Charles Courtneidge was a coachman from Leatherhead, Surrey. He fell from the box of his fly and died on the…
Sarah Watson was born on 1 Aug 1818 in the parish of St. Luke, Chelsea, then in the county of…
Thomas James Ward was born on 9 Jan 1843 at Strand-on-the-Green in Chiswick. His father Thomas was an agricultural labourer…
George Ward was the son of James Ward and Maria Willoughby of Aston and Cote in Oxfordshire. George moved to…
The history of the caddies at Walton Heath in these early days includes strikes, riots, murder, illegal gambling and organized…
Two years ago, I made a spectacular find related to my family's history. A simple Google search let me to…
In April of 1923, a "slender Englishman" named Alf Ward walked into the office of Indianapolis mayor Lew Shank. He…
Alfred was the eighth of twelve children born in 1883 to Thomas James Ward, a Battersea distillery worker and builder's…
Tom Hancock was an English golf professional with a long and active career in the United States. Born in Richmond,…
Thomas and Mary's youngest son William Ward remained unmarried and joined the British Army in 1879. He frequently found himself…