I'm back from a quick trip up to the land of Tartan and ready to get stuck in again. So let's meet Reginald Storey Beasley, the younger son of Henry & Mary (nee Storey) and my second cousin twice removed plus my third cousin three times removed. Yes, he's from that side of the family!
Ronald was born on 11 July 1900 in Cambridge and was christened at St Barnabas, on Mill Road, today 110 years ago. The family lived in Tenison Road at the time and, by 1911, had moved a little way down Mill Road to Gwydir Street. He married Nellie Louisa Edwards at the church of St Mary & St Michael in Trumpington in 1923 . . . . and that's all I know about him.
So we'll move on or, rather, back, to my first cousin three times removed William Murfitt, who was born in 1833 in Stretham. The oldest of the eleven children of Isaac & Alice (nee Langford) he was christened today at St James' church in the village and, unsurprisingly, grew up to become an ag lab. And then he disappears.
Well, maybe not exactly but I can't find him again. I guess he's got to be there somewhere - I'll keep looking.
And finally, for today, meet my great-great-great-uncle Richard Fordham, the fourth of five sons of John & Mary (nee Taylor) who was christened today in 1821 in Hemingford Grey. Sadly, he died on August 16th and was buried two days later in the same church.
Still waiting for the certificate which should help with the details of the previous blog entry.
More soon.
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