T Shaw Safe Researching Thomas Shaw Safe gave me an insight into the glitz and glamour of America in the early 20th century, but I jump...

W S Batten Pooll Walter Stewart Batten Pooll was the second child of 5 born to Robert Pool Henry Batten-Pooll and Sophia Frederica...

Olga Georgina M Pryce Olga was the youngest daughter of Edward Stisted Mostyn Pryce and Henrietta Mary Beauclerk. Edward and Henrietta...

Champion A Branfill Sometimes when one is trying to decipher handwriting, you see words but think “that can’t be right”……..in this case,...

Joan Long Millesaintes Laura Joan Long was the youngest child and third daughter of Robert Chaloner Critchley Long and Maud Felicia...

HDB Heywood Henry De La Poer Beresford Heywood was born in 1855 to Colonel Thomas Heywood and his first wife Mary Emily Beresford. Mary...

Thomas Stamford Raffles When I saw the signature of this person, I immediately thought of E. W. Hornung's 'Gentleman Thief' called...

Muriel Swetenham Perhaps no pig slogans appealed to Muriel when she signed her pig in the guestbook, or maybe she was left handed and...

Offie Gwatkin We met Offie's brother in an earlier post https://www.apigintime.net/post/there-s-a-destiny-that-shapes-our-pigs-rough-hew-...

Lena Miller This signature challenged me greatly – I had worked out that the first name was Lena, but couldn’t fathom what the surname...

Mildred Scobell Harriet Mildred Vaughan Willes-Johnson was the second daughter of Captain John Samuel Willes-Johnson and his third wife...

Any person who has ever done family research will be familiar with the ubiquitous brick walls, when it seems that there is no way to work...

H Ernest Hutchinson Solving the puzzle of who H Ernest Hutchinson was, was only solved when I stumbled across a reference in an article...

Eric Gilbey Eric was born on 27th December 1888, the second son of Henry Walter Gilbey (known as Walter) and his wife Isabella, nee...

Crawford G Logan Crawford Glegg Logan was the son of Edward and Emily Logan (nee Townshend) who had 11 children with 7 of them still...

Thomas Maitland Lovett Thomas Maitland Lovett appears twice in the (very rough and ready!) family tree that I have drawn up to help work...

Godfrey P Collins Or to be more precise, Sir Godfrey Pattison Collins, KBE, CMG, MP. Yes, the man has his own wiki page (Godfrey Collins...

Lionel S Battye Lionel Richard James Schofield Battye was born in 1867, the eldest child of Richard and Frances Battye. Richard was the...

Robert Gwatkin Robert’s story is the hardest one so far that I have had to write. I don’t feel that his story is complete yet, so I...

Frederick Warren Dillow was born in Kington to Alfred and Annie Dillow, the second of five children (three of whom survived into...