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Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Mary Ann Whatmore’s great grandparents - Joseph and Elizabeth Dyson

Ordinary folk, unless they were criminals, left few traces in historical records. It is therefore difficult to find out much about Joseph and Elizabeth Dyson who were the great grandparents of Mary Ann Whatmore, my grandmother.  Joseph and Elizabeth were my own great x 3 grandparents.
I would like to thank very much Alice Kern, President, […]

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Friday, October 2nd, 2009

Dr. Isaac Watmough of Pockington, Yorkshire

For the son of a gamekeeper to become a doctor in the early nineteenth century was most unusual and this makes Isaac Watmough, who was a doctor at Pockington, of great interest.
In writing this post I have made a great deal of use of the information placed on the ancestry website by Alvina Greg. I […]

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