"Mother died ..." - about this blog

Among the detritus of a house-clearance – both my parents-in-law died within 6 months of each other – was a folded piece of lined blue paper. On the paper: handwritten notes, mostly but not exclusively in the same hand, began "Mother died Aug 31st 1926."

But whose mother?

This blog is about family history, but leaning towards the written notes of some of my and my wife’s ancestors as much as official records. It begins with Edith May Morgan, principal author of that little blue note, but may range far and wide before we're ended. My aim is that through the collected, so nearly discarded, detritus of a house crammed with many lives, my wife and her sisters may learn more about their family, and perhaps I about mine.