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Tall Tales from the Trees: July 2015
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Tall Tales from the Trees. Ancestors and episodes from my family archives. All writing © 2009-2015 by Colin Salter. More information at www.colinsalter.co.uk. Saturday, 25 July 2015. ELEANOR MAY CASTLE (1880-1950) AND THE RULE OF HOLY LIVING. My grandmother May Salter née Castle died before I was born, and yet it is through her that I have some of my best ancestral material. She was close to her widowed aunt Ada, and often visited her at Frome Lodge in Bristol. And contemporary verse such as the emerging...
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Tall Tales from the Trees: October 2014
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Tall Tales from the Trees. Ancestors and episodes from my family archives. All writing © 2009-2015 by Colin Salter. More information at www.colinsalter.co.uk. Saturday, 18 October 2014. JOSEPH GURNEY (1744-1815) AND THE GORDON RIOTS. One of the scandalous hearings on which Gurney shorthand made its name concerned the Gordon Riots of 1780. It was a case of particular personal interest to the Gurney family and others of their nonconformist persuasion. If you were not Church of England, your freedom...Catho...
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Tall Tales from the Trees: June 2015
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Tall Tales from the Trees. Ancestors and episodes from my family archives. All writing © 2009-2015 by Colin Salter. More information at www.colinsalter.co.uk. Saturday, 27 June 2015. GEORGE FIFE ANGAS (1789-1879) AND THE BELIZE COFFEE-HOUSE AND HOTEL. Belize, with which my distant cousin George Fife Angas. Their main trade was the felling of the bloodwoodtree (such a piratical name for a tree! George Fife Angas (1789-1879). But there is honour among thieves and a code of rough justice even among pirates&...
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Tall Tales from the Trees: CHARLES HENRY SALTER (1918-2008) AND THE LETTERS FROM FRANCE (Part 2)
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Tall Tales from the Trees. Ancestors and episodes from my family archives. All writing © 2009-2015 by Colin Salter. More information at www.colinsalter.co.uk. Saturday, 16 May 2015. CHARLES HENRY SALTER (1918-2008) AND THE LETTERS FROM FRANCE (Part 2). Read Part 1 here! My dear friend Charles,. I was very touched by your lovely letter – and so happy to know that even in such bad times [with war imminent]. French style of light, conversational, romantic story-telling]. My dear Charles, -. Heart of the wood.
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Writer Beware®: The Blog: Guest Blog Post: The Scam of Private Label Rights Articles
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Shining a bright light into the dark corners of the shadow-world of literary scams, schemes, and pitfalls. Also providing advice for writers and industry news and commentary. Writer Beware is sponsored by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. March 5, 2010. Guest Blog Post: The Scam of Private Label Rights Articles. Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware. If you're too lazy or too clueless to write a real book, now you slap your name on another person's work and get rich in the p...
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Tall Tales from the Trees: January 2014
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Tall Tales from the Trees. Ancestors and episodes from my family archives. All writing © 2009-2015 by Colin Salter. More information at www.colinsalter.co.uk. Saturday, 25 January 2014. ALICE ANGUS (active 1605) AND HER PUB WITH ROOMS. My 3x great uncle Joseph Angus. Came from a noble line, the Earls of Angus who lived in Tantallon Castle near Edinburgh. One ancestor, a contemporary of his 7x great grandfather, was Archibald Doulgas, the 8. Tantallon Castle, East Lothian, built c1350 by William Douglas, 1.
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Tall Tales from the Trees: March 2014
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Tall Tales from the Trees. Ancestors and episodes from my family archives. All writing © 2009-2015 by Colin Salter. More information at www.colinsalter.co.uk. Saturday, 29 March 2014. ALEXANDER TOUGH (b. 1770) AND THE CLYDE ROPEWORKS. I am part of the diaspora of the Tough family. In various spellings and pronunciations, the name comes reputedly from Norman knights called De Touche. Kirkton of Tough, near Alford, Aberdeenshire. First they became tenant farmers in the fertile plains of Stirlingshire. ...
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Tall Tales from the Trees: May 2014
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Tall Tales from the Trees. Ancestors and episodes from my family archives. All writing © 2009-2015 by Colin Salter. More information at www.colinsalter.co.uk. Saturday, 31 May 2014. SIR THOMAS MUDIE (d. 1660) AND THE SIEGE OF DUNDEE. I’m descended in one branch of my family from the Mudies of Dundee. Their most prominent ancestor is Sir Thomas Mudie, who was Provost of the city from 1648 to 1653 (some sources say 1650-1658). James VI/I was succeeded by his son Charles I; and when the English parliamentar...
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Tall Tales from the Trees: AUSTIN CLARE COOPER (1890-1964) AND THE KINGS AND QUEENS
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Tall Tales from the Trees. Ancestors and episodes from my family archives. All writing © 2009-2015 by Colin Salter. More information at www.colinsalter.co.uk. Saturday, 1 August 2015. AUSTIN CLARE COOPER (1890-1964) AND THE KINGS AND QUEENS. I’m a proud fan of the transport posters of my cousin Austin Cooper. During the golden age of the railway poster in the 1920s and 1930s he was on the staff of the London and North Eastern Railway Company. And among his many other clients was London Transport. They ar...
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