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Born in the Shadow of War: Peter Dudley Fellowes Flavelle

January 15, 2022

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New House, New Challenge - 'Copperfield,' Tiverton

October 01, 2017

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Relocation, Relocation, Relocation...

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Agricultural Boom and Bust: The Rise and Fall of the Littlefair Family

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The real outlanders? The Christie Family, United Empire Loyalists and Highland Clearances

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A 'Rice' Conundrum

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Sally Flavell c.1925

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New House, New Challenge - 'Copperfield,' Tiverton

New House, New Challenge... 'Copperfield', Tiverton Moving to a new house last month has opened up new exciting genealogical opportunities. 'Copperfield' is an old Victorian style villa built in 1890 near the canal in Tiverton, Devon and I have been eagerly trying to find out more about the previous occupants of the house. It has a very friendly ambience and I hoped that this was reflected in its past ownership. After a lot of frustrating digging, I have discovered a wealth of interesting detail about its past owners, which has a distinctly international proclivity. It seems apt, that Levi and I should continue this tradition in taking the house on. ‘I just can’t find it, Levi!’ My initial attempts to find out a bit more about the house were hampered by the fact that late-Victorian and Edwardian road names and numbers are very different to today. In fact, once outside the centre of Tiverton, there are no real road names, just the names of ...

Relocation, Relocation, Relocation...

It is hard to believe that it is nearly a year and a half since I started this blog. It has provided a great deal of enjoyment and a way of showcasing my research. I have also managed to get an article published as a result of it (in Carloviana 2017) and it has added another level to my A-Level History teaching this past year (Industrialisation and Social Change: 1769-1928). However, after a number of frustrating months, I have made the decision to move the blog's host to Blogger. Though aesthetically pleasing, I was finding Weebly to be quite clunky, with no way of easily locating past posts, and the name I chose (Ex Familia Fortitudo - Through Family - Strength) was proving difficult for even myself to remember. Blogger, on the other hand has suited me well in the past (my blog http://westernweeds.blogspot.co.uk/ was run out of it as was my old school archive blog http://maynardarchives.blogspot.co.uk/ ) - and I like the easy navigation and more detailed viewer statist...

The Victorian Child - A Family Story (Part 1)

The idealised view of victorian children Introduction Recently I was just browsing through an 1851 census return for one of my ancestors, and was struck by something that took me a little by surprise. There was my 4 x great grandfather, a stone miner, and his elder sons all in their twenties – also stone miners. Nothing particularly interesting there. But then the youngest son, Benjamin, who was only 12 was also a stone miner. And I thought, hang on a minute, did I, or did I not learn in school that the 1842 Mines Act prohibited children and women from working in mines? So I quickly googled it, and found that I had only half remembered the details. The law did indeed prevent children from working below ground in mines – but only if they were under ten. So, Benjamin being a 12 year old stone miner in 1851 was perfectly legal. Child miners pre-1842 And so this got me thinking. I have to teach attitudes towards children during th...

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