This is an index page to my genealogical blog posts and web pages.
Hibbards
William Charlton Hibbard + Sarah Anne Smith
(my great-great-grandparents)
William’s religion
Sarah’s parentage
Visiting their graves in West Roxbury, with other descendants
Charles Morse Seaver and Susan Hibbard, notes by their second son Henry Seaver
(Susan was the daughter of William Charlton Hibbard and Sarah Anne Smith, therefore my great-great-aunt)
Their son Walter Seaver (my first cousin twice removed)
Their daughter Alice Thanisch (ditto)
Their son Philip Seaver (ditto)
Walter Seaver’s granddaughter Sally Seaver (my third cousin)
Henry Seaver’s daughter Elizabeth Helfman (my second cousin once removed)
William and Sarah’s great-granddaughter Joan Hibbard Fleming (also my second cousin once removed)
The baby in the park (also a great-granddaughter of William and Sarah, and my second cousin once removed)
Henry Deming Hibbard (my great-grandfather)
postal chess
Dorothy Gordon Hibbard (my grandmother)
visits Romania as a guest of the royal family
dances with the Prince of Wales
Wickershams and Maryland connections
Matthias and Thomas Bordley, and Elizabeth Bordley Gibson (my 4xgreat-grandfather and his brother and sister)
Francis Scott Key, composer of the Star-Spangled Banner, my second cousin six times removed
Wick Hoffman’s books:
The Early Life of Samuel M. Wickersham [my great-great-grandfather], based on his writings 1819-1862
The Life of Col. Samuel M. Wickersham, based on his writings 1863-1894
The Bordley and Belt Families, Based on Letters Written by Family Members
My great-great-uncle Richard Wickersham drowns in the 1889 Johnstown Flood
Another great-great-uncle and President Taft.
I find the grave of my grandmother, her grandmother, two of her aunts and one of her uncles
Whytes
Notes on Sir Nicholas White, 16th-century Irish politician
The Ryans of Inch and their World
One of my 5x-great-grandfathers is killed by another of my 5x-great-grandfathers in a duel in 1723
Comte Whyte de Malleville is liberated from the Bastille in 1789
My great-great-great-uncle in the Peninsular War
The ill-treatment of Lady de la Beche, my first cousin twice removed
Amy Dillwyn, granddaughter of Lady de la Beche and my third cousin once removed
Gladys Maudes Sandes, my fourth cousin
Frederic Whyte, my first cousin three times removed and my second cousin twice removed
Actors of the Century: a Play-Lover’s Gleanings From Theatrical Annals
The Life of W.T. Stead
William Heinemann: A Memoir
A Wayfarer in Sweden
A Bachelor’s London: Memories of the Day before Yesterday, 1889-1914
he was also my fourth cousin once removed
My third cousin Brian Killick’s novels:
The Nannies
The Heralds
Beneath the Dome
The Camelot Club
My grandfather in the First World War
His brother-in-law’s grave
My second cousin Maralyn Rittenour
Murrays
My grandfather and Irish decimalisation
My (second) godson