Charnwood Genealogy

04/11/2025

It is great to get a mention in the Corringham church magazine 'The Link' following some recent research I carried out regarding a mystery name of T KING on their war memorial - many thanks to Peter for his article on pages 16 and 17 and hopefully the solving of the mystery!!

03/11/2025

Another old photo postcard reunited with its original family 👍 Postcard Traders Association https://charnwoodgenealogy.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/are-you-connected-to-the-hamflett-family-from-bishop-auckland-in-county-durham

Another great find at the recent Bury St Edmunds Postcard Fair was this lovely old family photograph that has written on the reverse – Best Wishes to all from Yours W H HAMFLETT with the addr…

31/10/2025

My latest Charnwood Genealogy blog post with a WW1 link and an amazing connection to a Postcard Publishing family Postcard Traders Association

When I am looking for old postcards and photographs to research I am always on the lookout for any World War 1 postcards that may have a regimental number as well as a name and regiment – one…

18/10/2025

Many thanks for this lovely article about my recent talk which is very much appreciated Bury St Edmunds Post Card Club

Our latest article in the Bury Directory for October 🙂

17/10/2025

My latest Charnwood Genealogy blog post linked to an old wedding photograph from Grays in Essex
Postcard Traders Association

A recent find on eBay was this lovely old wedding photograph of a soldier marrying and on the back was written – Thomas BLOOMFIELD & Sophie Mary NEAL married 14th February 1916 – Ro…

07/10/2025

I really enjoyed delivering a CWGC Sutton Road Cemetery talk to about 60 members of the Leigh on Sea Estuary U3A group this afternoon and I was so pleased to receive so many questions and great feedback afterwards - many thanks for inviting me 👍

06/10/2025

My latest Charnwood Genealogy blog post on another old postcard at the Festival Of Cards in March linked to the COLE family from Gloucestershire Postcard Traders Association

Another find at the Festival of Cards in Somerset in March was this lovely old photograph taken at a photographers in Stroud in Gloucestershire – written on the reverse it says Beryl Austen C…

04/10/2025

What is it they say about seven degrees of separation - I started some new local client research this week and a marriage into the family was for an Eric William Longley-Cook and for some reason that name rang a bell with me.

On checking my Charnwood Genealogy blog I had found and researched a random postcard in 2020 that had been sent from Italy by an Eric William Longley-Cook and he is the same man!!

What were the chances of that happening and I can’t wait to tell the client.

Check out the original blog post here https://charnwoodgenealogy.wordpress.com/2020/03/31/a-postcard-sent-from-italy-in-1910-to-henry-longley-in-tunbridge-wells-and-a-link-to-a-vice-admiral

Update: Last weekend I received a lovey email from a direct descendant of Henry LONGLEY whose mother had come across my original blog post whilst browsing/searching the internet for family informa…

29/09/2025

Following my blog post last week this lovely old photograph has now been reunited with its original family in Ipswich In Suffolk who kindly shared more lovely old family photographs with me and said I could include them in my blog post update - follow this link to read UPDATE Postcard Traders Association

A recent find was this lovely old photograph being sold on eBid by a great postcard dealer friend Steve who is based in Ipswich in Suffolk – it showed a young boy with his toy horse and on th…