- Cyclone in the Indian Ocean The ship Pendragon, an iron vessel of 1278 tons register, was owned by Messrs MacDiarmid, Greenshields, and Co., of Drury-buildings, Drury-lane of Liverpool. On 9 February 1876, the Pendragon left Calcutta, bound for Havre, and about a month after leaving port, she encountered a cyclone in the Indian Ocean. During the storm, Captain Charles Symons was […]
- Part Four: James and Laura Mackie I have recently broken through a brick wall in my genealogical research and have found out what happened to my great-grand aunt, Laura Jane Williams. Join me in Part Four: James and Laura Mackie as I research the social history of the Mackie family on the Isle of Wight and follow James into the Tochi […]
- Part Two: James and Laura Mackie I have recently broken through a brick wall in my genealogical research and have found out what happened to my great-grand aunt, Laura Jane Williams. Join me in Part Two: James and Laura Mackie as I research the social history of the family of Laura’s husband, James Mackie and follow her father-in-law, David Douglas Mackie, into battle during the […]
- Part One: James and Laura Mackie I have recently broken through a brick wall in my genealogical research and have found out what happened to my great-grand aunt, Laura Jane Williams. Join me in Part One: James and Laura Mackie as I research the social history of the family of Laura’s husband, James Mackie. James Douglas Mackie On 24 November 1885, James Douglas Mackie, the […]
- Bond Family Chronicles Chapter Two The London chapter of the Bond family chronicles takes us back another generation to Laura’s parents, William and Jessie Bond who married despite the difference in their ages and stayed together until death they did part despite the tragedy in their story. The Royal Artillery life was a hard one, and especially so for the few wives […]
- Siege of Lucknow By 1857, India was all but ruled by the East India Company who traded from India on behalf of the British government, their authority was enforced by the army with some 45,000 British soldiers and another 230,000 Indian Sepoys. Even as British infrastructure expanded in India with a network of roads, railways and telegraph lines, […]