My Paternal Grandparents both came from sizeable families. Grandfather Richard Deacon Blackwell had thirteen siblings born between 1835 and 1856 to James Hawkins Blackwell and
After years of talking about it, Rick and I set off to explore Cornwall on June 25, 2023 with a tentative three week plan. Ahead
I actually know quite a bit about my father’s family, the Blackwells, as well as the various branches that are not Blackwells. I have been
It wasn’t intentional, but we arrived in Taipei just in time for the “Quemoy Matsu Crisis” of August, 1958. Briefly, “Red” China was shelling off-shore
I write this with some trepidation – how do you write about your mother? Of course I knew her well, and loved her dearly, but trying to tell her story is daunting.
In my first five posts I discussed the Uren and Barwis families in Cornwall. In this post I want to bring the saga up to
My great grandfather, George Gilbert Uren (later Wren), was born in Falmouth in 1862, and died in Bournemouth in 1954. I don’t know much about
Welcome to my family blog! What I hope to do here is to bring people in my family to life, so that the materials and
In my last post I outlined (briefly!) my mother’s family history in the Scilly Islands. In this post, I want to set the stage for
This post concerns the ancestors of my mother, Anne Banfield Wren. Her family came from to the US in 1924 from England, by way of