Somerset & Dorset Family History Society. We help people, wherever they live, with their research into family or local history in Somerset and Dorset.
Yeovil, Somerset
Joined September 2013
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If you want to read about #Dunster’s war memorials & the men of Dunster who lost their lives in #WW1 you can read more about them on my website 👉🏻 dunsterancestors.co.uk/dunst…
#LestWeForget 🥀
In Dunster Village this Remembrance Sunday to honour those who served and sacrificed. Lest we forget. We will remember them.
#RemembranceSunday #lestweforget #wewillrememberthem #Dunster
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From Dorset Life (2011)
A bitter-sweet remembrance
Helen Baggott compares the bleak view of a 1960s Swanage with today’s town.
dorsetlife.co.uk/2011/07/a-b…
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Shaftesbury, Dorset – posted in 1905 to Ada in Eye, Suffolk:
Many thanks for your welcome letter received this morning & which Mr R will discover before long. We have been staying a few weeks here where my father was once rector for 17 years.
#PostedInThePast
Somerset+Dorset FHS retweeted
New map viewer! Historic parks in England 1890s-1900s
We've recently shared our mapping with the Forestry Commission & Zulu Ecosystems to extract a digital layer showing historic parks from O.S. 6-inch 2nd edition maps.
More info (volunteers wanted):
maps.nls.uk/projects/histori…
ALT Screen grab showing Historic parks in England map viewer. O.S. 2nd edition 6-inch map with historic parks shown in green.
ALT Screen grab showing Historic parks in England map viewer - side by side viewer. Historic map is on the left of the screen and a modern satellite image on the right.
ALT Screen grab showing Historic parks in England map viewer, with historic map faded to show modern satellite image beneath.
ALT Screen grab showing Historic parks in England map viewer with historic map faded to show modern satellite image beneath.
Somerset+Dorset FHS retweeted
Somerset Home Guard - Information Sought
Since The Somerset Home Guard a Pictorial Rollcall was published in 2004 more information has surfaced. A companion vol is planned for 2025. If you have any photographs or information that you would like considered please see this notice
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Join historian Holly Cruise at Taunton Castle to explore the story of 'the female husband'.
In the 18th century, Charles Hamilton, who was born Mary, married Mary Price. Months later, Price reported Hamilton, claiming she had been deceived into marrying a woman.
#WeAreHistoric
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As we approach #DDay80, researchers at Dorset History Centre have explored the histories of eight #Dorset men who lost their lives as a result of D-Day.
The first story to tell is that of Bertram Nother, of Dorchester, the eldest of these men, aged 36: orlo.uk/5dsqf
ALT Bertram Nother, shown in the 1939 register as a "Qualified loco boilermaker / S R Engine Sheet labourer".
ALT Details of the headstone for Bertram Nother, at Bayeux War Cemetery, France.
Somerset+Dorset FHS retweeted
June is Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month. Itinerant communities are often overlooked in the historical record. However, in North Somerset, the Joules (or Joles) family were well known and are well documented... 🧵1/
#GRTHM24
maps.bristol.gov.uk/kyp/?edi…
ALT The camp in Uphill was home to the famous Joules family for several decades. #GRTHM24
Somerset+Dorset FHS retweeted
This Wednesday 15th May AGRA member Lynne Cleaver has her book published 'Taunton in 50 buildings'. agra.org.uk/lynne-cleaver-ge…
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#OnThisDay in 1768, Sarah Fielding, the mother of children's literature, died in Bath.
#somerset #childrensauthors #childrensliterature #bath #sarahFielding
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What a happy pair 😀
Good morning to Hugh & Connie, another lovely find from the #PostcardFair at #NorthPetherton
On the back it tells us
“Jack” 6 yrs 11 months
Connie 3 yrs 1 month
Shame there’s no surname or even an area but nice to see them😃
#OldPhotos #FamilyHistory
Somerset+Dorset FHS retweeted
NEWS JUST IN: 🗞️ #SaveOurWills Petition Response Received: It has been lifted from letters sent by Mike Freer and Alex Chalk and reads as though views are still being sought. This is not good enough. The £4.5m figure is still being claimed as accurate. petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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Today I stumbled upon an interesting (yet at 1 point prejudiced) 1964 interview with Gypsy Queen 80-year-old Mrs Wells in her caravan.
player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/…
#gypsy #somerset #romani #Chard #culture #unsungWomen
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"The ice on the River Severn was so thick that locals could ride along it on horseback."
If you're feeling the cold this week, it could be worse - many of our ancestors faced freezing temperatures each winter in the Little Ice Age ❄️
whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.…
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📢Come and work with us!
📚We're recruiting for a Library Group Manager at Bristol Central Library
📅Closing date - Monday 29th January
Apply on the Bristol council jobs website ⬇️
🔗ce0389li.webitrent.com/ce038…
#LibraryJob #Bristol #LibraryTwitter #BristolJobs
ALT Photos of exterior of Central Library and interior photos of children's library, bookshelves and the business centre area
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Lovely to see Posted in the Past ~ Hands Across the Sea mentioned in the new issue of the Dorset magazine. The book's available from wherever you buy your books, but the details are all in this link:
mybook.to/HandsAcrossTheSea
#Genealogy #PostedInThePast
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Vincent Stuckey Wood, grandson of Vincent Stuckey who developed Stuckey's Bank in Langport, died #OnThisDay in 1902. His home was bought by the Sisters of St Gildas, who founded a convent school here. It closed in 1991
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Please sign the below petition [British citizens anywhere🌍+UK residents], respond to the consultation [anyone🌍] & write to your MP [UK residents]. petition.parliament.uk/petit… #SaveOurWills @MollenhauerErin @carbonsaveruk @tuck_fam_soc @MFHistorian @SuffolkHeraldry @Corgiluck
