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What information can we find for one family from one page of a Census ?

What information can we find for one family from one page of a Census ?

Well how about 3 marriages, 2 agricultural labourers, a widow, a Coal merchant, a cordwainer, 4 siblings living apart, a widower, a nephew, a father in law, a mother in law, cousins, and several scholars ! Not to mention the uninhabited buildings.

A brief family study in a part of…

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Added by Dan Billington, Ancestry Central on June 1, 2011 at 11:08am — No Comments

The Hanging of the third John Billington!

You may remember my blog post; ‘the The Hangmen and the Hanged man – what’s in a name’ . Well, this week , quite by chance, at a visit to the Goole Family History Society open day this week, I heard of John Billington, the actor , who had hailed from this tiny East Yorkshire City. Of course, this type of knowledge is always intriguing to me, with my 3rd Great Grandfather, of the… Continue

Added by Dan Billington, Ancestry Central on May 26, 2011 at 4:21am — No Comments

All in a week’s work

Last week was another hectic one in the life of Ancestry Central with some time spent in London at the LMA researching British Citizens born abroad between 1836-1907 which will form part of my article for Family Tree Magazine’s November issue.


Aside from that I have been photographing more cemeteries, with the addition now of Monumental Stones  from St…
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Added by Dan Billington, Ancestry Central on May 24, 2011 at 4:23am — 1 Comment

A little bit of Lincolnshire

Heckington, Great Hale, Horbling, Billingborough & Burton Pedwardine,Lincolnshire, England.

Heading south from Sleaford in the direction of Bourne are the historic Lincolnshire places of Heckington, Great Hale, Horbling, Billingborough & Burton Pedwardine. The Total distance from start to finish of the journey is 2.5 miles but what the journey lacks… Continue

Added by Dan Billington, Ancestry Central on May 13, 2011 at 6:55am — No Comments

More Free Headstone Images

I have started to place just a few of the several hundred images of Heads stones I have online at Flckr. You can use these images for FREE providing they are for personal use and not commercial.

I am about to lose space, so if you think one of the people might be yours – get there quick:…

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Added by Dan Billington, Ancestry Central on May 11, 2011 at 9:42am — No Comments

Blitz Com by dot Com a Blast !

Saturday 7th May 2011 saw the start of a two day exhibition organised by the East Yorkshire Family History Society to commemorate Kingston Upon Hull's worst night of the 1941 blitz. The exhibition was held at Carnegie Heritage Centre and with the help of volunteer groups such as the Heroes of Hull Web Site. The exhibition itself was an overwhelming success with the…

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Added by Dan Billington, Ancestry Central on May 7, 2011 at 10:45am — No Comments

Headstones from Manchester and Sheffield.

Just a few images of the images I have taken of the General Cemetery in Sheffield, Yorkshire and also the church yard at All Saints in Newton Heath,Manchester, Lancashire.

With about 700 images, and  over 1000 names still to upload, I am now looking at an alternative location as my Flckr account is about to reach its full extent. Ii is my hope that a new web page will…

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Added by Dan Billington, Ancestry Central on May 6, 2011 at 7:32am — No Comments

11 New Headstones : 23 new names from 4 Counties

In my quest to upload as many images of headstones as I can shake a stick at uploaded are another 11 headstones featuring 23 names from 4 counties.

Featuring the names Huyton, Dawson, Brown, Archer, Almond, Pickworth, Swift, Baily, Bailey, Garbutt, Knowlson and Thompson. From Ampleforth, Chorley and Kingston Upon Hull, featuring three counties; East Yorkshire, North…

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Added by Dan Billington, Ancestry Central on May 3, 2011 at 9:30am — No Comments

Headstone Hunters

Having travelled  to quite  a few cemeteries  in search of headstone images and monumental inscriptions, I now realise that I have a massive amount of images – some good, some not so good.
Searching cemeteries, I normally take other images of headstones randomly. It might be the images I have taken have a similar name to those that I am…
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Added by Dan Billington, Ancestry Central on May 2, 2011 at 7:51am — No Comments

The Ancestral Homes of Kingston Upon Hull

These recent images capture the essence of a thriving City centre in Victorian Britain. Each one represents the life and livelihood of our past ancestors and the City’s history from William Gill the shoe maker who operated at 34 Bishop Lane to the now infamous Brown family of High Street. Slave abolitionist William Wilberforce walked these cobbled streets to and from…

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Added by Dan Billington, Ancestry Central on April 28, 2011 at 9:00am — No Comments

Unidentified Images of People and Places

Do you recognise any of the people , places or things highlighted in this series of images ?
If so please contact us and share what you know ?
Hull , about 1930.


Walter and…
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Added by Dan Billington, Ancestry Central on April 26, 2011 at 6:30am — No Comments

US Airbase RAF Goxhill, Lincolnshire 1942-1945 ( USAAF Station 345)

Or Goat-Hill as the American Airmen unofficially named it.
Captain Cable in…
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Added by Dan Billington, Ancestry Central on April 25, 2011 at 5:14am — No Comments

The Railway Children of Goole

The Caukill and Taylor family that grew up in Parliament Street and Fourth Avenue, Goole, East Yorkshire were as close as any family living in the terraced streets of a northern town in Victorian Britain but more than that, both had been driven to the town by the decline in the farming industry in the late 19th century. Their life’s had changed…
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Added by Dan Billington, Ancestry Central on April 19, 2011 at 8:06am — No Comments

Sun Stroke at Boot Hill !

The Toll of Time….and Council’s

Still on the theme of local cemeteries. Following a visit to Eastern Cemetery in Kingston, I was astonished to witness in such a well kept cemetery that an eagerness to protect the visitors, the stones themselves were being damaged.

It looks to me as though the sinking of some older graves, very likely due to some flooding and…

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Added by Dan Billington, Ancestry Central on April 18, 2011 at 5:47am — No Comments

Bringing the past to life.

In life we associate cemeteries with our own losses and they are often regarded as gloomy and miserable places to be. Yet in my capacity as a Family History Researcher, I see these places in an entirely different light, not just associated to death.  In fact they help bring the past to life and my experience combined with good information on a headstone, can open the doors…
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Added by Dan Billington, Ancestry Central on April 18, 2011 at 5:40am — No Comments

The Cemeteries of Hull

A selection of my photographs from a recent exploration of cemeteries in Hull. Dating back to the early 1800’s, there is certainly much evidence of death, decay and disease. Many of the surviving stones had in fact been relocated from previous locations as the City expanded.

One of the most interesting finds was evidence of the 1849 Cholera epidemic in the City and the…

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Added by Dan Billington, Ancestry Central on April 13, 2011 at 12:36pm — No Comments

The Hangmen and the Hanged man – what’s in a name?

Being of the surname Billington, my family, though in Yorkshire for over 100 years, is often asked about its Lancashire origins and in particular I am often asked by historians if I have any connections to the Hangmen of Bolton. In the south of England the question is quite different and I am asked of my connections to John Billington who travelled with the Pilgrim father’s…

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Added by Dan Billington, Ancestry Central on April 12, 2011 at 5:08am — No Comments

Sam Cooke’s Wonderful World





When Sam Cooke wrote the lyrics to the award winning hit ‘What a Wonderful World’ in 1959, he was telling us that he ‘did not know much about Genealogy’. You might now be humming the tune to yourself , frantically searching for the word ‘genealogy’ and you would be correct in confirming, it is not there. None the less, the references to history and geography are and my… Continue

Added by Dan Billington, Ancestry Central on April 12, 2011 at 3:43am — 2 Comments

From Death is Life

This week, I will be spending some time researching the Cemeteries of Kingston upon Hull, in East Yorkshire. Between 1880 and 1910, the Cemeteries grew at a rate only equalled by the continued growth of the City. From a tiny medieval town surrounded by green fields, Henry VIII’s favourite stop over expanded to more than 10 times its original size.

Recent records exist of…

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Added by Dan Billington, Ancestry Central on April 11, 2011 at 3:00am — No Comments

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