Author Archives: digancestors

Millicent Gifford left a mining family in the Forest of Dean to work as a cook for a singer, composer and organiser of grand Elizabethan style pageants.

In 1867 Richard Talmer was charged with an ‘unnatural crime’ along with fellow workhouse inmate William Jennings.

A look at the dangers that fire presented to 19th century women, such as my ancestor Anne Benwell, whose dress caught fire in 1818.

In the 19th century, numerous women were injured and killed when their dresses caught fire, like my ancestor Eliza Maultby.

The life and career of George Read (1832-1919), a Detective Inspector with the Metropolitan Police Thames Division