Tracing Family Branches

 Our beautiful Isabella Margaret Drake passed away on the 21st of January 2024.  She was a wonderful girl and beloved by all of the family.  Bella joined our family in 2012, our daughter wanted a King Charles Cavalier Spaniel and we went and looked at one in a nearby town.  She fell in love with a male dog which she named Benji and I fell in love with Isabella, the only problem was we had Toby and Charlie already at home, so sadly it did not look like she would join our family.  My daughter’s friend fell in love with her too and so it was arranged that in a couple of weeks time she would take home Isabella and our daughter would get her brother Benji.  Time passed and they finally went and picked up Bella and Benny, only to find out later that night that my daughter’s friend’s landlords now would not let her have a dog.  As soon as he found out what had happened my husband said we would take and pay for her and she would become a member of our family. ...

Well it has been a very long time between posts!  Life has been busy with house renovations, homeschooling and family illnesses and will probably continue to be again this year but I do hope to research and post more over the coming months.  I apologise to anyone whose comments I have not yet responded to, my iPad and Blogger do not seem to want to work together at the moment. With the New Year comes new goals and this year I have quite a few;  - I want to get more information on my husband’s grandfather William Martin and his family, including ordering a photograph from Singapore of him.   - I want to try and knockdown the brick wall with James Harvey Murray’s origins and real name?   - There is a file in the archives in the UK regarding Helen Murray that I want to order.  -  I want to uncover more about George and Margaret Wallace and their family. - I want to update and organise more of my online trees! - I want to connect DNA matches to people and ...