Featured Image: Long Bridge over the River Derwent in the 1930s via Derbyshire Live (Continued from previous posts Bigamy Blues and Bigamy Blues Part 2) Records show that Reuben and…
Bigamy Blues – Part 2
(Continued from previous post – Bigamy Blues) Tragic Story The revelation that her new husband was actually a bigamist must have been very upsetting for Reuben Lamb’s new bride, Mary.…
Bigamy Blues
A while ago, while researching the Lamb family, I stumbled across a few newspaper articles regarding the trial and conviction of a family member for bigamy in 1947. Obviously I…
An Ebbans By Any Other Name
The Ebbans surname is not a particularly common one. Spelling is a relatively recent convention so I’m used to seeing names spelled in a variety of ways in records –…
Grave Matters
In Port Chalmers Cemetery, there is a headstone for married couple, Alexander Ritchie Buchan & Agnes Buchan (nee Findlay) – but only one of them was actually buried in that…