Your Family Stories

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Category: Family History

  • Cost of Living is £2 a Head

    Letters from Australia Series: Letter 2 First Impressions In Flight Across the World, published on 22 August 2026 – the 60th anniversary of our arrival in Perth, Western Australia –…

  • Flight Across the World

    Letters from Australia Series: Letter 1 Our Family’s Big Move The 22nd of August 1966 plays a pivotal role in the story of our family. It was on this day,…

  • The Rockingham, the Leeders and My Mum’s Historical Novel

    When Fiction, Facts and Family Intertwine My mum was a writer – she always wrote. And she always wanted to write a book. As a child she wrote stories for…

  • The Chair in the Front Room

    Memories from a Home on Dinas Lane, Liverpool I was born in the front room of my paternal grandparents’ house at 82 Dinas Lane, Huyton. But that isn’t what makes…

  • The Silent Wedding That Filled a Burnley Church

    Image: Hannah Barnes, nee Cunliffe, with daughters Cissy and Gladys, circa 1920. A Victorian Wedding with a Difference On a September morning in 1877, an unusual crowd gathered at St…

  • The Wedding Photograph and the Letter

    The Photograph I love old photographs. My aunt has my Nana and Grandad’s family album, and in it I found a beautiful wedding photograph in which my Grandad is the…

  • Television, That Deadly Box!

    Introducing Mum: Writer, Poet and Storyteller My mum, Christine Lucas, was a writer. As a child, she filled notebook after notebook with her stories and read them to her six…

  • Motorcycle Tragedies and the Thompson Brothers

    Two Brothers – Two Accidents – Two Years Apart Nobody wants that knock on the door from the police telling them that a loved one has been killed in a…

  • Genealogy Gold!

    I love my distant cousins. I didn’t know most of them until I started researching my family tree. Over the years, I have corresponded with and met many cousins, having…

  • What Will Happen to the Horses?

    Inset image: Joseph Lucas – photo taken at the 1905 wedding of his daughter Mary Elizabeth (Lizzie) Royal Mail and the family story it brought me I was very excited…

  • Ancestral Warnings from Beyond the Grave

    The Surprising Stories Hidden in Family Death Certificates Have you ever visited a doctor who asked about your family’s health history? Questions like: “Is there any heart disease in your…

  • My Grandad and World War II – Values and Virtues

    Inset Image: Grandad, Stanley Lucas, onboard one of the many ships he sailed on during his Merchant Navy career If you could sit on this bench and speak with anyone…

  • Welcome to Your Family Stories

    It seems, the older we get, the more many of us yearn to understand and connect with our past. Where did we come from? Why do we live in a…

About

I’ve always had a fascination with history. When I was a child, one of the things I wanted to be when I grew up was an archaeologist. Now thinking about that, it’s really the stories from the past that intrigued me.

In recent years, I’ve been exploring my family history and have connected with newly found cousins around the world. I now know so much more about many of my ancestors and am enjoying telling their stories.

Karen – Perth, Western Australia Email – kaz747.thompson@gmail.com