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Liz Craig

@willsmanonename.bsky.social

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Tracing my #FamilyHistory in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 & 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Passionate about #OnePlaceStudies, #LocalHistory & cats. Practicing my photography skills. Usually only follow history accounts! My websites & socials 👉🏻 https://linktr.ee/WillsmanOneNa

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Liz Craig @willsmanonename.bsky.social · Nov 10

My research interests: #StreetStudy of St Ronan’s Avenue in #Southsea
#OnePlaceStudies of #Sudbourne & The Temple Lodge Home for Inebriate Women in #Torquay
#OneNameStudy of Willsman & variants Welsman & Wellsman.
Interested in #genealogy, social history, medical history & women’s history
#GenHour

St Ronan’s Avenue at night, decked with red, white and blue bunting following a street party

Sudbourne church, with gravestones of the Keer and Raymer families in the foreground

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Liz Craig @willsmanonename.bsky.social · 5h

#31DaysOfGraves
Day 14: inside

A broken grave showing brick supports inside

Liz Craig @willsmanonename.bsky.social · 5h

Exciting day ahead! 2 new-to-me archives: The Wallace Collection & The British Library - both for my #OnePlaceStudy of #Sudbourne.
#OnePlaceStudies #LocalHistory

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Liz Craig @willsmanonename.bsky.social · 17h

The most interesting will I’ve ever read included a lion tamer’s stick - the chap chap had won it for entering the lion’s cage at Wombwell’s Menagerie

Extraordinary Stories of Britain Podcast @storiesofbritain.bsky.social · 17h

In the 1800s Wombwell’s menagerie travelled England. One performance at Smithfield in London included an elephant that fired a gun. Hear more in our Strange Animal Stories Podcast: tinyurl.com/2mcp4ww5 #history #lions #animals

Liz Craig @willsmanonename.bsky.social · 17h

Suffolk horse thief's 18th Century letters on show in UK first

Margaret Catchpole was transported to Australia and her letters form part of a new exhibition.

www.bbc.co.uk

Liz Craig @willsmanonename.bsky.social · 17h

Not quite a skeleton, but an Anglo Saxon burial at #SuttonHoo. The bones have not survived, but the flesh had stained the sandy soil. During excavation, the soil was then laminated so that the figures of the dead were preserved & casts taken
#31DaysOfGraves
Day 13: skeleton

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Liz Craig @willsmanonename.bsky.social · 1d

This is the grave of Ellen Wharton Robinson, perhaps better known as Nelly Ternan - an English actress who had a lengthy relationship with Charles Dickens. The relationship began around 1857 and continued until his death in 1870.
#31DaysOfGraves Day 12: notable woman
#HighlandRoadCemetery
#Southsea

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Liz Craig @willsmanonename.bsky.social · 2d

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Liz Craig @willsmanonename.bsky.social · 2d

Such a beautiful photo! It’s so important to keep their stories alive.

Liz Craig @willsmanonename.bsky.social · 2d

Oh yes! I was thinking I’d have to sit that round out, unless I can dig out (& scan) the photos from a visit to Highgate Cemetery.

Liz Craig @willsmanonename.bsky.social · 2d

Actually, that would be really funny - great idea for a challenge! You’d win hands down though! 🤣

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Liz Craig @willsmanonename.bsky.social · 2d

Another military gravestone in #HighlandRoadCemetery which gives some interesting biographical information

#31DaysOfGraves Day 11: military

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Liz Craig @willsmanonename.bsky.social · 2d

The gravestone of William Johnson, “powder monkey”, contains a wealth of biographical information & a brief description of his funeral. The stone was funded by public subscription.

#HighlandRoadCemetery

#31DaysOfGraves Day 11: military

William Johnson’s grave, with an anchor above the inscription

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Liz Craig @willsmanonename.bsky.social · 2d

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Liz Craig @willsmanonename.bsky.social · 2d

The grave of Major General Thomas Edmund Adams in #HighlandRoadCemetery in #Southsea

#31DaysOfGraves Day 11: military

A cross-shaped gravestone with a sword resting against it

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Liz Craig @willsmanonename.bsky.social · 2d

Some additional biographical information included on this gravestone at #HighlandRoadCemetery in #Southsea

#31DaysOfGraves Day 11: military

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Liz Craig @willsmanonename.bsky.social · 2d

A rather interesting grave with an urn on the top

#31DaysOfGraves Day 10: urn

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Liz Craig @willsmanonename.bsky.social · 2d

This is my 3x great grandfather’s grave in #Brynamman. It has one of the few urns I’ve seen on gravestones which isn’t draped in a cloth
#31DaysOfGraves Day 10: urn

Square columned gravestone with an urn on the top

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Liz Craig @willsmanonename.bsky.social · 2d

Robert Frederick Robertson was 72 when he died serving in WW1. He is buried in #HighlandRoadCemetery in #Southsea
#31DaysOfGraves Day 11: military

I wrote about him on my blog:
rootsreconnected.wordpress.com/2021/03/02/o...

The grave of Robert Frederick Robertson was 72 when he died serving in WW1

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Liz Craig @willsmanonename.bsky.social · 2d

Three angels holding a large urn
#Southampton

#31DaysOfGraves Day 10: urn

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Liz Craig @willsmanonename.bsky.social · 2d

Another fine urn from #HighlandRoadCemetery in #Southsea

#31DaysOfGraves Day 10

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Liz Craig @willsmanonename.bsky.social · 2d

Two magnificent urns in #HighlandRoadCemetery in #Southsea
A day late for #31DaysOfGraves Day 10

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Liz Craig @willsmanonename.bsky.social · 3d

That’s such a shame! Ancestors belong to the whole family! I’m so grateful to my uncle for scanning all the photos from my paternal side & as the custodian of my maternal family photos, I feel privileged, & therefore obliged to share them widely.

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Liz Craig @willsmanonename.bsky.social · 3d

If they were willing, & felt comfortable, it would be lovely to record their voices telling you about the photos as they reminisce… I’m thinking about how I can record film/video of my older relatives, & wish access to technology had been so easy while other relatives

Liz Craig @willsmanonename.bsky.social · 3d

Patch & I are enjoying a slow start to #Caturday 😻♥️ Hope you all have a lovely weekend. Today I’m hoping to transcribe more #Sudbourne school log books. Tomorrow I’m going to another #CornDolly workshop @butserancientfarm.co.uk

#LocalHistory #SocialHistory

Patch, the most beautiful cat in the world, sleeping with her head against a gold-coloured pillow

Liz Craig @willsmanonename.bsky.social · 3d

Agree with you. Hope you’re on the mend soon 💐