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New Irish FH Website

admin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:57:27 +0000

The Irish Family History Foundation’s county genealogy centres provide Ireland’s largest genealogical research service, both online and via commissioned research services. They would like to welcome...

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l’assistance française a exigé

admin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:42:02 +0000

Nous avons une demande d’un de nos lecteurs qui demandent quelque assistance. Il essaie d’obtenir une photographie d’une tombe au St. Couper l’Extension de Cemetary, Rouen,...

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French assistance required

admin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:28:27 +0000

We have a request from one of our readers asking for some assistance. He is trying to obtain a photograph of a grave at St. Sever Cemetary Extension, Rouen, France. The grave belongs to Gnr. Moxey...

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Wellington Pit memorial

admin — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:16:34 +0000

A memorial is erected a hundred years after a fatal explosion at Wellington Pit in Whitehaven. High on the cliff tops overlooking Whitehaven town stood the public face of Wellington Pit. Below and...

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Bewcastle Memorials

admin — Sat, 15 May 2010 15:18:23 +0000

The monument inscriptions from the graveyard of St. Cuthbert’s, Bewcastle in Cumbria, is a valuable resource to all those researching their border roots. A full description of each grave,...

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Thomas Addison M.D.

admin — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 08:57:41 +0000

Thomas Addison M.D. was one of the great medical physicians of the 19th Century. His grave lies sheltered beneath the great yew tree at Lanercost Priory. Born on 2nd April 1793 in Longbenton, near...

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Li Yuan Chia, Artist

admin — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 20:08:15 +0000

Lanercost priory is the resting place of Li Yuan Chia, a modern artist from China who made his home in the Village of Bankside on Hadrian’s Wall in Cumbria. One of the first significant modern...

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Poets’ Graves website

admin — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:12:53 +0000

Poets’ Graves is an on-line database of the last resting places of poets. The site is regularly archived by the British Library so that it remains available to future researchers. This UK...

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Remembering Fromelles

admin — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:17:37 +0000

In 2008 a number of burial pits dating from the First World War were identified at Fromelles in northern France. Archaeologists began to excavate the pits in May 2009 and by early September they had...

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Rickerby War Memorial, Carlisle

admin — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:11:56 +0000

Situated to the North of Carlisle City centre is Rickerby Park, purchased shortly after World War I as a memorial to the fallen. Rickerby Park, which runs alongside the River Eden, once formed part...

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