In the wills and testaments of our early Emptage ancestors and in the occupations given in the early parish registers, there are several references to a person being a yeoman. What was a yeoman?
Family History Detective Kit
As family historians, we are detectives and all detectives have a kit to take along on the trail as they search.
Patron Saint of Family Historians
Patron saints are heavenly advocates for nations or places, occupations and professions or people. Perhaps the most well known is St Christopher, the patron saint of travellers.
I think that it is time for family historians to have a patron saint who they can call upon in times of stress and bewilderment. But who should it be? Who would favour our particular interest?
The Truth Is Out There!
Regular readers of this website will be aware of the incredible effort we put in to researching the facts concerning our ancestors. Of course, the further back we go, the more difficult it becomes.
Sometimes we draw reasoned conclusions and other times we may advance an hypothesis based on the somewhat limited evidence we have gathered as we’ve travelled through time.
Roger Emptage has gathered together a number of Emptage strands and presents his hypothesis here. Enjoy!
Practising Safe Genealogy
If it is to be done properly, researching family history takes time and effort. What is the point of compromising the results by taking short cuts and replicating errors which are found on other people’s trees?
With Courage, Nothing is Impossible
Those words are inscribed on the RNLI memorial in Poole Dorset.
The memorial contains a list of over 800 lifeboat crew and others who have lost their lives whilst endeavouring to save others at sea, together with the places and dates. The names include two members of the Emptage family.