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| My Kind of Town |
'Gateway of the North'
'Newark on Trent – Historic Market Town', lies on the banks of the River Trent, and with the A1 and A46 running through it, is also know as 'The Gateway to The North'. The A46 lies along the route of what was the Roman road from Lincoln to Exeter, the Fosse Way, and Roman remains have been found in many villages around Newark. It is not known whether there was actually any Roman settlement at Newark, but there is no doubt that those feet would have passed through what is now my place of work. The Romans left these shores in around AD400. If there was no Roman settlement in Newark, there were certainly Anglo-Saxons living here. An Anglo-Saxon cemetery, used from the early 5th to the early 7th centuries, has been found in Millgate which runs close to the Fosse Way. ...
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June 2008
We lead this issue with our new ‘My Town’ feature. Rosie Knees has written about her home town of Newark, which has a fascinating history right back to Roman times. Everyone is welcome to write about their town for a future issue, as well as setting up a page about it in The Wiki. We also continue the family treasures theme. Sue from Southend and Joan of Archives tell us about the stories behind their particular family heirlooms. For the Occupations Section we look at the largely forgotten craft of the wheelwright and blacksmith, who both played an important role in keeping the population moving before the coming of the railways and the era of motorised transport. Velma Dinkley and jemima puddleduck write about their wheelwright and blacksmith ancestors, whilst Caroline shares her discoveries, gleaned from newspapers, about her great x2 uncle who owned a horse and carriage repository, and Lynn The Forest Fan tells us about her research into her ‘Smith’ ancestors. We also have articles from kathsgirl.48, who shares with us her emotional story about how she reunited a family, from Guinevere who explains how she found a new living relative, and from Delightful Dukkie who continues her story about German migration, which she began in the January issue. The magazine team would like to take this opportunity to thank all contributors to this month’s issue. If you would like to write about your town, family treasure or any other interesting story for a future issue, then please pm Velma Dinkley. The Editors
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| Occupation: Wheelwrights and smiths |
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Occupation: Wheelwrights & Smiths
For this month's Occupations Section we take a look at the highly skilled craftsman of wheelwrights and blacksmiths. We also take a brief look at the other different types of smith.
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Louisa Matilda Rumble
Louisa Matilda Rumble was born in Marylebone, London, in 1854, and was the daughter of James and Catherine (formerly Dilleyson) and the older sister of my great x2 grandfather, John Ashby Rumble.
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| Wheelwrights | The Packham family
My great x3 grandfather, Henry Packham, was born in 1804, the son of a farmer from Clayton in Sussex. Henry was the first of four generations of wheelwrights, and is said to have left his father`s farm after a disagreement and moved to Lindfield wher...
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| Auctioneer | Tompkins’s Horse and Carriage Repository
While browsing through some 19th Century newspapers recently, looking for a different surname entirely, I vaguely noticed that advertisements for horse sales by a Robert Tompkins in Reading, Berkshire started to appear regularly in Jackson’s Ox...
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| Finding Smiths |
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Finding Smiths
When I first began looking for my ancestors, my dad wasn’t really interested and didn’t give me much information to go on. His father and mother were born in 1905 and 1906 respectively, so obviously didn’t appear on the 1901 census....
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| A special box |
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A tatty, but very special box
My grandmother, Hannah Matilda Webster, was born in January 1889 in Bethnal Green, East London. She was the second daughter of William and Mary Ann Webster.
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| Reunion | I knew Anne and Marie
God and the hand of fate work in mysterious ways! Two years ago, whilst reading the ‘trying to find’ messages on Genesreunited I was astounded to see that an adoptee, Liz, was looking for her older half sisters - twins, Anne and Mari...
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| Family Treasures | Family treasures
I only have a few possessions that I can truly say have been handed down in my family. There is a small wooden stool that I used to sit on as a child; the little bits of black paint that used to cover it are now worn away, but that has only revealed ...
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| Discovering my 7th Cousin | Discovering my 7th cousin
I got into family history ten years ago. After Mum died, Dad became very reflective and began to look back over his life and talked about his times as child in Lowestoft. Both his parents had died before I was five and his grandparents long before th...
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| Germanic Migration Part 2 | Australia ~ The Great South Land
Before 1788 and the Captain Cook Discoveries. The concept of a ‘Terra Australis Incognito,’ a great south land, existed in Europe’s middle ages as a myth. The belief was that, a southern land mass acted as a balance, to the northern...
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