North Yorkshire History

I wrote this version of the old story a long while ago for schoolchildren and had quite forgotten it until I came upon it recently. I hav...

I've just made some corrections to the Family of the Revd Thomas Todd  and to  The Ords of Guisborough .

Just to say that if you've tried to email me through the blog and found your email has pinged back - do try again!  I know at least one ...

I often wondered what happened to the Brigham family of Rudby .  Now, thanks to an email from their descendant Jonathan Taylor at last I kno...

Amongst the photographs I have received from Australia was this one: It shows notes and cuttings about the parish and rectors of Kildal...

Far off in Sydney, Australia, Richard Ord Todd and his aunt Isabella had photographs of her nephew William King Weatherill of Guisborough a...

Richard Ord Todd was born in Guisborough.  His mother was Elizabeth Mary Poynter, the daughter of John Poynter and Ann Ord.  Here she is, wi...