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August 30, 2021 / Edgemere, Bruce Peter, Audio, 1900-1999, Spriggs Hester, Spriggs

Memories of Edgemere 1915-1922(?) Hester Spriggs (1905-2003), daughter of William Spriggs and Alice Hayward, was raised in Acock's Green, near Birmingham, England. In 1915, when Hester was nine, the family immigrated to an apple farm called Edgemere in Nova Scotia's ...

House of Industry

November 14, 2019 / Workhouse, All Stories, All History, 1800-1899, 1700-1799, 1800-1899, 1800-1899, Empire, Places, Spriggs, Other, Workhouse

The House of Industry was created "to manage the poor persons incapable of providing for themselves in the parishes of the island." ...

Plantation Economy

November 14, 2019 / Slavery, 1700-1799, Plantation, Sugar, 1600-1699, All History, Bruce, Clark, 1600-1699, Caldwell, Text Only, 1700-1799, Bruce Peter, Lawrence (Bruce), Scott, 1800-1899, Mitchell, Richardson (Bruce), All Eras, Other, Rose, Rose, Sugar, Rose

The plantation economy Land in the Caribbean islands was cheap, but the costs of setting up a sugar plantation were high. Sir Dalby Thomas in 1690 estimated that a 100 acre plantation on the island of Barbados, with 50 enslaved ...

Richardson: notes and research ref from JR

Dec 10, 2019 Hi J R, How interesting to hear of your friends connection to the Lawrence family. Randi's branch moved to Quebec in 1795 where they farmed for several generations. One of them (Randi's ancestor) then moved west ...

Richardson Ships

November 23, 2019 / 1800-1899, 1900-1949, 1800-1899, Correspondence, Business, Bruce Peter, Text & Images, 1800-1899, 1800-1899, 1900-1999, Richardson (Spriggs), 1900-1999, 1850-1899, All Eras, 1900-1949, Richardson J, Richardson, Richardson (Spriggs), Richardson-spr, Ships, Richardson (Sprig)

Dec 11, 2018Peter, Fascinating to read your comments on Cook's Endeavor, which I suspect would have been fitted out with leather-related rigging by the Richardson Leatherworks located in Whitby at the same time. Not only that, but my non-blood ...

Clarification Will Spriggs 1898 Family

October 13, 2019 / DFC, Bainbridge Oscar, ERL, Royal Flying Corps, 1900-1949, 1900-1949, Text, All Stories, All Research, 1900-1949, Text Only, Correspondence, Empire, Content Type, All Eras, Events, 1900-1949, Family, Persons, Spriggs, Spriggs John, Spriggs, Spriggs, Spriggs, Spriggs

Hi All,As one of the family genealogists and a self appointed historian I think I should correct a few items in the discourse between brother Bill and cousin Peter. Our Grandparents certainly were opposed to the marriage of their son ...

Bill Spriggs Early Life

November 15, 2020 / 1900-1949, Spriggs Bill, 1900-1949, All Stories, All Families, Med: Audio, Spriggs, Audio, 1900-1999, Audio, 1900-1999, All Eras, Life, 1950+, Persons, Spriggs, Spriggs Bill, Spriggs, Spriggs, Spriggs, Recollections, Spriggs

This recording was made one month before Bill's passing in May 2019. He talks about various events and family members in his early life ...

Bill Spriggs BC Parks

November 15, 2020 / 1900-1949, 1900-1949, All Stories, All Media, Med: Audio, Bruce Peter, Audio, 1900-1999, Audio, 1900-1999, All Eras, Life, 1950+, Persons, Spriggs, Spriggs Bill, Spriggs, Spriggs, Spriggs, Recollections, Spriggs, Spriggs

My lovely cousin Bill Spriggs passed away in May 2019. Bill was a forester and for almost his entire career, he worked for BC Parks as a parks planner. In this recording, taken one month before his death, his recounts ...

Will Spriggs: Flyer Tales

November 14, 2020 / DFC, 1900-1949, Spriggs Will 1898, 1900-1949, All Stories, All Media, Med: Audio, Empire, Hellum Hilary, Audio, 1900-1999, Audio, 1900-1999, All Eras, Events, 1900-1949, Spriggs, Spriggs, Spriggs William 1898-1986, Spriggs, Spriggs, Recollections, WW1, Spriggs

Will Spriggs and the Distinguished Flying Cross October 1918 Will (b.1898) was a pilot in an observer biplane in World War I. After extensive training, he was assigned to the British 4th Army at the front line in France. His ...

Memories of Edgemere

November 17, 2020 / Edgemere, 1900-1949, All Stories, All Families, All Media, Med: Audio, 1900-1999, Audio, 1900-1999, Audio, All Eras, 1900-1949, Life, Persons, Places, Spriggs, Edgemere, Spriggs Hester, Spriggs, Spriggs, Spriggs, Recollections, Spriggs, Spriggs

Memories of Edgemere 1915-1919 Hester Spriggs (1905-2003), daughter of William Spriggs and Alice Hayward, was raised in Acock's Green, near Birmingham, England. In 1915, when Hester was nine, the family immigrated to an apple farm called Edgemere in Nova Scotia's ...

High Flight

November 14, 2020 / 1900-1949, Audio, Spriggs Bill, 1900-1949, All Stories, Med: Audio, 1900-1999, Audio, Audio, 1900-1999, All Eras, Life, 1950+, Spriggs, Spriggs Bill, Spriggs, Poetry, Spriggs, Spriggs, Spriggs, Spriggs

High Flight by John Gillespie Magee Spoken from Memory by Bill Spriggs, Apr 28, 2019 ...

Spriggs Origin

November 7, 2020 / Pre 1600, Pre 1600, Pre 1600, Pre-History, Text Only, All Eras, Spriggs, Spriggs, Other, Spriggs, Spriggs, Spriggs

Spriggs Origin This unusual name is of early medieval English origin, and is an example of the common medieval practice of creating a surname from the habitual use of a nickname. In this case the nickname was used of someone ...

Spriggs Will WWI

October 28, 2020 / 1900-1949, 1900-1949, Spriggs Will 1898, All Stories, Text-emails, All Research, Correspondence, Bruce Peter, Empire, 1900-1999, 1900-1999, All Eras, Events, 1900-1949, Hellum Tim, Persons, Spriggs, Spriggs John, Spriggs, Spriggs, Spriggs, WW2, Spriggs, WW1, Spriggs

Hi Peter, A few observances on Part III The aircraft: The FK8 AW160 had double Lewis machine guns for the observer and a Vickers rigid mounted machine gun for ...

Zong Massacre

January 26, 2021 / Slavery, 1700-1799, All History, Bruce Peter, Text & Images, 1800-1899, Anti-slavery, British Museum, Other, Slavery

The Zong massacre was a mass killing of more than 130 enslaved Africans by the crew of the British slave ship Zong on and in the days following 29 November 1781.[a] The Gregson slave-trading syndicate, based in Liverpool, owned the ship and sailed her in the Atlantic slave trade ...

Richardson: research reference

November 25, 2019 / 1800-1899, 1800-1899, All Research, All Eras, Text Only, Notes, 1800-1899, Richardson (Spriggs), All Eras, Richardson J, Richardson, Other, Richardson (Spriggs), Richardson-spr, Richardson (Sprig)

Websiteshttps://benbeck.co.uk/fh/richardson.html ...

Fisher: earliest known

November 23, 2019 / Pre 1600, 1600-1699, Text-emails, All Research, All Eras, Text, Pre 1600, Correspondence, Pre-1600, 1700-1799, Fisher, All Eras, Fisher, Vernon, Fisher, Spriggs John, Haddon Hall

Apr 28, 2019 From John Spriggs Regarding the Fishers; the earliest in my tree is Reuben who was a surgeon of Southwark in London and married a Joan Howe. They had at least two children named Martha and Reuben. Martha ...

Battenhall Mount

January 12, 2021 / Clothier, Spriggs William 1821, Battenhall Mount, 1800-1899, 1800-1899, Med: Image, Bruce Peter, Text & Images, 1800-1899, All Eras, Spriggs, Other, Life In England, Spriggs, Privilege, Spriggs, Spriggs

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Requiem Spriggs Bill

October 19, 2019 / 1900-1949, Audio, Spriggs Bill, 1900-1949, All Media, Med: Audio, Bruce Peter, 1900-1999, Audio, Audio, 1900-1999, All Eras, Life, 1950+, Spriggs, Spriggs Bill, Spriggs, Spriggs, Spriggs, Spriggs, Spriggs

The Woodsman's Requiem by Alice Martin Spoken from Memory by Bill Spriggs, Apr 28, 2019 ...

Haddon Fishers

November 23, 2019 / Haddon Hall, All Research, Pre 1600, Pre 1600, Pre-History, Text-emails, Correspondence, Pre-1600, Bruce Peter, Fisher, Fisher, Fisher, Spriggs John, Haddon Hall

Apr 30 2019Hi Peter,Don’t give up on your Haddon Hall Fishers. Check out Kinsalebeg.com and you’ll find lots of Fishers which may well give you a path to the pot of gold.Another interesting trail to follow is a note that ...

What It Was Like: Nazi Occupation

November 17, 2020 / 1900-1949, 1900-1949, All Stories, All Families, Med: eBook, 1900-1999, 1900-1999, All Eras, Events, Hellum, eBook, 1900-1949, Hellum, e-Book, Hellum Kare, Persons, Places, Hellum, Hellum, WW2, WW2

A Very Personal Story of War A Kare Hellum Text Ulrik Hellum Illustrations ...