The posts here cover more general discussion about my research.
I have also written up each of my common ancestors in detail on their own page.
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A Burgher/Singhalese connection – The tale of Edmund Reginald Templer I
Edmund Reginald Templer was born in Kandy, Sri Lanka on the 7th July 1848. His father Henry Templer was working as a magistrate there. Henry was born and bred in Devon, England as the illegitimate son of George Templer… Read more
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Is this our Alice? Further tales of Alice Caroline Fisher
When I started writing about Alice Daniell nee Fisher (sister to the famous Sea Lord Jack Fisher) I only had the one photograph that was basically of the top of Alice’s head. I then had a trawl through the… Read more
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A “Ceylon” tragedy – The tale of Alice Caroline Fisher
Alice Caroline Fisher was born in about 1843 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. She was the second born child of William Fisher and Sophia (nee Lambe). Her older brother Jack Fisher was later First Sea Lord in the British Navy… Read more
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A youth’s journey to “Ceylon” – The tale of Henry Templer
Although I believed I had researched my direct ancestor Henry Templer a few years ago, I realise now that I had not thought about him very deeply at all. I knew from Andrew Templer’s very fine Templer website that… Read more
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How many little fishes? The tale of Albert Bertram Fisher (Arthur)
Today I was sent an additional biography of Lord Fisher by Robert Hough (1869). It is much kinder to both Fisher parents than the later biographies – apparently it was the official biography. As I browsed through the family… Read more
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The tale of Lucy Ellen Fisher
Yesterday evening I was yet again struggling to complete my Fisher Tree this time looking for one of William’s children the elusive Lucy Ellen and again asked on the ancestry group facebook group. They have have some mighty fine… Read more
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Top tip – don’t forget to read Wills … more fishing for Fishers.
I spent a lot of yesterday getting nowhere with finding the families of William Fisher’s siblings. I like to do a tree on the page of each person showing the wider family so that I get a sense of… Read more
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Where did Jack Fisher live aged aged 6 – 13 ?
I recently read through all the biographies of Fisher that I could get my hands on (Mckay , Cassie , Morris, Freeman) there is little reference to where Fisher was in the UK when he arrived from Sri Lanka.… Read more
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Updating the Jack Fisher Entry on Wikipedia
Was suprised to find a number of errors on the Wikipedia page about Jack Fisher today so I got embroiled in editing it. My suggestions were all rejected straight off – heh. So I starting working out how to… Read more
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Twins, tree’s and other musings while drawing
I have spent some of this last week drawing out family tree’s by hand. I have really enjoyed it. There is something of an art to planning out how to put a tree onto a piece of paper. If… Read more
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