My Webpage has now been online for three years and I continue to update the appearance of my pages.
There is a new Gallery to view pieces of my art and photography and images of my recently held public exhibition.
There is also a new look to my pages and more articles are being added alongside the originals.
Please visit this site from time to time and hopefully continue to enjoy these changes.
Family History
19th century living
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It is a useful concept to try to appreciate what life might have been like for our ancestors prior to the high technological advances of to-day. It is only a couple of hundred years ago but a lot of changes have occured in that time which are generally thought of as improvements. Certainly improvements in public health and a rise in living standards have been paramount.
Essex Roots
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A few years ago I discovered that my family name of GAYWOOD was prevalent in parts of Essex and especially in the vicinity of Wickham Bishops and Hatfield Peverel.
I have collected together an account of Welsh symbolism as written for a piece of work on my Welsh family history. My ancestors came from South Wales and were mostly based around the Swansea and Neath regions.
Welsh Memories
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As a child I spent many happy holidays with my grandparents in South Wales. During that time I experienced many Welsh traditions and family values. It has been satisfying to recall some of these with a sense of nostalgia.
WW1
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My interest in WW1 came about as I researched my father's genealogy. My Grandfather had been killed in the Great War at the Battle of the Somme on 31st July 1917. Whilst writing up my family history I researched the circumstances of his death and this consumed me with its injustices which was a reaction similarly experienced by many other families at that time.