searchmyancestry – Ruth A. Symes
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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 →
In the 1920s, hundreds of peculiar cream-coloured cubicles with eye-catching red doors first appeared on British pavements. My article 'Verminous Receptacles' on the practical, humorous and criminal ways in which the public reacted to so-called 'telephone cabinets' is out today in Discover Your Ancestors periodical online! http://www.discoveryourancestors.co.uk (Read by subscription only) Family History Research... Continue Reading →
By Ruth A Symes This article was first published in Discover Your Ancestors online periodical in 2025 The funeral of Sir Hector Macdonald in Edinburgh, 1903 by F. C Dickinson after J. Faulds. Macdonald had supposedly committed suicide after allegations of homosexuality and paedophilia were made against him. Later some claimed that the coffin had... Continue Reading →
