Richard Edmunds
Sailors, Merchants, Brewers and Witchcraft - The Lowestoft Arnolds
Georgian Lowestoft Perched on the North Sea Coast, the most easterly settlement in the U.K, Lowestoft in Suffolk, which owes its name to...
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Richard Edmunds
Apr 30, 20221 min read
Radio Wales Julia Baird Interview
Pleased to report my book 'Inside the Beatles Family Tree' was featured on the BBC Radio Wales Breakfast Show 23rd April 2022, as the...
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Richard Edmunds
Aug 23, 20218 min read
Graves, Tsars, and Royal Robes - Russia & The Gordons
Genealogists quickly learn a love of graveyards and monuments as a wealth of biographic information, a unique personal link to the past,...
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Richard Edmunds
Aug 15, 202113 min read
Romani Origin & DNA
Several of my published genealogy works centre around the Romani people and their five-hundred-year history in the British Isles. Though...
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Richard Edmunds
Aug 12, 20214 min read
The London Hilliards - Artists, Weavers & Workhouses
My late grandmother Jean Bellenger, shown above in 1945 at the age of eighteen, was a keen painter who sold and exhibited her work at...
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Richard Edmunds
Aug 2, 20213 min read
Bob Marley, Stained Glass, Architects, War Time Code Breakers, Authors, Inventors and Spies.
2021 marked forty years since the death of Jamaican singer, songwriter, and musician Bob Marley. In my 2018 book Paths of Freedom I trace...
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Richard Edmunds
Jun 30, 20215 min read
The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green
One of the earliest records I have of my Huguenot families in France is the marriage entry of my ancestors Isaie Martin and Marie...
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Richard Edmunds
May 21, 20216 min read
157 Brick Lane
Sandwiched between two rival Beigel shops, a legacy of 19th century Jewish settlement in East London, lies the Georgian façade of 157...
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Richard Edmunds
Aug 11, 202044 min read
Bethnal Green Tales
In prior blog entries I have written about my family connection to Spitalfields. Equally important in my own family history is its...
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Richard Edmunds
May 11, 202012 min read
TRIBUTE TO MY GRANDAD
My grandfather sadly passed away on 16th April this year, aged 89, and ahead of his funeral tomorrow I wanted to write some of my own...
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Richard Edmunds
Apr 12, 20191 min read
John Lennon's Royal Roots
What do these two men have in common besides a name? Perhaps the most explosive new discovery of my book INSIDE THE BEATLES FAMILY TREE...
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Richard Edmunds
Apr 3, 20193 min read
John Lennon – a Welsh National Hero?
JOHN Lennon's little-known family connection to Wales is revealed and fully detailed in my newly published book, Inside the Beatles...
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Richard Edmunds
Mar 4, 201912 min read
Jack 'The Hat' McVITIE
A year ago this week saw the publication of the first instalment in my Infamous Eastenders Series, 'Discovering the Kray Family Tree', an...
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Richard Edmunds
Dec 13, 20181 min read
Book Review December 2018
A review of one of my books published in the Winter 2018 Romany Routes Journal today. Thank you to Jeremy Harte at the Romany and...
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Richard Edmunds
Aug 22, 201817 min read
A two-century family odyssey in Spitalfields - part 2 - French Huguenot tales
Seven years after Edward Clarke’s death, yet more of my ancestors are recorded living in Spitalfields, and again at Corbett’s Court....
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Richard Edmunds
Aug 22, 20189 min read
A two-century family odyssey in Spitalfields - Part 1 Jack the Ripper, Poverty, Pie and Mash
This month I published The Early Silk Weavers of London and Spitalfields (1520-1720), an account of the establishment of the silk trade...
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Richard Edmunds
Aug 14, 20186 min read
The Arrival of the Huguenots
I am pleased to announce the first of my updated and revised reprints of my 2013 Huguenot series of books, The Early Silk Weavers of...
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Richard Edmunds
May 25, 20182 min read
PATHS OF FREEDOM- THE BOB MARLEY FAMILY TREE
I am pleased to announce Paths of Freedom - The Bob Marley Family Tree, [ISBN 978-1-9999683-4-2] my latest book, is now In Print and...
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Richard Edmunds
May 21, 20184 min read
DNA - A Window to the Deep Past
Since it's inception, in the year 2000, Commercial DNA testing, for genealogical purposes, has become increasingly common and ever more...
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Richard Edmunds
May 18, 20183 min read
Royal Wedding Genealogy - Indian Roots, Slavery, Saxons and Cousin Marriages
Welcome to the new blog section of my website, where I will post regular news and developments on my upcoming books and projects, and on...
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