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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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