Category: Family Histories
Category: Family Histories

My Grandmother’s Daughter
Till I was sent to a College Hostel in Darjeeling, I had never been away from the family. We lived ...

The Guhas of Brooking Street
My great grandfather, Jatindramohan Guha was the first in his village Qutubpur in the district of Faridpur in East Bengal ...

From Jersey, Channel Islands, to the African Continent
My father Richard Durell married Edmée Gruchy in Jersey on 21 December in 1934. After marriage, Richard accepted ...

The Macready Mystery
Throughout my mother’s life, she believed implicitly that she was a descendant of William Charles Macready (1793-1873), the great Shakespearian ...

Life with my Grandparents
I was very lucky to be loved and cared for by my grandparents for a very long span of my ...

To be a butterfly
It is a sunny October afternoon in Cambourne and I am looking through the window at my garden where a ...