Nicholas Kingsley
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Nicholas Kingsley
@NicholasKingsle
Historian of country houses & landed families; FSA; Trustee of #VCH Trust and Chair of Glos County History Trust. Retired archivist @UKNationalArchives.
Clevedon, England Sumali Temmuz 2011
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@bbclaurak I see you’re taking flak from all sides again. Laura. So you are obviously getting the famous BBC balanced reporting just right!
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The latest post on my blog concerns a Yorkshire family which has held the same estate since the early 17th century... and are still there, although the great house is now a wedding venue in separate ownership. landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/06/604-be…




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The latest post on my blog concerns a family of Kentish brewers with a clutch of seats around Maidstone: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/04/600-be…




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What phrase have we underlined in this weeks #whatisthatword puzzle? Today's is from a letter from Ada Richards to a member of the Davy family in the mid-19th century
Reference: D16001/1/8

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The latest post on my blog concerns a family which made its money from a C19 brewery in Sheffield and still own a 1600 acre Yorkshire estate with a comfortable Georgian house and a fine folly belvedere tower: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/01/596-be…



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The latest piece on my blog concerns a Scottish family with a legal tradition and a seat on the river Tay: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2025/01/595-be…

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@AncestryUK My log in is not working this morning and no doubt many others have the same problem!
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The latest post on my blog tells the rather remarkable story of Richard McCarthy alias Berridge (1812-87), who made a fortune as a London brewer, became the largest landowner in Ireland, and was a serial philanderer: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2024/12/593-be…


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@xmuse_ Light, drains, rubbish. But I was there during a refuse collectors strike in 1981!
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Merry Christmas everyone! Here is another #whatisthatword challenge, this time a Christmas poem from the Hale family of Alderley in the 1660s. Can you tell us what the two words underlined in blue are?
Reference: D1086/F72

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@johnevigar Thank you. What a shame about the monument!
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The latest post on my blog concerns the junior branch of a Norfolk family and the many houses they have owned since 1628: landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2024/12/592-be…




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