- Website migrated to the WordPress Content Management System
- Genealogy data imported from Family Historian software – structured data for over 3,500 individuals is now available to view!
Author: Alan Ray-Jones
Website Updates
- Broken links renewed for Edward Eade and Tony Ray-Jones (the National Museum of Photography is now the National Media Museum). My uncle Jack Pearce died in 2006; and some of us have moved or are doing different things – see below.
Website Updates
- Link to political blog removed after I deleted the blog, and link added to Tony’s photos at the National Museum of Photography, which is now selling them at various sizes up to A2.
Website Updates
- Photograph of my father Raymond substituted for the one of my brother Tony on the Home Page. The links to the Forum (Bulletin Board), and to some photos of Prague and Round the World removed. More minor updating
Website Updates
- Simon’s page removed. Minor updating. Photograph of Tony substituted for the one of great grandmother Euphemia Isabella on the Home Page
Website Updates
- My email address changed, link added to Tony R-J exhibition at NMPFT, Bradford
Golden wedding, July 2003
On Sunday 27 July we celebrated our Golden Wedding with a dinner at Carsington Visitor Centre – by the lake, between Ashbourne and Wirksworth in Derbyshire. Almost fifty people came, including all our children and grandchildren, and many friends. It was a wonderful and memorable occasion, and we stayed in Carsington for the whole of the following week, ending with an evening at the Mikado, in the Opera House at Buxton! Click here for some photos. We asked everyone at the dinner to contribute to an ox and cart for Africa, and they achieved it, so somewhere in Mozambique, probably in the province of Nampula, there is a useful memorial to our Golden Wedding. This is where some of the country’s poorest people live. World Vision have a programme at Murima, where there is a farming community, about 300 kilometres from the city of Nampula. You can find out more about the situation in Mozambique on the World Vision website at www.worldvision.org.uk. Thank-you, everyone.
Website Updates
- I have done some general tidying-up on the Edward Holroyd Pearce and Welcher pages, deleted the information about how to get to Carsington Water etc, and put up some photos of the Golden Wedding – see below.
- Simon’s page really can be accessed from his name in the chart below now!
- The Dant Family website no longer exists, so I have deleted the link.
- In his book “Sketch of the Military Services of Lieutenant-General Skinner and his Sons”, which he dedicated to his mother Ann Maclean, Allan Maclean Skinner wrote, “Born December 12th 1773, at Ardgour House, Argyleshire, …………. your father residing there, as guardian of the person and estates of his hereditary chieftain, and near kinsman, (the late Colonel Alexander Maclean, 13th of Ardgour, then an infant,) under the expressive local title of Factor Mohr, or the great manager, you…………..”. I had wondered what exactly was the relationship of Ann Maclean’s family to the Macleans of Ardgour, and have found, thanks to an American researcher of the Macleans who found this web site, that Ann and her siblings were the great-grandchildren, through their mother, of Allan Maclean of Ardgour, and his wife Ann Cameron, daughter of Sir Ewen Cameron. So Ann was a second cousin of baby Alexander, her mother Florance being a first cousin of his father Hugh Maclean of Ardgour.
Website Updates
- I have added a page on Jack Pearce, my mother’s youngest brother, thirteen years her junior, now aged 90. Go to Pearce and click on his name – or just click here.
- Simon’s page can be accessed from his name below. Should I make links from any other names on the chart below?
- News and chat is now given in the Forum (password protected)..
- More stories have been added to the stories page, for 1100, 1616, 1649, 1810, 1944, 1982 and 1989. More to come! Click on the ‘Ancestors, stories’ link on the right, then click anywhere on the precis of the story.
- All the info about the Golden Wedding can be accessed here.
- I have added information to the Welcher page (link on the right) about Winifred Welcher’s mother, who was born Anna Elizabeth Dant, and the Dant family.
Family Chart
Alan & Elizabeth, in Devon and London |
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(1) Sue; & Malcolm, in Yorkshire & Suffolk | (2) Johnny | (3) Mike; & Melissa, in Nottinghamshire | (4) Meriel; & Simon, in Somerset |
Jenny |
Mark (Son of Carol, in London) | Simon | Colin |
Anthony | Orion (Son of Carol, in New York) | Helen | Paul |
Tai (Son of Carol, in California) | Matthew |