ROFL, what a fantastic title for a new blog, especially when you know it's a Family History blog about our Horrocks & Hunter ancestors :O) Chris thought up this clever title and guess what ... she's made me Creative Director!! I just hope I can live up to her expectations ;O) I had better pull my finger out this winter and do some serious family history research!! It would have been so much easier if I had done the research when we lived in the High Peak of Derbyshire instead of leaving it until we moved to the Isle of Wight. We lived on the border of Lancasire, Derbyshire & Yorkshire too, how annoying. Never mind, what's done is done!! A trip on the mainland is out of the question too as we're saving like mad to pay for our holiday next year. Oooo Jamaica mon! I digress. The first rule in Family History is, ask the family, which I did a few years ago. I drove my Auntie Joan round the bend :O) She's my Dad's eldest sister and she spent the most time with the Horrocks clan as a child. (My Dad always went to his Mum's family in Chesterfield.) The only information I could glean about George Hunter Horrocks and his wife Sara Mason Smith were their birth dates and the names of their children. I asked everyone I could think of for photographs of family members but the only ones I received were of my own Great Grandmother, Lily, from my Mum & Dad. Here's one of them :O)
Lily died, aged 81, when I was about 2 years old. Mum & Dad had made her my God Mother when I was christened.
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