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Articles is the place where you will find all of my posts, including everything and anything that doesn’t fall into any other category – history, gardening, recipes, walks… things that interest, amuse and captivate my butterfly brain.
Busy moving house and completely reshaping my life at the moment, hence it has been very quiet on here for a while. I am not sure where this new direction is headed just yet, all I know for certain is that I have never, ever been happier in my entire life than I am right …
My last post was back in April when I did a free book give away to celebrate my recovery from Covid... oh,how naive of me -- little did I know that I would have many, many more weeks of relapses and horrible post-Covid symptoms to suffer! But, ho-hum here I am several weeks on and …
To celebrate winning a rather nasty battle with the Covid -19 bug, which knocked me off my feet for a month and brought me rather closer to my maker than I had planned just yet, I am giving all my novels away for free on Amazon Kindle for the next 5 days. So, wherever you …
The second of my articles on my Ross bloodline. Up until now my genealogy articles on the Ross clan have been working backwards through the family line. In this one I am going to reverse that order, taking you right back to the very beginning of the clan Ross, then work forward to join up …
Remember, remember the 5th of November,The gunpowder treason and plot!I know of no reasonWhy the gunpowder treasonShould ever be forgot. In the early hours of the 5th of November 1605, the royal guard apprehended a man acting suspiciously in a cellar beneath the Houses of Parliament. Upon being challenged he declared his name to be …
Continue reading "REMEMBER, REMEMBER THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER – The Case For Catesby"
This is the first in a two part set of articles on the noble origins of the Ross lineage of myself and my blood relatives of this line. It has taken many, many hours of very hard detective work to piece this line together. I have not only taken evidence from the usual ancestral sources, …
Continue reading "John Ross 1806-1878 & Duncan Ross 1781-1861"
I am an independent, self-publishing author and extremely proud to be so. Once upon a time, self-publishing held a bit of a stigma, but with modern technology enabling authors to DIY, why wouldn’t we seek to take complete control of our art? Apart from a few short stories and articles that I have had published …
Following on from my last genealogy post about my great-grandmother, Barbara Ross, this blog is about her parents, my great-great grandparents, William Ross and Barbara Hogg. William Ross was born in the ancient fishing port of Nairn, in Scotland on the 13th of June 1859, the illegitimate son of Elizabeth Ross, who preferred to go …
Continue reading "William Ross 1859 – 1902 & Barbara Hogg 1862 – 1937"
When a person begins to research their family tree they have to be prepared to uncover things they might be uncomfortable with, the proverbial skeleton in the closet. Long-held family traditions and legends may flounder on the hidden rocks of fact, and Titanic sized tales will often be sunk by torpedoes of truth. Even in …
I have been researching my family tree since 2000 (according to my profile on Ancestry, I had no idea it had been so long!) As you can imagine, during this time I have accumulated a huge amount of information about my ancestors. Within these blogs I aim to share the tales of my ancestors, especially …
