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January 18, 2021 / 1900-1949, Spriggs Early Years, Med: Slideshow, Bruce Peter, 1900-1999, 1900-1999, Slider, Spriggs, Privilege, Spriggs, Spriggs

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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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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 ...

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 ...

Bournville

May 9, 2021 / Chocolate, Text and Images, Bruce Peter, Text & Images, 1800-1899, Chocolate, 1800-1899, 1900-1999, Cadbury, Bournville, Cadbury

Bournville ...

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 ...

England – Tales of a Time Traveler

November 14, 2020 / 1800-1899, 1900-1949, Pre 1600, 1600-1699, 1700-1799, All History, Pre 1600, All History, 1600-1699, All Media, Pre-1600, Business, Bruce Peter, 1700-1799, 1600-1699, Chaloner, Education, 1800-1899, Fisher, 1700-1799, Empire, 1900-1999, 1800-1849, 1850-1899, 2000-2030, eBook, Events, All Eras, 1900-1949, e-Book, Human Rights, Life, Persons, Places, Politics, Pease, Sci-Tech, Pepys, Slavery, eBook, Richardson, Rose, Savery, Savory, Shackleton, Sloane, Spriggs, Vernon, Wales, Wigham, Spriggs

In 2018, my wife Randi and I made a trip to England. We stayed for three weeks and covered the country from top to bottom, renting a car to get about. As I relate our travel experience, I also step ...

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 ...

Grandfather Clock

November 13, 2020 / Clock, Family: Spriggs, Text & Images, 1700-1799, 1700-1799, 1700-1799, Family, Knight, Clock, Clock, Things, Spriggs John, Spriggs, Spriggs, Spriggs

The Old Grandfather Clock inherited by William Spriggs 6th This clock belonged to William and Martha Knight and is believed to have been bought by them in about 1782 when they moved to Worcester from London. Martha’s maiden name was ...

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 ...

Haddon Hall Clarification

May 3, 2021 / Haddon Hall, Pre 1600, Pre-History, Text-emails, Bruce Peter, Fisher, Haddon Hall, Manners, Vernon, Vernon

I’ve been asked to clarify which side of the family is related to the Haddon Hall folks. The answer is Spriggs, my mother’s side. Lady Ursula Fisher Webb was her first cousin. Through her we are related to the Fishers ...

Haddon Hall Connection

November 23, 2019 / Haddon Hall, Pre-History, Text-emails, Incomplete, All Research, All Eras, Pre 1600, Pre 1600, Correspondence, Pre-1600, Bruce Peter, Text & Images, Fisher, Vernon, Fisher, Manners, Manners, Vernon, Spriggs, Vernon

Haddon Hall Peter is asked to explain the connection to Haddon Hall Have a seat. This is complicated and my tree is a mess of contradictions here which I need to clear up. However, here is how I think ...

Haddon Visit

November 23, 2019 / Haddon Hall, All Stories, Incomplete, Pre 1600, Pre 1600, Pre-1600, Bruce Peter, Text & Images, Fisher, 1900-1999, Places, Vernon, Fisher, Vernon, Haddon Hall, Manners, Manners, Vernon, Spriggs, Vernon

Sep 12, 2018Toured Haddon Hall yesterday. Absolutely amazing. Haddon is a large medieval manor house which dates back to the 1100s and which came into the hands of our 26th great grandfather Sir Richard de Vernon with his marriage to ...

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 ...

Hodd Cookbook

November 20, 2019 / Cookbook, Trinidad, Text-emails, All Research, Correspondence, 1900-1949, Cookbook, Bruce Peter, 1900-1999, 1900-1999, 1900-1949, Hodd, Hodd, Hodd, Hodd

This Massachusetts prof is researching cook books of Trinidad as a cultural institution and was looking for background info on Barbara Hodd ...

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." ...

Indomitable Mary Fisher 1623-1698

January 30, 2021 / 1600-1699, 1600-1699, Bruce Peter, Text & Images, Fisher, Fisher, Quaker, Quaker

Mary Attempts to Convert the Sultan In December of 1651, in the small town of Selby, Yorkshire, a man gave a talk to the Tomlinson family. Invited to listen was their indentured serving maid Mary Fisher (27). The man was ...

Leather

January 31, 2021 / Leather, Tanning, Bruce Peter, Text & Images, 1800-1899, 1900-1999, Leather, Richardson-spr, Richardson (Sprig)

Our tour bus wound down and down off the heights of the North York Moors as we edged our way towards Whitby on Yorkshire’s east coast. There are no shoulders on these roads and no second chances. If you want ...

Letter: E Manser to M Spriggs

November 26, 2020 / 1800-1899, 1800-1899, Text Only, Bruce Peter, 1800-1899, 1800-1899, 1850-1899, All Eras, Spriggs, Manser, Manser, Letters, Knight, Spriggs, Spriggs, Manser, Spriggs

This letter was written by Elizabeth Sarah Manser (1835-1904) to her mother-in-law to be Martha Spriggs née Knight (1777-1866) on the occasion of her engagement to William Spriggs (1821-1899). The letter is a response to Martha’s letter to Elizabeth. I ...

Light!

January 31, 2021 / Lighthouse, Bruce Peter, Text & Images, 1800-1899, 1800-1899, Light, Light, Wigham, Wigham

John Richardson Wigham Lighthouse Engineer (1829-1906) By the mid-1800s the Richardsons had been in the tanning business for 200 years. One could say they had ‘made it.’ It would have been easy for family members to just continue doing what ...