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Here are photos which I took with my own camera many years ago, of three portraits, in the flat of their then owner Miss Joan Barnes-Gorell,...

The Woozle effect, or an example of it, is when an idea becomes accepted as a result of repetition of something that was always wrong (or no...

The conventional thing in the past has been to identify the origin of the name Beaumont (applying to people from the Cotentin) with Beaumont...

Yesterday I visited the ruined church at Colwick, by the river Trent, just outside Nottingham. This was where, on 5 November 1728, Hannah Be...

I often wondered why both George and Frances Beaumont at Darton died in 1735 and early 1736 when he was under 40, and she only 31 or 32, and...

Please read this as a follow-up in particular to what I wrote on 10 March 2021 - https://beaumontarchives.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-twelfth-c...

One of the very few dated early references we have is the information of 23 May 1205, which I will come to at the end, relating to William, ...