Simon Howard has compiled a collection of historical photographs, accompanied by accounts that unfold the stories of the individuals and groups who appear in them.
You can visit it free of charge on www.facebook.com/findmyfamilyKL
By using the search button on the Facebook page, you can home in on all the items that mention surnames and places which are of particular interest to you. For instance, a search for the word ‘Northamptonshire’ leads to over 40 separate items about people whose write-up mentions the county.
This picture dates from 1892 and shows Isaac Wade with his wife Elizabeth Rimes who had been married at Peterborough in 1869. In due course, all of their eleven children married and the children’s own spouses are identified. As a result, this picture alone may be of interest to people with the surnames Bellamy, Brown, Hilliam, Jolley, Pearson, Racher, Robinett, Robinson, Slack and Staples, as well as Wade and Rimes.