A West Country Family

We have had a number of visitors to the website from Germany in the last couple of months – it would be good to hear who they are and what they are looking for! Is there a branch of one of the families we don’t know about living in Germany?

Some nice random finds which illustrate the extent of sea-going transport between London and Devon in the mid nineteenth century. pic.twitter.com/F5Dv7zs9Yz — Devon Archives (@DevonHeritage) April 28, 2021

In a recent Andrew family chat we discussed teatime rules – Freda Andrew’s rule was that you should eat a slice of bread and butter before, and between each piece of cake. Joyce Norrish was a bit more flexible and jam was allowed on the bread. What were your rules… Continue reading →

https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/devon-dialect-john-sheep-cattle-pony-trade

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=14.460711263503965&lat=51.03820&lon=-3.36399&layers=1&right=BingHyb

https://thejournalofantiquities.com/2020/06/04/the-tarr-steps-exmoor-national-park-somerset-england/ Interesting page on the history of the steps.

We have had a couple of discussions about previous pandemics, and mostly in terms of Spanish flu, this takes it back a bit further, it would be interesting to know how the westcountry responded to the Black Death etc. https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/pandemic-politics-during-the-renaissance/?s=09

One of the last times they got together – a family get together at Bray.