June 2012 - Friends of Lydiard Park

Published on: 27th June 2012

When Sarah Whiting married Samuel Sparhawk on December 2, 1696 in Cambridge, Massachusetts the town was still a small...

Published on: 18th June 2012

Today's GG post takes a look at a less aristocratic but none the less interesting family and two women who lived an...

Published on: 15th June 2012

The St John family has several close connections with Royalty. Barbara, Countess of Castlemaine had a whole nursery full...

Published on: 13th June 2012

In her book Cavalier - The Story of a 17th century Playboy - Dr Lucy Worsley describes the three Cavendish sisters as...

Published on: 9th June 2012

Most of what we know about Elizabeth Cromwell is based on propaganda written either by disaffected Parliamentarians or...

Published on: 6th June 2012

Sometimes it is only in death that we learn a little of the life of a Good Gentlewoman. Judith St John was born in c 1545...

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