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Today 11th June 1890 was a very sad day as the residents of Woodstock and Salt River heard of the tragic passing of a father and daughter killed at Salt River Station. Frederick, Smith, his wife Alice, son Frederick and daughter Katie were taking a short cut along the main line to Cape Town. They ...

Alexander Yeomans, my great great grandfather was born on the 26th September 1824 in Little Compton Street, Soho. Alexander grew up and lived int Soho until he joined the Army. Soho the smells of dust, lust, cheap perfume, wine, beer, urine, ripe melons and rotting cabbage leaves. Soho might not always be pleasant, but ...

There were no flowers on the grave. As I stood there, on that clean summer morning with the sunshine making bright patterns on the stones, and making them shine like diamonds, I remembered my Father. My mother's death had been more recent, and the ache was still there except perhaps sadness for myself, for what should ...

In May 2008 my husband Donald and encountered the holiday of a life time on the Ancient Silk Route of China. Although I say it was a holiday, he says we have trips, trips that are not restful nor are they cheap.  None the less 3 weeks crossing China where we hardly saw another european ...

[caption id="attachment_18" align="alignleft" width="113" caption="Mary Jane Carleton"][/caption] During the mid 1800's the Southern Coast of Africa or the Cape of Storms as it was better known, hundreds of ships were constantly bombarded by the force of the mighty oceans swells which continued to swallow up the vessels that tried to make their way around the Cape ...

Being the 7th child in a family was not easy - by the time I had reached the aged of ten my grandparents already had one foot in the grave and both sets of ancestors believe it or not were all born in the 1880's and 1890's. That sounds quite bizarre they would all be ...