I unintentionally deleted my two
previous 2015 blogs - never answer the phone while keyboarding. For anyone
interested, they referred to an expansion of last year's entries for the
Dunkley brothers, and new entries for the Beadsworth family. All but one of the
the Beadsworth soldiers who died in the War descended from the same couple in
Drayton; to discover which of them briefly played for Manchester United,
have a look at their histories.
The most
recent additions to the website concern the Binley family. I am indebted to
Janice Binley of Cottingham (strangely enough Janice now lives in the house
once occupied by my grandparents) who has generously shared her information
with me. I have done further research into relatives and descendants of the
Cottingham Binleys so in all there are thirteen new histories to read. Janice
has also written an account of her family's antecedents which is published at
www.craxfordfamily.co.uk. This fascinating website has a wealth of information
on local families including an account of Barrack Yard co-written by
Janice.
I continue to
research the individuals and families with Cottingham connections and enter the
information onto my database, which is becoming positively gargantuan as a
result. New people keep turning up, and new online sources of information
appearing; at this rate I will still be
compiling entries ten years from now. In the meantime, you will find that the
listing of each serviceman now contains
details of the regiment / battalion / unit in which he served, which should
help anyone who wants to start his/her own research. Please contact me if I can help you, or if
you can help me. I am currently working on the West and Lines families.
