One day there will be content worth reading here. In the meantime here is a link to 224, the newsletter of the Deddington & District History Society, which I have edited from the start and to photos of the village near Banbury where I live and to a map of my travels over the years.

I shall be adding information on the family trees and histories of the Cohens [including the MI6 bit], the Salamans [who were really Solomons and married the Harts, but were only vaguely connected to the ‘Lemon Harts’] and the Josephs [two inter-married familes]. An odditity is that in the nineteenth century the then unrelated Solomon family married Chief Rabbi Nathan Adler’s daughter Sarah. On the other ‘side’ of the family Nathan S Joseph was also brother-in-law to the Chief Rabbi, as his sister Rachel was married to him and it was only two generations later that the Josephs married a Solomon descendant. Then there are the Waterstons and the Campbells in due course. But be patient, the Campbells are coming! 

I also have a separate site devoted to missing portraits and there is one in development for my mother's paintings. I do not have a blog, but my ‘living-apartner’ does and it shows many of our activities and photos in it.

So, while I am at it I might as well mention my interest in T H Saunders, perhaps the biggest papermaker in nineteenth-century England and about whom very little was known until I started researching him so long ago that the latest thing in computers was the BBC micro.

Last modified 17 January 2011