Aviation Memorials Orkney & Shetland
The aim of A.R.G.O.S is to document all aspects of aviation history on and around the Orkney and Shetland Isles. These include;
Recording and documenting Aircraft crash sites both on land and underwater.
Documenting sites of airstrips and air bases from both the RAF and FAA.
Research and document Balloon Barrage sites, Anti Aircraft gun sites and search [...]
Cockermouth Cemetery inscriptions.
The project to record headstone inscriptions in Cockermouth Cemetery began in the Autumn of 2004.
Gravestones have been recorded for All Saints Church Rooms and church graveyard and Allerdale Council Cemetery. Records can be searched free of charge online via cemetery or by surname.
All the headstone inscriptions in the old part of the Cemetery have now [...]
Parish records go online
Over 5 Million Parish Records are now available online. Search nearly 500 years of Baptisms, Marriages, Burials between 1538-1900.
Familyrelatives.com is pleased to announce the release of 5 million Parish records online. The database is a collection of historical parish and probate registers from many Counties of England and Wales dating from the early 1500s to [...]
Pte. Lewis Leiser
Nineteen year old Private Lewis Leiser of The Royal Pioneer Corps is buried at Arthuret church, Cumbria.
The Royal Pioneer Corps was raised on 17 October 1939 as the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps.
Pioneers were generally recruited from Africa, Mauritius and India but not well known, is that many thousands of Germans and Austrians also joined the [...]
Archie Armstrong Court Jester
Archibald Armstrong “Archie or Archy,” as his name suggests, came from the infamous Border Reiving clan and although originally he would ply his time in the family occupation of sheep-stealing, he later entered the service of James VI/I as a court jester and soon became his favourite.
Members of the court however, were not so taken [...]
Scottish Borders Gravestones
The Borders Family History Society aim to help people with their family history primarily in the Border counties (Berwickshire, Peeblesshire, Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire) of Scotland, as well as in adjacent counties of England and Scotland.
Monumental Inscriptions
Shows all Monumental Inscriptions volumes currently for sale.
Society members get a discount per volume.
Search the Gravestones Index
All published volumes can [...]
Northern Ireland Headstones
A great website resource called History from Headstones allows you to search the largest collection of online gravestone inscriptions in Northern Ireland.
The History From headstones database contains over 50,000 inscriptions from over 800 graveyards in counties Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry and Tyrone.
Graveyards are outdoor museums and the most accessible source for studying the local [...]
Shap Air Crash Anniversary
On the 22nd October 2009, an RAF Hawk jet crashed in the small village of Shap in Cumbria. Nearby houses were damaged and the two crewmen lost their lives.
Squadron Leader Mike Andrews, 38, of Hampshire, and Flight Lieutenant Steve Todd, 28, of Grantham, Lincolnshire, had been on a training mission from RAF Leeming in North [...]
Rail Worker’s Monument, Shap
A monument commemorating the deaths of rail workers during the construction of the Shap section of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railways in the 1840’s, is to be found in the church yard to the North of the building near the main gate.
Completed in 1846, the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway over Shap stands as perhaps the [...]
Maj.-Gen. Sir George Frederick Johnson
Maj.-Gen. Sir George Frederick Johnson is buried in his local graveyard of St Mary’s church, Walton, Brampton, Cumbria.
Decorated with the award of Companion, Distinguished Service Order (D.S.O.), He gained the rank of Major-General in the service of the Scots Guards.
He was invested as a Commander, Order of the British Empire (C.B.E.), Knight Commander, Royal Victorian [...]
