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Do you recognise that feeling when you just have to know all there is to know about somebody on your family tree? The person is my Great Grandfather Dicken Hinton. He was born in the village of Ightfield in Shropshire, United Kingdom, in 1842 to John and Martha (nee Darlington). He was baptised in St […]

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St Mary’s Church Edstaston, St Michael and All Angels Church Loppington, and lunch at the Dickin Arms

Discovering Moretons and Walmsleys led us to two charming Shropshire churches—and a delicious lunch at a family-named pub. Even snow couldn’t stop us.

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Welcome to Eye on the Past: How It All Began

It all started with a giant family tree and a curious note about an ancestor who fled to Bolivia. We didn’t know it then—but we were hooked for life.

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