Author Archives: Bobbie Edes

Digging deeper into the Neville family; my brick wall.

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Often in family history genealogists need to widen their search to find the ultimate goal, how to reach that one generation further back. This blog covers my processes in this task, a search which has been my mission on and off for many years. I ended my last roundup of the Nevill/Neville family with Thomas and Mary (previously Ward) who were married at St Marys, Henley on Thames on 25 August 1756 after Banns from 8 August that year. Detectives … Continue reading

The Neville family myth. False, true or maybe?

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Many researchers have discovered that one of the joys of being a blogger is the revision you may need to do while in the writing process, due to having researched the person prior to the age of online genealogy sites. There is a vast difference between scrolling a microfilm through a particular parish in a county and doing a wide search on the various sites. Gosh, these days we can even add wild-cards, extended periods to search and various counties … Continue reading

My Grandma Irvine: Lills Life and her autograph book.

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Inately proud of her extended family, Lill kept in regular contact with her extended family and friends. How do I know this, you may well ask? Primarily through her marriage, which came about through meeting her future husband while visiting interstate family on both her mother & father’s sides. Then there is that little book collected by many a young girl in the past, their autograph book. I have a copy of Lill’s little book, but more on that later. … Continue reading

Daily Life of a Railway Blacksmith. Reserves, Chooks, Work & Family.

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Twenty years ago, it was a surprise to learn of the existence of a diary written by my great-grandfather William White between 1894 – 1904. One of his grandsons, Alan kindly offered to loan the diary to me so that I could transcribe it and include this insight into their family life in my book on the White family. Many thanks for that Alan. In transcribing the diary which is notated on 146 pages of an ordinary exercise book with … Continue reading

Researching the Whites of Bletchingley and Godstone in Surrey.

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As White was my paternal grandmother’s maiden name, it was a family that I researched very early in my ‘addiction’. This was in the 1990s, so genealogy records were not online and research was usually done using printed records, maps, lists and books. My husband and I began by frequenting the State Library of Queensland (SLQ) and going through their holdings and taking advice from the librarians there. One of the handy books at SLQ was the Genealogical Research Directory … Continue reading