Mary Sclater is one of those sidelines I became drawn into when looking for someone else. She was a first cousin of my great grandfather William H Slater (1845-1913), so my first cousin three times removed. As I’m still working on her, this week’s blog is very much a current state of research illustrating the | more…
Some weeks ago I wrote about Jemima Ross who died at sea between Sri Lanka and St Helena after giving birth to a son James. This week, he is my focus, under the #52 ancestors theme “So very far away”. James Bruce Birth His father George S Bruce was a master mariner and his mother | more…
Testament. Not the old and new but a collective name for all the documents to do with the administration of a dead person’s estate. It could include: an inventory of their moveable possessions (cash, bank accounts, farm stock, furniture for example) perhaps a will setting out who was to receive what. If so the documents | more…
