I have decided to move the blog to Dreamhost, and as such this will probably take place this weekend. However, it is possible that any problems which may arise may cause downtime to extend into next week.
Please be patient and keep visiting baldockfaggfamily.org.uk next week until such time as you successfully reach it!
… Either that or this may completely disappear off the face of the planet!
I am currently investigating a better / more appropriate web host for this blog. My ISP’s present provision is restricting its advancement (PHP version, WordPress plugin requirements etc).
Current investigations suggest that Dreamhost may be a good bet (lots of stuff thrown in, unlimited databases, webspace & bandwidth). Does anyone have any experience with them? Any other recommendations also welcome.
But don’t worry – plenty of notice will be given before I move the site (again!)
A very belated thankyou must go to Wendy from New Zealand (apologies, Wendy!). Thanks to Wendy, who provided me with photos of some HATTON ancestors and comprehensive WANSTALL and HATTON trees, I have been able to make great inroads into these families. Her information regarding books written by Professor Barry Reay of Auckland University has proved invaluable, and contact with Barry himself lead me to purchase his book titled “Microhistories: Demography, society and culture in rural England, 1800-1930” (ISBN 0-521-89222-8). This focuses on rural society around the Boughton, Blean and Dunkirk areas near Canterbury, and includes wonderful family trees – which include my FULLER and WANSTALL ancestors!
I have started reading another of his books first, though, namely “Rural Englands: Labouring Lives in the Nineteenth Century” (ISBN 0-333-66919-3), which covers rural life in sections of England (hence “Englands”) as a whole.
I have since spent many days (and still am) tracing WANSTALL families – not helped by there being three generations called Benjamin Wanstall, and other cousins/in-laws using the name too! I am also trying to pick my way through a recently found website:
http://wanstallkentandbeyond.com
Go along – and tell them I sent you!
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