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…

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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)…

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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…

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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…

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January 24, 2023

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

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January 24, 2023

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

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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…

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January 5, 2023

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

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January 4, 2023

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

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December 30, 2022

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

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December 30, 2022

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

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December 30, 2022

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

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