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Clare Kirk
@digupyourancestors.bsky.social
#FamilyHistory researcher
Trustee @cotswoldarch.bsky.social
Editor @friendlesschurches.bsky.social
OFHS advisor
Singer, baker, occasional mudlarker
Blogging at digupyourancestors.com
Thank you very much Jane ☺️
December 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Lovely! Could this have been for a West Gallery choir/instruments rather than the congregation because the congregation doesn’t usually sing anthems. And the triangle shape would make sense for musicians standing in a horseshoe shape. Plus, the choir would be more likely to have a hymnbook.
December 9, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Sounds great - apart from the assignment bit!
December 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Love it!
December 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Those are lovely names!
December 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
That’s my middle name!
(And this is giving me Deja vu - have we talked about this before?)
December 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I’m wondering how Myrt knows that Hannah’s maiden name was Hudson?
I think she’s right to question the baptism in Sunningwell. That is very close to me and it’s 35 miles from Bisham.
November 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
It sounds made up, doesn’t it? Really lovely. I guess far back your ancestors were garderobes for nobility.
November 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
In 1925 her daughters May and Gertrude made national news as 'WATER-DIVINING WOMEN' after Chelmsford Council employed them to help find water supplies. They used a hazel twig to detect possible locations.
2/2
November 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Wow! It seems to me that American ancestors have the most characterful names.
November 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Love it! Where did he get the name Wardrobe, do you know?
November 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM
My husband also has the more interesting ancestors. But I can claim them as mine now!
November 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Those names are delightful.
It seems to me that the ladies often had the most interesting names, thought Mordecai is giving them a run for their money!
November 18, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Reposted by Clare Kirk
Theodocia Batcheller. Or Batchelder. Or Batchellor. 🤷‍♀️ #FamilyHistory Here’s her story: toomuchbrudders.com/2025/05/29/d...
Dear Theodocia | Too Much Brudders blog
Oh, Theodocia, what a life you lived! Your family members survived the Revolutionary War and your son died in the Civil War.
toomuchbrudders.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:13 PM