How it began
Will writes: I fell in love with family history when I was aged seven and ‘Aunty' Lizzie of Anglesey took me by the hand to show me the large sepia photos on the wall of her parlour, telling me which were “my people”.
Thirty years on, dad died. He left me an account of his first 16 years. This record of Liverpool in the early 1920s and his wonderful pen portraits of his parents and grandparents sparked my imagination.
The two incidents set me off on a pastime that has fascinated me for nearly 30 years.
Don’t miss...
• Our BBC recording of Tamar Hoggarth
• The Mary Max kidnap
• Henry Prossor's divorce (coming soon)
• William Frank Bramhill’s biography
• The Liverpool Lifeboat Disaster of 1892 (coming soon)
• The Bibby’s mill explosion of 1911
• George Alfred Unwin and the world’s first CQD (SOS) message (coming soon)
• George 2 Unwin and the sinking of the Rotomahana
• Our combined Ancestry tree
for Bramhill and Hudson
About us
Will Bramhill and Liz (nee Hudson) live in Colchester, Essex, UK. Will is a newspaper sub-editor and Liz is a charity worker.
As well as genealogy our pastimes include gardening. cycling, politics and reading — and Liz loves quilting.
To contact us or view our combined tree, see the bottom of the page.
No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away, until the clock wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone’s life is only the core of their actual existence
Terry Pratchett
Choose a name: Bramhill family
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Leeds, Yorkshire, and Ipswich, Suffolk
Twigs: Hoggarth, Fletcher, Allin, Jackson, Morton, Wilkinson and Rhodes
Suffolk, Norfolk, London, Manchester and Leeds
Twigs: Elvidge, Stark, White, Casemore, Hartley, Holmes and Kirk
Eagle and Wadworth, Lincolnshire, and Tickhill and Leeds, Yorkshire
Twigs: White, Holmes, Kirk
(Coming soon)
Dauntsey, Wilts, and the North York Moors
Twigs: Allin, Frank, Topliff, Brusby, Flintoff
(Coming soon)
Ireland, Liverpool, Castleford and Leeds
Twigs: Hartley, Wilson, Sadler, Thompson and Booth
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