This photograph was taken in August 1947 at a party to celebrate the 21st birthday of my mother, Ruth Betty Ada Cullingford. She is pictured in the centre holding the cake, with my father, Norman Maitland, behind her – they were engaged to be married the following year. Jack Cullingford, my maternal grandfather, is standing on… Continue reading Favourite Photo
Author: Emma Maitland
In the Beginning
In 2001, my father read a newspaper article that announced the publication of the 1901 Scotland census online, and he asked me to see if I could find the family of his mother, Flora Clark. She had died when he was a small child and he knew almost nothing about her beyond the information recorded in… Continue reading In the Beginning
Introduction
I've been researching my family history for almost 25 years now and I think it's high time that I started to share what I have discovered. The ancestors that I will write about over the next twelve months are mostly ordinary people who lived unglamorous lives, but they sometimes did extraordinary things, regularly overcame great… Continue reading Introduction
Sleuthing Notes 