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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Derek Almey Ratcliffe Memorial
Situated on the edge of Finglandrigg Wood, near the Solway Coast, is a wonderful carved seat featuring the Peregrine Falcon. This seat is a memorial dedicated to Dr. Derek Almey Ratcliffe.
Derek Ratcliffe was an outstanding ecologist and nature conservationist who had an international reputation in ornithology and botany. One of his favourite places [...]
Orkney Graveyards
The Okney Family History Society have ongoing projects to catalogue all of the graveyards of mainland Orkney and the surrounding islands.
Some of these sites have been completed and are now available in booklet form or members can view the details on the website.
Carlisle Cemetery Catalogued
The owner of the Carlislehistory.co.uk website has now completed recording the names on the gravestones in Carlisle’s Richardson Street cemetery, the city’s main burial place since 1855.
A surname index has been produced to the 24,000 names recorded.
Very useful for those tracing relatives or carrying out family history research.
The site operates a very basic A [...]
