In searching for more information about my ancestors,I find that one of them, a female, was burned at the stake. She, Lady Margaret Oswald, was my 13th Great Grandmother. She followed the Lollard faith, which was considered heretical in the 15th century. She was born in 1448, died on December 12th 1476 in Cambridge England. Death at the stake was not a new form of execution. But it was persistently used in the 15th and 16th centuries. Many many men and women suffered and were executed for their faith in this horrific manner in earlier times
Joan of Arc (credit to Wikipedia)
I found this photo recently in my mother’s archive, My grandfather is with his 3 daughters in 1923, At that time the family was living in Omaha Nebraska. My mother is the 11 year o;d on the right.
a bit blurred but this is a photo of my grandfather in 1912 when he was in his mid-30’s.
Sir Henry Norris (google image)
Ormskirk Church
photo of my maternal grandmother and 2 of her daughters (in Minneapolis 1912)
Spreadsheet pages – My approx 300 Immigrant Ancestors
Selfie as I neared the end of the exercise of sellotaping and collating the pages of the printout of the spreadsheet.
Page 1
So hot that the only thing to do was to read my book about the life of a Finnish-Swedish immigrant to the Northwest in the late 1890’s and early 1900’s. The Legacy of Ida Lillbroanda. Wonderful book!