By Ruth A Symes This article first appeared in the online periodical Discover Your Ancestors (March, 2026) http://www.discoveryourancestors.co.uk A cottage with perhaps the most well-known of all British house names often given by those who had come to rest after a life of work and travel, ‘Dunroamin,’ Symonds Yat, Herefordshire. Via Wikimedia Commons. In Britain,... Continue Reading →
Baptismal Blunders: Strange Happenings At Our Ancestors’ Christenings
By Ruth A Symes This article was first published in Discover Your Ancestors Online Periodical in 2025. http://www.discoveryourancestors.co.uk Etching of a baptism by Anker Smith (1759-1819), Wellcome Collection. Like marriages and burials, baptisms were key life events by which our ancestors demarcated their life experience and for which our extended families in the past routinely... Continue Reading →