Good God! Am I a Potts? Here I was expecting to trace my way back to Scotland and find out about my clan and the colour of my tartan, even perhaps a coat of arms. But Potts! My spirits brightened … Continue reading →

One of my relatives, William Batchelor was born in 1924 in Barby, Northamptonshire. In the 1851 Census, William,aged 27, was a labourer in Barby. However on 23rd January 1954 he married Harriet Langdon, a Somerset girl, and I then found him in … Continue reading →

My grandfathers were George William Henderson and James Bussicott. They’d both died before I was born. Or did they? Read on. If you read my blog, ‘The Start of it All’, you’d have found out that George William Henderson was … Continue reading →

‘You on your bloody family tree again?’ was a regular question from my wife, Jo, for over a year back in 2009, as she peeked into our tiny office looking for me. Having closed our real estate business down I’d … Continue reading →