miles of irvings

Alice Hoatson born about March 1859 in Halifax, Yorkshire England and died in December 1944 at Edmonton, Middlesex England. Alice was a niece of the Reverend George Hoatson, Vicki’s 2nd Great Grandfather, making her Vicki’s 1st cousin 3 X removed. Alice, the sixth child of Joseph Cockin Hoatson and Ruth Smith was only four when her father… Read more

This is the story of “The Sign of the Windmill” a pub in Lambeth that Roger’s ancestors were closely linked, about a block from the Thames and still operating today.  In September 2016 we based the London part of our England/Scotland trip at The Vauxhall Suites, apartments across the Thames from the Tate gallery (Vicki’s… Read more

Rosemary Crook is another cousin of ours with a great Ancestry Tree “Lovesey Family Tree”. She is also a descendant from my 4th Great Grandparents, David Hambly and Mary Sandoe, through a Londoner, Thomas Lovesey who married Elizabeth Hambly (my 3rd Great Grandfather John Hambly’s older sister) in 1813. Thomas Lovesey was in business with… Read more

William Samuel Rawling Hambly: born on 31st March 1823 in Kenwyn, just outside Truro in Cornwall; died 1stDecember in Ballarat, Victoria. “WSR” is Roger’s 2nd Great Grandfather. WSR the 2nd child of John Hambly and Mary Ann Rawling Trudgeon, born in Kenwyn, just outside Truro was like the most of his family a truly remarkable man who lived in… Read more

John Laurence Hendrickson.  Vicki’s 3rd great Grandfather.  Born on Nevis, British West Indies about 1808 and died in Stawell, Victoria on 1st April 1879. Between us we have a good smattering of convicts, religious ministers, rogues, soldiers, saints, fossickers, horsemen and pioneers. We are continually in awe and amazed at the resilience and determination of our ancestors… Read more

How did a mining captain’s son from Cornwall end up on the Ballarat gold fields of the 1850’s before importing boots from his brother-in-law’s factory in Devon? Thomas Edward Miles, born in 1809 was a Welsh blacksmith from Upper Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales; he married Ann Jones, born in 1814 in Merthyr Tydfil in 1835… Read more