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Florence V E Phillips

May 20, 2024

My great-grandmother Florence Venetia Eileen Phillips was born in Somerset on August 16th, 1924. Despite my great-grandmother being what I…

Enjoying the Sun 1949-51

May 20, 2024

Bermuda is where my mother and father first met and fell in love between 1949 and 1951. Dad (Eddie Hillman)…

Jean Rayner at 22 years old, 1945

April 25, 2024

My grandmother, Jean Gentha Catherine Rayner (nee.Minors) was born November 3 1923 in St. David’s Bermuda. She was one of…

My great-grandmother, Annie Eliza Outerbridge Smith

March 12, 2024

My great-grandparents lived at Durnford House in St. George’s. They had eight children, seven of whom lived to adulthood. They…

This is a picture of my paternal grandfather Joseph Christopher, a native of Saint Kitts who emigrated to Bermuda in 1918.

February 21, 2023

I’m Annette Lewis, grand daughter of Joseph Christopher, a native of Saint Kitts and Nevis. Joseph was born on 3rd…

January 24, 2023

Here is our much beloved paternal Great Grandmother, Mary Elizabeth Davis Lightbourne of Crawl Point, Bermuda. Like Bermudians of yesterday…

January 24, 2023

George Tucker “Red” Lightbourne was a well-known native of Bermuda where he owned and operated one of the two most…

January 24, 2023

We are a very small family so Christmas is the time that we plan family gatherings. Everyone is relaxed and…

January 20, 2023

Sauntering through a neighborhood ladened with shortcuts was the world I loved as a 9-year-old. A trail of worn grass…

January 5, 2023

This is my dad, Edward William “Buster” Gibbons photographed in June 1990. You can’t see his face in this photo,…

January 4, 2023

The first photo shows my grandmother Edna Smith with her parents Harry and Mary and her two brothers Cyril and…

December 30, 2022

My grandmother, Bessie Gosling, was born in 1876, the tenth child and fourth daughter of Charles Gosling of Strawberry Hill.…

December 30, 2022

Two little boys in clothing of the period about 1909. The elder is Eugene or Eugenius Harvey who later became…

December 30, 2022

This portrait of Sarah Riddell was painted in 1753 by itinerant artist Joseph Blackburn when she was 17 or 18.…

December 30, 2022

This 1876 photograph appears in the book of James B Heyl photos published by Heyl’s daughter in 1951 so it…

December 23, 2022

1694-1758 This is a photograph of a portrait by Joseph Blackburn of John Harvey. It was painted about 1753, one…

December 23, 2022

Alpheus Zaccheus Saunders, patriarch and the eldest of 12 children, was born to Alpheus Charles Timothy Saunders and Jane Bennett…

December 13, 2022

Dockyard Apprentices As early as the 1940s and prior, 500 Bermudians worked at the H.M. Dockyard. Of this number, there…

December 12, 2022

My dad, Tim Perry, moved to Bermuda from England to work as a printer at Bermuda Press in 1993. My…

December 6, 2022

Aunt Eva, as she was known to many, never married or had children. Her children were the many students she…

An original architectural rendering, belonging to M.V. Wooley-Hart, from her Connecticut estate, 3 husbands after Arthur Wooley-Hart. I own the original. MVWH owned a private Island in Bermuda, pre WW-II. Unknown if this building actually existed.

October 18, 2022

This original architectural rendering from 1930, showing a Bermuda ‘Castle’. It belonged to M.V. Wooley-Hart, and was always in her…

October 2, 2022

During World War II, my father, Roy, was part of the Home Guard. He walked from our house, 7 Gables…

August 26, 2022

James “Jimmy” Minors was born on June 17th 1881 in St. David’s and died on May 2 1946. He was…

July 5, 2022

Simons family is based in the western end of the island of Bermuda. Naval field, Scott’s Hill and Beacon Hill…

July 1, 2022

The Williams family, patriarch John Williams born in St. Kitts in 1874, and matriarch, Mary Ann Williams (nee Smith) born…

April 28, 2022

Major Ashton N.O.D Rayner M.B.E head and founding member of the Bermuda Regiment Volunteer reserve introduces Princess Margret, Countess of…

April 2, 2022

On April 6, 1905 Pa gazed as his beautiful bride gracefully walked down the aisle. Alice was her name and…

April 1, 2022

My great grandmother is the beginning of my family’s story as far as I’m concerned. She was a single mother…

March 24, 2022

When I look at this photo of my grandmother, taken long before I was born, my heart is filled with…

March 22, 2022

The photo is of my great-great grandparents, John W.M. Gibbons and Harriet J.B. Pewtherer, married in 1904. John’s mother was…

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