Introduction Reading Union Workhouse Many families have a story that describes former prosperity or an aristocratic connection that isn’t exactly true but isn’t completely false, either.  The ancestor who owned half the village, for example, turns out to have been the proprietor of...

The Newrick Surname Newrick is a relatively rare English surname.  This is primarily because, unlike the name Smith for example, which developed thousands of times, independently, it probably descends from a small number, or perhaps only a single, founder family in...

My great-grandfather Edward Williams My great-grandfather Edward Williams was born on 10 April 1870 in Usk, Monmouthshire. He was the youngest of seven children of Abraham Williams (1826-1905), a sawyer from Llanfihangel-juxta-Usk and Ellen Rebecca Williams (née Lucas, and also...

Introduction I knew nothing about the Boston family whilst my Grandmother, Eleanor Victoria Newrick (née Tremble), was alive. My mother, Yvonne Patricia Newrick, spoke of 'Ernie and Ada', her grandparents, but that was all I knew of the Boston family...

 James Frederick Newrick 1839–1896 Early Life and Family James Frederick Newrick was born in 1839 in Durham to Nathaniel Aaron Newrick, a miller, and Charlotte (née Dawson Maddy), who was 24. James was baptised at the church of St. Mary...

Ship’s Carpenter, Milburn Fleet. Lost at sea, North Atlantic, January 1885 Introduction During my research into the Newrick family (my mother, Yvonne, was born a Newrick), the initial date I found regarding the SS Clandon’s (ON 77105) disappearance was January 22nd 1885....