HeyJaredUncovered Roots
Uncovering the roots that shape who we are and the places we call home.
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James Gillingham: Bootmaker, Inventor, and Prosthetic Limb Innovator (opens the original)
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So far, I’ve only written articles about my own family history. I have plenty more family stories to tell, but when I came across a fascinating collection of photographs of James Gillingham’s prosthetic limb creations, I had to know more.Who was this man? How did a bootmaker from a small Somerset town come to make prosthetic limbs? And how did his creations eventually reach thousands of people across Britain?The answers were more interesting than I could have imagined.<a class="image-link image2
One Generation Apart (opens the original)
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In 1918, my 4x great-grandfather, Frederick Anderson, was in his early eighties. A wealthy manufacturer, he spent his final years in a detached house. He owned property, loaned money, and, overall, was enjoying the fortune he had spent a lifetime building.At that very same moment, his granddaughter — my 2x great-grandmother, Elizabeth Jane Anderson — was dying of tuberculosis in a slum.Just one generation separated them. How could members of the same family end up living such different lives?Fre
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