East Yorkshire local and family history

I have been looking this week at Quaker history and specifically at some of our local families who emigrated in the late seventeenth centu...

I have been looking this week at various aspects of the history of Howden church and in particular some of the interesting people associated...

I often write about the history of Goole or Howden but I was brought up in Eastrington where my mother's family (the Nurses) have lived ...

This week I had a visit from John and Sue from the US who were staying in Saltmarshe whilst tracing their family history. Sue's great ...

One of my particular interests is in families from this area of Yorkshire who emigrated to US and Canada in the nineteenth century. Now than...