13th February 1927. Georgianna Haggard departed from Southampton to Rio de Janeiro via the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. She…
25th January 1896. Jeremiah Salter was born to James (a general labourer) and Sarah. He had three older brothers. During…
10th December 1840. William Smith was transported to Van Diemen’s Land on the ship ‘Duncan’ for a fourteen year sentence.…
11th November 1918. Charles William Scott, a Private in the 1st Kent Cyclist Battalion (British Army Cyclist Corps), died in…
15th September 1685. Elizabeth Richards was born in St Michael Parish, Barbados. Her parents were Lattimerr and Judith. She was…
26th August 1922. Georgette Jeanne Pesquet married Salvatore Muscat in Paris. This was recorded as an Anglo-French marriage. Georgette’s parents…
3rd August 1905. Margaret Jane Williams was born. 34 years later, she lived in Rhondda, Glamorganshire and was a school…
15th July 1850. Bridget Cannon arrived in New York. She was 10 years old. An Irish emigrant, she had voyaged…
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27th June 1815. In Middlesex, England, Mary Dinan was acquitted of larceny. She was 14. Had she been found guilty,…