• Family History

    Latest addition :)

    John. Odell College: TRINITY Entered: Michs. 1791 More Information: Adm. Fell.-Com. (age 17) at TRINITY, Nov. 5, 1791. S. of John, of Youghal, Ireland (and Judith, dau. of Christopher Musgrave). School, Winchester. [Had previously matric. from Christ Church, Oxford, Feb. 5, 1791, age 16.] Matric. Michs. 1791. Of Carriglea, Waterford. Married, Sept. 3, 1799, Catharine, dau. of the Rt. Rev. Matthew Young, Bishop of Clonfert, and had issue; two sons at Oxford. Died Feb. 8, 1811, in Queen Anne Street West, London. Brother of the above. (G. Mag., 1811, I. 298; Al. Oxon.; Burke, L.G.) I have such distinguished relations…obviously…

  • Family History - Tech!

    The Cambrian

    City and County of Swansea – Leisure and Tourism Just came across this great site, an index of entries for The Cambrian newspaper from 1804 to 1960. Five minutes later and I found four entries for Thomas Mansel. The full information will be posted for Thomas Mansel soon.

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    Multimedia message, originally uploaded by Jennifer Young. Ok, I had rotated that last image but something went wrong 🙁 I’ll work on it! Ruislip Woods, where we went for a nice walk in the fading sunlight (and my boyfriend spent hours walking around in circles, even though he used to live nearby).

  • Family History - Relationships

    Memo

    Dear landlord of flat downstairs, I can’t take much more. You have let your beautifully refurbished flat to a couple of chavs. 1) they slam every door possible 2) they never double lock the front door (despite the polite notice on the back of it) 3) they play shite music 4) they play this music whenever they feel like it, for example, Monday 19th September 2005 6.45 am, loud enough to wake me up; Monday 19th September 2005 11.30pm, loud enough to stop me from nodding off; Tuesday 20th September 2005 7.15am, before I wanted to be awake; Tuesday 20th…

  • Family History - Orla Kiely

    Love/Hate

    There are a lot of things I hate in this world: my chav downstairs neighbours who don’t care if they play their crap music at 7 in the morning or midnight; my grumpy, stomping, neighbour upstairs who seems to get louder whenever he hears me turn a light switch on; the kids who went back to school this week and make my journey to work even longer; my job; and my boyfriend when he goes out and I discover a big, hairy spider in the bedroom. More importantly, the things I love are my mum, sister, nieces, boyfriend; Orla Kiely…