Category Archives: Orchard Family History

The prompt this month for 52 Ancestors is Identity. Solving the Mystery of Cyril Clyde Orchard When my mother-in-law Leslie died in 2013, I inherited a very large box of her family history research. She had spent many of her retirement hours researching my husband’s paternal lines, but her father-in-law, my husband’s paternal grandfather, CyrilContinue reading “52 Ancestors – Identity”

The decline of the woollen mills in Bradford- Upon- Avon was likely a contributing factor in my husband’s fourth great grandfather, George Orchard, deciding to leave the UK and move his family to Australia in search of a better life. George Orchard and Caroline Mallett George Orchard was born in Bradford-Upon-Avon, (Bradford) Wiltshire England inContinue reading “Week 20 – Textile”

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that the following post contains names of people who have died. I racked my brain to come up with something to write about for this weeks prompt. I didn’t have any actual negatives to take a look at so I couldn’t focus my attention on that. ThenContinue reading “Week 16- Negatives”