I have already written about the letters that my grandmother, Mildred Howe, received from her mother but I also have three others that were sent to her by an earlier ancestor - my great great grandmother, Sophia Grant. Sophia Grant Sophia was born in 1845 in St Giles, Oxford where her father, William Grant, was… Continue reading Written
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In the News
My great grandfather, Walter Henry Howe, and his father, John Howe, both feature regularly in newspaper reports of court hearings, but thankfully as witnesses rather than in the dock as they were both gamekeepers and the cases involve poachers. The gamekeeper’s role was to manage the wildlife on their employer’s estate to ensure that there… Continue reading In the News
Sleuthing Notes 