A fire revealed an ancestors’ long-held secret. There were surprising revelations when a family history researcher discovered the secret of Peterboat Inn, which her innkeeping ancestors owned. What they had been up to for 300 years at the River Thames fishing village was finally exposed in a 150-year-old official forensic report on the blaze recently […]
A Samaritan sea captain saved my ancestor, a Russian Imperial Army draft dodger with Cossack bounty hunters hot on his trail. Great-grandfather Jacob escaped with his 12-year-old wife-to-be, Rachel and daughter Leah, a baby in arms not yet a year old. They arrived in England sometime in 1871. But it took a life-saving Samaritan act […]
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