Pierre Marie Jean Baptiste Gosselin – born 1885

On this day 26th June 1885 (126 years ago), my great grandfather Pierre Marie Jean Baptiste Gosselin was born in … More

Henry Rabet marries Florence Gallienne

On this day 23rd June 1924 my great grandparents Henry Yves Rabet and Florence Anna Gallienne were married in the … More

On the 9th May 1945 members of my family living in Jersey, Channel Islands, experienced something I have been fortunate … More

Seventy eight years ago today, on the 20th April 1933 my great grandmother Florence Anna Gallienne (sitting at the top) … More

Yesterday a reader identified the person in the photo below from my selection of photos on my Mystery people & … More

On this day, 30th March in 1899, the passenger ferry SS Stella sank within minutes of crashing into rocks on … More

In a previous post I wrote about Another Ancestor in Australia. I had come across in a record for the … More

I have mentioned only once before a Francois Demoy. He is living as a ‘boarder’ with my great great grandparents … More

I have just come across this piece of information from the http://www.jerseyweekly.com about children in St. Martins School, Jersey having … More

I have been back to Jersey for the Christmas holidays, partly to see family and friends I hadn’t seen for … More