I found Ancestry.com useful in some ways - I found long lost family but also contacted three people to correct their family tree details with what I discovered.
My father's mother was a Wilson, from a family of engineers.
Her father, though, was a farmer who married a farmer's daughter. They farmed near Barnsley in South Yorkshire, using steam power and traction engines, but the origins were Scottish. I have not had time to follow that line back out of Yorkshire, but will probably do that one of these years.
Anne the Pleater :ootd:
I presume to dictate to no man what he shall eat or drink or wherewithal he shall be clothed."
-- The Hon. Stuart Ruaidri Erskine, The Kilt & How to Wear It, 1901.
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