Lovely weekend at Mum and Dad's, and got some more family tree info to go in, more below.
Lovely to see lots of people, number two son got some nice birthday presents and we did some good eating. Great dinner in on Friday night (I took the afternoon off and we raced down there straight after school, in the dark and the rain). Saturday we managed to get Clare a new coat in Snow And Rock1 in port solent then had a smashing dinner in Prezzo. Mum and Dad kindly took the boys home and put them to bed so Clare and I could stay on and have a drink. Splendid! Then a huge cooked breakfast the next day and not a bad drive home.
I found the hotel that my Nan stayed in during the war, when she was an evacuee (though an unofficial one), it's the Hallamshire House in Sheffield. Also when doing some updates on Dad's computer we found a "there are smart matches for this person" on his family tree programme. It found a link for our James Cole Clarke through someone else's family tree who was linked to the name Irish. They have the same details going up the tree that we do, even the same mistake in the date of birth of our James the first so they might have taken that from these pages... they have a tonne more on the Irish family though, who James Cole Clarke's daughter Elizabeth married in to.
We were looking at these as I'm still convinced this is our James Clarke, which gives us a load more family for free...
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Hmm those links off to the twitter are a bit faulty there, it's some side effect of the family tree gedcom update, where it says @ N17 @ that should be a reference to a note or a reference with ID 17, I'll fix that...
UPDATE: and fixed those dodgy references.
Clarke tree, and connecting branches and roots, from Hampshire, UK to the Titanic and beyond. We have links for the name CLARKE obviously, so many others, see the whole list. If you have a link into our family tree, or would like to put out a request for tree stuff assistance, email pauly @ this domain I will try to help... The site is also home to my weblog, with links to all the things I like. It's all about me, my wife + our amazing boys... Also the usual things, work, TV, running, ect ect, + links to my fun projects.