HeyJaredRees Scott Archive
The Rees Scott Archive Substack sharing items from the archives and posts about relevant research. Also contains research for the Selves-One-Name-Study
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“We Owned Half of Monmouthshire” (opens the original)
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One of our Rees family legends is that at one stage our family owned half of Monmouthshire – but it was lost by a gambling relative. 1<img alt="File:Monmouthshire Places of I
Bovington Farm - Birth of Fanny Biles, 27th July 1863 (opens the original)
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One of my Paternal Great Grandmothers, Fanny Biles, was born on 27th July 1863, to parents William Biles (1829-1895) and Frances Jane Biles (nee House) (1828-1984). Fanny’s birth certificate recorded her birth as follows: 1<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bxZg!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9303846a-631e-43ea-9cba-17c7ecfced48_1005x438.png" target=
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? (opens the original)
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One of the joys of visiting an archive is to be able to touch and feel old documents.To date, my oldest document that I have physically handled, was for my 3 x Great Grandfather, Richard Rees. This was at a trip to The National Archive (UK) in June 2012. 1<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uBqS!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F70fdf530-8aaa-4599-b84a-e5e985fe
Naming One's Selves (opens the original)
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One of the ‘Multiples’ that family historians often have to deal with is individuals with the same names - often within the same family group or line. That got me to thinking whether this would be worse within a One-Name-Study?So I had a look at my Selves One-Name-Study, to see how many repeats of first names there were.As I am still working back through the parish registers, this mini-study is only considering those who were born in the UK during the civil registration period - so between July
Alnwick Road 'The Pan' - 1961 (opens the original)
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I was born in Lewisham Hospital, and my first ‘home’ was living with my parents and older sister, with my Maternal Grandmother.Then in 1961 we moved a few miles away to Alnwick Road, on the Horn Park Estate. 1 ‘Horn Park’ had originally been one of three parks attached to Eltham Palace, which was used as a royal residence during the 14th - 16th Centuries (the Great Hall of which still stands, with a fabulous hammer beam roof). 2T
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