Family Trees & Victorian Culture

Some of the Interesting Writings, Links and Stories found on this site

• A Victorian’s Religious Beliefs (Transcripts from the writings of George Burgess 1829-1905)

• Thomas Arthur VC (1835-1902) Crimean War (1853–1856)

• Extraordinary Suicide – March 1856

• The Middleton Family from America - Richard Middleton Captain in Union Army during the American Civil War (1861-1865)

• Antics of Grand Pratt (Gertrude Rosa Burgess 1874-1958)

• Letters of accusation of poisoning of Grand Pratt (Gertrude Rosa Burgess 1874-1958) by her daughter-in-law

• Paul Denton, a Methodist preacher in Texas and the Famous Barbeque - A fictionalized account published in newspapers at the time, based on the life of John B Denton, a pioneer preacher who went to Texas in 1837

• Grace…. gone with the wind - An entry from the diary of Grace Russ, where she caused real chaos at work for not owning up to having wind!