There are some people in this world who, after they have gone, will leave behind bright, blazing pathways for researchers like myself to follow. At every turn there will be information of some kind and their lives are slowly plumped up from being simply birth, death and marriage records to something that is all encompassing. …
When I first started researching my Mum’s side of the family tree, I literally had nothing. While my Dad’s side was well-known and readily available to me, my Mum’s side was constantly veiled in mystery. Breathing some life into those branches took a lot of time, patience, persistence and, as usual, money. The Nicholson side …
Written in honour of Valentine’s Day. The early death of William Nicholson on 17 February 1945 suddenly left the Nicholson family without their principal breadwinner. Perhaps concerned about their situation and needing a place to live, his wife Jessie and her four young children (including my Pop, Reece) eventually moved to William’s Aunty’s house in …
Finding Family 