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Julie_Gfamily

@juliegfamily.bsky.social
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Family historian and One Place Study researcher of Long Buckby Wharf and Boat Families of the Grand Junction Canal. Former library assistant, collector of many crafts.

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Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I grew up on stories of Henry Blogg. Henry Blogg was a lifeboatman at Cromer who couldn't FUCKING SWIM. His gallantry won him a BUNCH of medals (go look him up or read Cyril Jolly's biography). He went out to sea in a glorified rowboat. Over and over again.
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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Gatliff Close Heritage Project Team has registered Gatliff Buildings, Westminster One-Place Study with us! As Gatliff Close (originally Gatliff Buildings) marks its 160th anniversary in 2027, this #OnePlaceStudy explores the history of the place and the people who called it home. #OnePlaceWednesday
Gatliff Buildings, Westminster One-Place Study. 
Image: Four photos are superimposed on a background image, an old map on which the River Thames and Earls Court can be made out. The photos are from left to right: A small black and white picture of a bearded, bespectacled man; a black and white photo of a four-storey housing block, with a group of people (mostly children) standing on the open ground in front of it; a colour photo, presumably taken from the top of a taller building nearby, of the same building; a colour photo showing a street sign for Gatliff Road, SW1. 
URL: www.one-place-studies.org/studies/ 
One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.
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Jane Hough 🌳🧬🏡 @allthosebefore.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
My cousin is at the helm of this D Class inshore lifeboat. He served with the #RNLI in Cornwall for over 30 years, mostly as crew / helm, but more recently as launch authority. If you’re able to make a donation to help save lives at sea, here’s the link. rnli.org/support-us/g...
A picture of an inshore lifeboat making its way out to sea through a very heavy swell.
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Julie_Gfamily @juliegfamily.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I worked for the RNLI for 9 years, supporting the training of crew, lifeguards and staff. I met many crew volunteers, all of whom were far better human beings than the fascist thugs attacking them. Crew put their life on the line everytime they go to sea. Please support them rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The RNLI have some of the best people in Britain volunteering for them. They put their lives on the line when they are called on and they will rescue anyone who needs them. Because every life matters, and offering help is the right thing to do. You can donate here: rnli.org
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RNLI - Royal National Lifeboat Institution - Saving Lives at Sea
The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea. We do this through lifeboat search and rescue, lifeguards, water safety education and international interventions.
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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Not a #OnePlaceStudy registered with us, but one that I discovered while looking for material for #OnePlaceWednesday. It has a website which is being actively updated – do check out Sturminster Newton One Place Study. I have linked to one of the site’s Photos pages as that generates a preview image.
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Sturminster Newton photos - Sturminster Newton One Place Study
More photos of St Mary’s church Last updated:
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Mish J Holman @mishjholman.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Coming soon to Waterstones, Amazon and Pen & Sword. For the genealogy community, it is my greatest wish for this book, that it might help you untie the knot in your research to reveal that elusive relative. #Genealogy #Ancestry
A promo image for the book A History of the Census Takers by Mish J Holman for Pen & Sword. The book jacket features a coloured illustration of an enumerator visiting a gypsy encampment. The book cover is shown against a grey background with the words A History of the Census Takers: Recording the Nations shown in white, with the author's name Mish J Holman shown in pale green.
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
so if Interview with the Vampire is canonically set in our universe, you're telling us there's a chance that Lestat de Lioncourt *did* visit The Museum of English Rural Life
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Andy Whiting @awdorset.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Lady St Mary in Wareham - standing at the gateway to the Isle of Purbeck, just back from Wareham Quay and the River Frome. Built on the site of the C8th Saxon minster, a small south chapel of C12th and some early C14th century elements in the chancel. The nave was rebuilt in C19th. #Dorset
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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
It's #WorldEmojiDay! Here are some registered #OnePlaceStudy places with emojis—used creatively in some cases—replacing parts of their names. Can you work out all the names? 🐜ro🚌 💪🏻itage and 🤲🏻acre 🐍all 🐈thorpe 🦌ham Dreg📯 🐸nall Ivy🌉 😷 by the 🌊 N🐜wich 🖊️rith 👞bury ⭐botton Stiff🔑 The 🦁🦁, 🌉💧 💧💧 ⬆️ton 🌬️👁️er
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Julie_Gfamily @juliegfamily.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Got brain into gear & ordered the death cert. My theory was correct! Newspaper named father as Charles when he was actually Richard. Which matches the theory I was going with 👍 #OnePlaceWednesday
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Julie_Gfamily @juliegfamily.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
#OnePlaceWednesday trying to track a #BoatFamily who are being very elusive. Got a burial, death reg & article for child. Article full of names but can't find them. Now working on theory that newspaper completely mucked up parent names and I need to look for different people. Too hot for this!
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Julie_Gfamily @juliegfamily.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Easy! (Joking, very messy!) William Taylor m Martha Darby who previously m Jacob Taylor. William Taylor m Martha Webb. And oops also found a Joseph Taylor m Rose Hannah Darby. All boatmen and Joseph & the first William are probably brothers. #OnePlaceWednesday #BoatFamilies
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Pam Smith LHG @genejean.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
📍On the ground in #Rillington My latest blog explores a small stream which may have contributed to the place name. It’s one of many stories from the landscape, people & history of the parish from earliest origins to the railway age. #OnePlaceWednesday www.rillingtonhistory.com/on-the-groun...
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ON THE GROUND IN RILLINGTON: THE RILL AT SLEDGATE - Rillington History
The footbridge at Sledgate crossing one of the small streams (Rills) that run through Rillington.
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Julie_Gfamily @juliegfamily.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
#OnePlaceWednesday I've just discovered that I've got 2x William Taylor boatmen who both married a Martha & I have got them well & truly mixed up🤦‍♀️ This is why I work them out on paper first before adding them to the tree! Stitch & natter tonight so will clear my mind before sorting this mess!
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Julie_Gfamily @juliegfamily.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Excellent. To add to my John Jones boatmen, I now have a William Williams. And of course they're mostly based in Cheshire. Think I might just ignore that one for a while😂 #OnePlaceStudies #BoatFamilies
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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Another recently registered #OnePlaceStudy is Barbara Harwood’s Ballywalter and Greyabbey OPS, which will look at this parish in County Down, Northern Ireland. #OnePlaceWednesday
Ballywalter and Greyabbey One-Place Study. 
Image: Colour photo of part of Main Street in Ballywalter. The road stretches from the bottom right coner of the picture to the centre of the image (it is then obscured by parked vehicles).  Small parts of buildings (including a church) and their frontages can be seen on the left side of the picture; a variety of residential and commercial buildings of various heights (mostly two storeys but at least one of one storey) can be seen on the other side of the road. Above is a blue, cloudless sky. 
One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.
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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Steve Pickthall’s #OnePlaceStudy of Shrivenham Railway Station has recently been registered with us! Located in a part of #Berkshire that is now in #Oxfordshire, the station opened in 1840 and closed in 1964/5. Check out Steve’s OPS website and our OPS profile page. #OnePlaceWednesday
Shrivenham Station One-Place Study. 
Image: A reproduction of a Great Western Railway ticket for Shrivenham. Black text of a pink background. 
One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.
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Dr Jamie Gallagher @jamiebgall.co.uk · 02/06/2026
It’s Pride 🏳️‍🌈 Spare one repost for a small creator? 🥺 My science and sci fi pins raise money for homeless LGBTQ+ people. Just sent another £800 to @aktcharity.bsky.social bringing total to £47,521 New for Pride 2026: 🌈Scientist🌈 🏳️‍🌈🐥🦜🦅🏳️‍🌈 🌈pronouns🌈 www.jamiebgall.co.uk/shop
Pin badge “scientist” in rainbow motif Two bird pins. A series if birds sitting on a branch. Each bird is the colour of a stripe on the rainbow flag. Pronoun pins with rainbow motif:
She her 
He him 
She they 
He they 
They them An array of pride themed science and sci fi pins.
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Julie_Gfamily @juliegfamily.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Just done today's wordle. Got it in 2 💪 Little bit too easy for me today🤣😉
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Julie_Gfamily @juliegfamily.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The day job today was spent cataloguing obituaries. Can't tell you who or the collection I'm working with but I can say that you really want your person of interest to end up with an obit in the Telegraph or the Times. So much info, career stuff, genealogical, gold dust all of it! #FamilyHistory
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Julie_Gfamily @juliegfamily.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Today in #BoatFamilies research I'm trying to untangle the life of 1 man & his 4 wives. Only found the 4th one thanks to a newspaper report on her death. Wife 3 only has a first name because I can't find a marriage. Wives 2 and 4 were both previously married too, it's getting messy! #OnePlaceStudies
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Julie_Gfamily @juliegfamily.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
@allthosebefore.bsky.social have you watched the latest series of Canal Boat Diaries? Robbie is travelling around Wales and Cheshire. Lots of mentions of the salt carrying boats! #FamilyHistory
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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Did the railway come to (or close to) your #OnePlaceStudy? If so, when did that happen and what were its impacts on your Place and its people? #OnePlaceWednesday
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Dorset Phil @dorsetphil.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Good morning folks! It's the First of June which means it's Dorset Day, the feast day of Saint Wite whose shine is in the Church of St Candida and Holy Cross in Whitchurch Cannonicorum #Dorset
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Julie_Gfamily @juliegfamily.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
On this day 29 May 1916 2 men from #BoatFamilies died in France. Richard Sidwell died of wounds and is buried at Aubigny. Henry Houghton was killed in action and is remembered at Thiepval. They can be found here app.weare.xyz/public/boat-... #OnePlaceStudies
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World War 1 Roll of Honour
We Are [showcasing your family history like never before]
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Julie_Gfamily @juliegfamily.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Several names remembered here are boatmen, or are from #BoatFamilies. The men I've already researched can be found here app.weare.xyz/public/boat-...
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
After a mammal is a juvenile, they are an adult. But what are they after they are an adult? In seven species of mammal, including humans, life has a third act for females. We are underreacting to menopause.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Our society is obsessed with adolescence—all the stories, all the media, all the romanticization and horror of it—because it is the only metamorphosis cis males go through, and metamorphosis is legitimately a big deal. But people with uteruses go through a second one, and it is ignored.
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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 15/05/2026
News | Wellcome Collection to return 2,000 manuscripts in landmark agreement Museum says Jain texts were acquired ‘against the best interests of their original owners’
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Wellcome Collection to return 2,000 manuscripts in landmark agreement - Museums Association
Museum says Jain texts were acquired ‘against the best interests of their original owners’
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Julie_Gfamily @juliegfamily.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The trace and detect team will be here on 4 June. Yep another 3 weeks at least of wet floor, no furniture, no computer, no research. Good news is that my new crochet blanket is coming on nicely because I can't do anything else!
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Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
This is the public page of The Hub and content will be added regularly. #Shropshire app.weare.xyz/public/the-s... Hopefully with this repository we can bring together the little bits of history for areas that I know many people have or taken images of that may be lost to time if not careful.
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The Shropshire Family History Hub
We Are [showcasing your family history like never before]
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Julie_Gfamily @juliegfamily.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Current state of my sitting room. Camp chairs and table are our dining furniture right now. Turns out we have a second leak, probably from the mains pipe. So sadly no Destinations article on water from me because I'm dealing with the real thing! #OnePlaceStudies
Photograph of my sitting room, showing a wet concrete floor, stepladder, a stool, plastic table, and camp chair. Currently the only furniture in there. Dehumidifier is in the background.
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Julie_Gfamily @juliegfamily.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
No #OnePlaceWednesday for me😭 Central heating has 2 leaks in the concrete floor so we now have an empty sitting room while the floor dries. No books, no computer, no research. No sanity! It's chaos here🤪
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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I’ve seen the reasons given for the poor quality of the 1921 census transcriptions (and why so few were picked up before the release of the records), and up to a point I accept them. However in January 2022 FMP said they'd “correct any and all errors over time.” Progress seems glacially slow.
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Findmypast promises to fix 1921 census transcription errors | Who Do You Think You Are Magazine
Findmypast admitted “we have been unable to conduct the same level of quality assurance checks we would normally apply”
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Julie_Gfamily @juliegfamily.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
#OnePlaceStudies #FamilyHistory And reporting yet another transcription error on FMP's 1921 Census. Just how did they think that was an acceptable transcription?!
Clip of FindMyPast 1921 Census transcription which lists Occupation as Canal Rrotaman and Employer as Shrockpere Man.Clip of 1921 Census record on FindMyPast. Occupation is retired canal boatman last employed. Employer is Shropshire Union.
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Vikki Slade MP @vikkislademp.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Today I have launched my petition so that local people can have their voices heard. I will be presenting this petition in Parliament. If you want to ensure that Upton Heath is protected for nature and for the community you can sign the petition by heading to my website: www.vikkislade.uk
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Dorset Wildlife Trust @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
🚨 SAVE UPTON HEATH 🚨 Dorset Wildlife Trust is urgently raising funds to protect vital internationally important heathland at risk. ⚠️ Home to rare species such as smooth snake and Dartford warbler, this special place could be lost. Donate and share 💚👉 bit.ly/4mbKIqQ ~ Jack
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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Place envy. It's a thing.
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Mish J Holman @mishjholman.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
My book about the census is now available for preordering! Do check it out here: www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Recording-th... #Genealogy #Ancestry
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Recording the Nations
Every census entry tells a story, but beyond these invaluable records lies another. Recording the Nations takes readers behind the scenes of Britain’s census from…
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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I refer you to my reply to one of your previous posts! 😂
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Julie_Gfamily @juliegfamily.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
#OnePlaceStudies Managed to prove it! Spelling is MEES or MEESE, take your pick. Unfortunately I've also found another John Meese boatman, totally separate to this one. And both of them married a Hannah & had kids in the same place/time frame. Don't mind me, I'm just over here sobbing quietly😱
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Julie_Gfamily @juliegfamily.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
#OnePlaceStudies Looks like my #BoatFamilies tree has just collapsed even further. Extremely high possibility that John Mays, John Mees, and John Meese are actually the same person. All I have to do is prove it! (and choose the 'correct' spelling!)
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Alt: a woman with curly hair sits at a table slowly banging her head on the table with memethemovie.com written below her
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Julie_Gfamily @juliegfamily.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
#OnePlaceWednesday I found this WW1 Memorial site for Tipton men, frankly the best site I've found so far. The Search facility allows you to search for a keyword, not just a name. Searching for address, regiment, or occupation 😍 brings up loads of results. I've found another potential 50 boatmen!
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Tipton Remembers
Remembering the men (and one woman) of Tipton who lost their lives due to action in WW1. Access to individual’s detail by Surname | Memorial | Date | or Regimen
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Adrie van der Luijt @traumainformedcontent.com · 16/03/2026
My new website is now live as a soft launch, but only as a very basic site. That’s okay. I remember doing this with Visit Nunney and everyone laughed. Then it went on to win awards, receive praise from top museums and beat insanely well-funded, agency-run websites within a few years. Early days.
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Bankside Heritage — South London's hidden history
From Roman roads to Elizabethan bear pits, Victorian warehouses to today's cranes on the skyline — the history of Bankside, told street by street.
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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
All About That Place returns this year, running from Wednesday 7th October to Friday 16th October! @sogorg.bsky.social is now calling for speakers who can provide pre-recorded or live talks of around 10 minutes, tying in with the event’s daily themes. #AATP26 #FamilyHistory #LocalHistory #GenHour
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All About That Place – call for speakers - Society of Genealogists
Piloting in 2023, the event hit social media with a bang and creating an immediate buzz. It garnered large audiences, with 28,900 video views on YouTube alone and 600,000 impressions! 718 people subsc...
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Jaundiced Brains @johnnymains.co.uk · 11/03/2026
MISLAID BOOKS now has a bluesky account. @mislaidbooks.bsky.social Be grand if you could give it a follow.
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Graeme Coles-Andrew @genealogygraeme.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I have asked my old school @bedfordschool.bsky.social to join in this project, as they are a BSA member. The Bedford School Roll of Honour is already transcribed here: heritage.bedfordschool.org.uk/authenticate...
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Bedford School
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