- Part Five: 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 the final chapter, Part Five: James and Laura Mackie as I research the social history of the Mackie family and uncover the breakdown of the Mackie family and Laura’s […]
- 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 […]
- Tryals of Seven Witches Mention the subject of ‘Witch Trials’ to an historian and almost inevitably the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 comes to their mind. Between February 1692 and May 1693, fourteen women and five men were tried for practicing witchcraft, found guilty and were subsequently executed by hanging in Salem, Massachusetts. But although the Salem Trials are perhaps the […]