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At last we have another contributor to the family Wiki!
Today Julie Gould contributed to a page on Alfred William Green (1839-1886), which makes the family wiki what it is meant to be — a collaborative family project in which various family members contribute to build up our picture of the family. So today is a [...]
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A Beningfield family group has recently been started on Facebook.
This is interesting to us because many of the South African Beningfields are related to us (though we are not descended from Beningfields) through Louisa Flamme, who married Samuel Beningfield in Cape Town in 1833.
In the early 1840s the family moved to Durban, and Samuel Beningfield [...]
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Greg Growden is better known as a rugby writer, but it seems that he writes about cricket too. I’m not sure which branch of the Growden family he belongs to — does anybody know? Several branches of the Growdens went to Australia.
clipped from www.cricketweb.net
In 1991 I stumbled across a little paperback book called A Wayward [...]
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My grandmother was Janet McCartney Growdon, born Hannan (1882-1946). She died a couple of days before my 5th birthday, so I have only a few childhood memories of her, and of going to visit her and my grandfather at McKenzie Road in Durban, where they lived. In their back garden was a big avocado pear [...]
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Some statistics about recent visitors to this blog:
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United States
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South Africa
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United Kingdom
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New Zealand
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Australia
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France
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Canada
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Denmark
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Germany
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India
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Norway
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Netherlands
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Brazil
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Russian Federation
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Malaysia
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Indonesia
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I spent another few hours in the LDS family history centre in Johannesburg yesterday looking at marriage registers for St Neot, Cornwall.
I knew that some Growdens came from there through my third cousin once removed, Monica Louise Deragowski of New Orleans, USA.
When we started researching our family history we didn’t know anything about the Growdens [...]
Filed under: Growden family, family history, genealogical research, genealogy | Tagged: Cornwall families, Growden family, Growdon family, Monica Deragowski, St Neot Cornwall, Sylvia Reebel | 2 Comments »
