Genealogy Blog
My great-great uncle Edward Absolom Pratt
This Remembrance Day, I take time to think of my great-great uncle, Edward Absolom Pratt, who died on 13th August 1915. Edward was born in Hornsey, Middlesex on 29th March 1870 to Thomas Henry Pratt,…
Family trees and Statutory Wills
Over recent months I have had an increasing number of instructions from solicitors to compile a family tree for an individual who has lost capacity, in relation to the preparation of a Statutory Will for…
Medals Reunited
My work as a genealogist and probate researcher is not just constrained to locating family members for financial gain or creating family trees, the skills and tools at my disposal can also reunite tangible objects…
Missing, feared dead for 20 years
Upon securing a new firm of solicitors as potential clients, I was handed a “test” case that had been sitting in the Private Client office for nearly 20 years. Our deceased lady, Mrs Camm, passed…
