Family

April 25, 2024

Jean Rayner at 22 years old, 1945. My grandmother, Jean Gentha Catherine Rayner (nee.Minors) was born November 3 1923 in…

March 12, 2024

My great-grandmother, Annie Eliza Outerbridge Smith

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

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…

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