#52ancestors (Wk14): Begins with a Vowel – Emily Charlotte Vickery

Pepé the pet poodle is pretty emblematic of the challenge facing us in getting a grip on the personality of my Mum’s Mum’s Mum, my great grandmother Emily Charlotte Vickery (1901-1967). To my Mum and her two sisters (pictured below), she was their sweet Nan who was missing an eye due to a wood-chopping accident, …

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#52ancestors (Wk12): Membership – Arthur Vickery

The case of my 2x great grand uncle Arthur Vickery is of particular interest because he married somewhat beyond the immediate agricultural labourer set of his family in Elvetham, Hampshire, UK where he was raised. In doing so he could be said to secure membership of wholly different ‘set’ by marrying the daughter of a …

#52ancestors (Wk11): Lucky – Elizabeth Vickery

The Vickery family line flows back from my Mum’s Mum’s Mum’s side of my family tree and is one of the lines I can trace furthest back, with still further promise. I am on pretty solid foundations going back to at least my 8x great grandparents John Vickery (1675-1737) and Elizabeth Page (1675-1729) of Bentley, …