Tag: Family History
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A Log Cabin Mystery
It all began with a single photograph. Two of my ancestors standing proudly outside their log cabin home. Logs and sticks woven together to create a warm cradle where they would raise their children… presumably. Did they have children? It was a mystery. See, this heavily deteriorated photograph was the only trace of these ancestors…
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Happy Pride! 1826, 1926, 2026, and Beyond!
In her 1999 book All About Love, bell hooks offers up M. Scott Peck’s definition of love as one of the few clear literary explanations of love in our society. For Peck, love is “the will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth.” In a sense, this…
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The Organiser: Elizabeth Margaret Davies of Kensington, London (1882–1946)
Elizabeth Margaret Davies, commonly known as Bessie, grew up among the rolling, green hills of the Teifi Valley in west Wales. She was the eldest daughter of the well-known Davies’ of Velindre House. But when the chaos of World War I arrived at the shores of Britain, the familiy mobilised in any way they could.…
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Cellan’s Lending Library: Education in a Small Welsh Place
It was a day like any other in the Welsh parish of Cellan, September 25th, 1765, when a small iron chest arrived at the doors of All Saints’ Anglican Church. A special delivery, the first of its kind, for the Rev. Williams. Heavy, despite its size, the chest was lugged onto a sturdy wooden pew…