William Felt Fitz was born in 1804 in Gloucester Massachusetts. He died in 1880 in Manchester Massachusetts. He married Eunice Croft Baker, a Manchester girl, in 1833. They had several children, only 1, Mary survived to adulthood.,
Day: December 7, 2021
Profiles of my Ancestors – 5 – My Great Great Grandfather Samuel Kimball Friend Jr.
Samuel K Friend Jr. was born in Cambridge Massachusetts in 1806 and he died in Gloucester Massachusetts. A life span that covered the 19th century. In 1832 he married Abigail Hinds Reed Brown Abigail lived from 1804-1894. Their son Daniel Alfred Friend was born 1843, died 1892..
The Pleasures of Facebook – A photograph from WWII
Broadsides - A collection of bits and pieces
I belong to this group on Facebook, Gibraltar Old photos 2 it’s called. It a nostalgia group whose members, mostly from Gibraltar, post old photographs of life on and around and about the Rock. I lived there once and have many happy and treasured memories upon which I once contributed a piece to the site, some years ago, about being a boy in 1950’s Gibraltar. You can read it here. I still contribute to the site now and then, and to that purpose I was searching google for a film poster of a movie, made in Gibraltar in the early ‘60’s, staring Terry Thomas and called “Operation Snatch”. You need to be a bit careful what you type into google at times!

In my search I stumbled across this lovely old photograph the caption of which read “Gibraltar families returning to Gibraltar in 1945 after five years of evacuation…
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