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The family of Thomas Jacket
10June 9, 2020 by auntkatefirmin
As a follow up to the research on Frisweth (Maslin) Jacket I am taking another look at her immediate family, …
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Back to Badbury
2February 23, 2018 by auntkatefirmin
Dorothy (Seymour) Blackford was baptized in Chiseldon and born in the hamlet of Badbury. Dorothy’s aunt Elizabeth (Seymour) Gibbons lived …
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Whaight? Really?
Leave a commentNovember 20, 2017 by auntkatefirmin
Let’s be honest, everyone has experienced that moment of looking and an index or a document and saying – What? …
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Local tastes
5August 5, 2017 by auntkatefirmin
I had the good fortune to taste some local honey the other day. The flavor of fireweed honey was simply …
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What is a yeoman?
Leave a commentJuly 11, 2015 by auntkatefirmin
For some time I’ve been trying to get a handle on the term “yeoman.” Certainly it is possible to get …
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