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  • THE GALLANT SOMERSETS

    THE GALLANT SOMERSETS

    It was an article about Archibald Miles in the Bath Chronicle just ten weeks after the start of the “Great War” that initially attracted Frances Nelson’s attention. During the four-year conflict, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire (the Central Powers) fought against Great Britain & its Empire, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Canada, Japan and the… Read more

  • WSR HAMBLY RETURNS TO THE USA IN 1876

    WSR HAMBLY RETURNS TO THE USA IN 1876

    WILLIAM SAMUEL RAWLINGS HAMBLY 31st March 1823 ~ 1st December 1898 WSR Hambly sailed from San Francisco on the 29th September 1853 on the “Destruzione”, a 238-ton Italian barque captained by a Genoese, Giacormo Gazzolo. The “Destruzione” with a crew of 13 carried 48 adult passengers & 6 children and sailed via Tahiti to Sydney, arriving on December… Read more

  • HARRY BISHOP HAMBLY

    HARRY BISHOP HAMBLY

    Harry Bishop Hambly: born 18 April 1863 at Snake Lake, near Quincy in Plumas County California, the 7thchild of David Hambly and Jane (Jenkin) Hambly who were both immigrants from Cornwall. Harry married Nyna Emma Sargent (1870-1956) on September 7th 1892 in San Francisco. They had four children, three sons and a daughter and lived in… Read more

  • MILES FROM SOMERSET

    MILES FROM SOMERSET

    On April 25th, 1854, the good ship “Marshall Bennett” carrying 180 persons, all assisted immigrants and their families, sailed from Southampton, the large port on the Solent in Hampshire, to Geelong, the major migrant port inside Port Philip Bay, Victoria. The trip took 109 days, landing on the 11th of August 1854. One family on… Read more

  • TWERTON: PORK, ALE and CAVALRY

    TWERTON: PORK, ALE and CAVALRY

    A story from the 20th September 1835 newspaper, The Bath Chronicle, reported a burial with military honours at Twerton commencing at 5 o’clock: “it is calculated upwards of 7,000 spectators were present.” The funeral, for Mr. Daniel Miles, of the Bath Troop of North Somerset Yeomanry Cavalry, started from the George Inn where Daniel had lived and… Read more

  • ARRIVEDERCI ITALIANO ASCENDENZA!

    ARRIVEDERCI ITALIANO ASCENDENZA!

    My mother’s maiden name was Juli Vacchini; her father’s name was Caleb Hutton Vacchini; her grandfather’s name was Caleb Francis Vacchini and her great grandfather’s name was John Vacchini. Everyone except John was born in NSW, Australia. Juli put her recollections of her family onto paper around the year 2000 and called it “Family Matters”.… Read more