A Cane Hill Hospital World War One Hero
Like many at Cane Hill Hospital, Allan Coulter Hancock, one of its junior doctors, enlisted on the outbreak of the first world war. He...
Barbara’s Miniature
For all the records of a person’s birth, death and marriage, nothing can surpass an episode that brings to life his or her character and...
On the Ruins of the Old
Cane Hill Hospital once stood for about 130 years. Now, only the chapel and the water tower remain intact at Cane Hill, amid the ruins...
A Clue from the Goldfields
Like his father, Charles Wynne Aubrey must have felt the urge to write to the papers. In a letter to The Morning Post, in England, he...
A serendipitous purchase
Some time ago, while browsing in a bookshop waiting for the ferry to take me to Coll in the Scottish Inner Hebrides, a paperback caught...
Moving up the Social Ladder
In 1852, the 64-year-old Henry Harcourt Wynne Aubrey, left his wife and children, took all his belongings, and ran off to live with a...
Missing Offspring
Wikipedia is a wonder of the age. Anyone can find just about anything about anyone. Information is at one’s fingertips. This became...
Adultery and Divorce
Survivor and social climber Jane Sparks, daughter of a carpenter, did become Mrs Aubrey. As well as her youth (and handsome looks?), Jane...
This is a family history blog with a difference
This is a family history blog with a difference. It aims to find all those people who can trace their ancestry to Morgan Aubrey who...
Moving down the track of Morgan Aubrey’s offspring…
Moving down the track of Morgan Aubrey’s offspring – seven generations to be precise – we come to Elizabeth Aubrey who married Gabriel...