Biographies

James & Jane COMPTON

JAMES COMPTON c 1838 – 1905 JANE ELIZABETH COMPTON (CLARKE) 1832 – 1915 James Compton was born in Potton, Bedfordshire about 1838 but he is not easy to trace. It’s possible his parents died when [more] [more]

Catherine & Edward GOULBOURNE

CATHERINE GOULBOURNE 1834 – 1899 EDWARD GOULBOURNE 1840 – 1914 Edward Goulbourne was born about 1840, he was the son of John and Jane Goulbourne. His father was a gardener from Shropshire, Jane was from [more] [more]

Henry Frederick SEAGRAM 1838 – 1883 RWF

HENRY FREDERICK SEAGRAM 1838 – 1883 Lieut.-Colonel 1st Battalion 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers Henry Frederick Seagram was baptised on 20 April 1838 at St Denys, Warminster, he was the son of John Seagram, a solicitor [more] [more]

Daniel MOSTYN 1842-1900

Daniel Mostyn was born in 1842, he was the son of Edward Mostyn, a collier and Elizabeth Edwards, the family lived in the Coedpoeth, and there is still a Mostyn Road there. Edward and Elizabeth [more] [more]

THE FRENCH LEATHER DRESSER. EUGENE GONAT / LOUIS ROGER

Eugène Gonat was born 13 September 1851 at Clamecy, Bourgogne, France. He was the son of Francois Cléophas Casimir Gonat and Françoise Virginie Guillien. The birth was registered at the Marie in Clamecy. (Translated) In the [more]

Thomas Tudge

CATHERINE ANN TUDGE 1864-1865 Catherine Ann Tudge infant daughter of Thomas and Catherine Tudge died June 2nd 1865 aged 14 months. Thomas Tudge was born in 1824 at Llanfair Caereinion, Mongomeryshire and was the son [more]

Joseph SACKS (SACHS)

Joseph Sachs was born in Germany about 1849; he was likely to have been Jewish and changed his name to Sacks. Caroline Keeler was born in Congleton 1849, both her parents were also German, her [more]

Commander Włodzimierz Andrzej Kodrębski and O.R.P. Błyskawica, Polish Navy

Włodzimierz Kodrębski was a Polish Naval Officer, a participant of the Polish-Soviet War 1920 and World War II. In the inter-war period he was a Staff Officer, and Commander of torpedo boats and destroyers. In [more]

Janina Maria Płoska – Resistance fighter, teacher, writer.

Janina Płoska was a Captain in the Polish Home Army, “Armia Krajowa” AK. – the Polish resistance fighting against the German occupation of Poland. She took part in the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. She was [more]

Waleria and Karol Marynowski. Their perilous journey, to their final resting place in Wrexham

Waleria Marynowska and Karol Marynowski Waleria and Karol Marynowski were born in pre-war Poland. Their perilous journey, to their final resting place in Wrexham was typical of the hundreds of Poles who lie buried in [more]

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