{"id":706,"date":"2016-12-04T14:05:13","date_gmt":"2016-12-04T14:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamsfamilytree.uk\/pw\/archives\/706"},"modified":"2016-12-04T14:05:13","modified_gmt":"2016-12-04T14:05:13","slug":"merry-christmas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamsfamilytree.uk\/pw\/merry-christmas-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all.<\/p>\n

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Much has happened since the last post on this blog – including my retirement from work. Yes, my shift is over and I can concentrate more on The Williams Family Tree. Or so I thought! Isn’t retirement fun? You can go anywhere, do anything, at anytime. Loving it!<\/p>\n

We have, however, decided to move house and so a lot of my time has been spent sorting out, throwing out, and getting tired out! Lot and lots of paperwork has been scanned and\/or re-downloaded and entered into the Tree. The poor old shredder has been given a hard time as it has been in almost daily making packing material from hundreds of census returns and other documents that are no longer needed.<\/p>\n

Of course, nothing is ever simple! As I was doing all this I was also updating the records that went with the documents as well as looking at information other people have sent to me. This is one battle that will never be won as more cousins connect and share their research for which I am truly grateful. Please keep it coming.<\/p>\n

On a very sad note, our aunt, Irene aka Rene, passed away in November. She will be sadly missed. Our hearts and thoughts are with the family. Bye Rene, you will never be forgotten.<\/p>\n

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Auntie Rene celebrating her 96th birthday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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My Mom’s sister, Rene, the last of the Ellis girls.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’ always difficult when a loved one passes away, especially one so full of fun as Rene. A sad reminder to us all that we only spend a short time on this planet so make the most of it.<\/p>\n

I have spent a lot of time updating the website lately and hopefully the site will remain after I am gone. I have attempted to ensure that all the photos are correctly displayed and all other images are viewable. Time is again the problem here as new information is constantly coming my way, be it from family, contacts, or new sources on the internet. Trying to keep up with it all is fun but hard work. Below is a list of just some of the surnames that have been added or updated in the last few months. As ever I am always grateful for all the information I have been sent.<\/p>\n

Adams<\/a>, Amatt<\/a>, Anthony<\/a>, Bagg<\/a>, Bedson<\/a>, Blackbourn<\/a>, Boon<\/a>, Borders<\/a>, Boseley<\/a>, Bowler<\/a>, Boxall<\/a>, Brodie<\/a>, Brooks<\/a>, Carter<\/a>, Chalk<\/a>, Clowes<\/a>, Cook<\/a>, Cowley<\/a>, Cowpe<\/a>, Crossley<\/a>, Davies<\/a>, Davis<\/a>, East<\/a>, Edwards<\/a>, Everitt<\/a>, Ferrar<\/a>, Foster<\/a>, Gerrard<\/a>, Gover<\/a>, Grant<\/a>, Guilford<\/a>, Hair<\/a>, Halliday<\/a>, Hammond<\/a>, Hawkswell<\/a>, Hill<\/a>, Hillsley<\/a>, Hodson<\/a>, Holmes<\/a>, Hulse<\/a>, Jacombs<\/a>, Jarvis<\/a>, Jones<\/a>, Jones<\/a>, Kilburn<\/a>, kirk<\/a>, Kybird<\/a>, Lake<\/a>, Lord<\/a>, Lunn<\/a>, Lysons<\/a>, Maides<\/a>, Major<\/a>, Marcus<\/a>, Marshall<\/a>, Matcham<\/a>, Matthews<\/a>, McKillop<\/a>, McQueen<\/a>, Middlewick<\/a>, Milledge<\/a>, Morris<\/a>, Neal<\/a>, Neild<\/a>, Norris<\/a>, Norton<\/a>, Palmer<\/a>, Parsons<\/a>, Payne<\/a>, Phillips<\/a>, Plumhoff<\/a>, Prosser<\/a>, Randall<\/a>, Renshaw<\/a>, Richardson<\/a>, Ricketts<\/a>, Stevens<\/a>, Taylor<\/a>, Thomas<\/a>, Thompson<\/a>, Thorpe<\/a>, Thrum<\/a>, Tolchard<\/a>, Truslove<\/a>, Walker<\/a>, Wallwork<\/a>, Watret<\/a>, Wells<\/a>, Wheatley<\/a>, White<\/a>, Wilkinson<\/a>, Williams<\/a>, Willoughby<\/a>, Wood<\/a>, Wright<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all. Much has happened since the last post on this blog – including my retirement from work. Yes, my shift is over and I can concentrate more on The Williams Family Tree. Or so I thought! Isn’t retirement fun? You can go anywhere, do anything, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-tree","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamsfamilytree.uk\/pw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamsfamilytree.uk\/pw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamsfamilytree.uk\/pw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamsfamilytree.uk\/pw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamsfamilytree.uk\/pw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/williamsfamilytree.uk\/pw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamsfamilytree.uk\/pw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamsfamilytree.uk\/pw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamsfamilytree.uk\/pw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}