The Somme offensive in 1916 was one of the biggest and bloodiest battles of the First World War. With well over one million casualties and 300,000 fatalities, the five-month battle finally came to an …
Photo of McFadden Family Glarryford
An interesting follow-up to the last week's article about an infamous Glarryford collector of other folks' property. A reader writes: The photo being referred to, is this one, …
Thomas Given – A Song for February
UPDATE - getting very slowly caught up with old emails. Doing lots of photoshop and research work most evenings. Works in progress on Warwick, Gilmore, Kearney, O'Reilly, Bamford, Thompson, Father …
Samuel Fee Given – Reminiscences
Before I begin. I think everything is now fully functioning again, after the switch to the new website server. Emails appear to have been caught up with. I hope that I have not missed responding to …
Patrick Given – Somebody Thinking of You
✦ Ah, speech may be fettered, but thought is free. And so it will fly to you. Patrick Given Through the long lock-down of last year, when the world had gone quiet and there was little to …
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Edward Taylor of Cullybackey
Ken Wells, from Maryland, in the USA, would love to get more information on the Taylor part of his family tree in Cullybackey. The Taylors are buried in the Craigs churchyard just outside the …