Category Archives: Family and Friends

Happy birthday to Marci

Posted on May 23, 2012 by
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My #1 job for today…

Posted on May 22, 2012 by

…is learning how to make mint juleps for Marci’s birthday party tomorrow. Don’t ask – it’s a long story!

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In which I pay tribute to my maternal great-grandmothers

Posted on May 13, 2012 by

Lilian Cave was born on 29th December 1890 in the St. Margaret’s area of Leicester; she was the daughter of Joseph William Wood Cave, a warehouseman, and his wife Emily née Watts. Before Lilian was two years old her father … Continue reading →

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Remembering my sabbatical leave

Posted on April 14, 2012 by

It’s hard to believe that on Monday it will be five years since I got on a plane here in Edmonton and flew over to England for a three month sabbatical leave. I have been in full time ministry for … Continue reading →

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I’m ‘in a relationship’ with my Mum

Posted on April 10, 2012 by

Warning: this post is a rant – a rant, to be specific, about that heavily overused word ‘relationship’. Of course, I’m well aware that ‘being in a relationship’ is just the latest euphemism for being – how shall I say … Continue reading →

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A minor genealogical triumph

Posted on January 2, 2012 by

I know, we amateur genealogists are a weird bunch and our obsession can seem more than a little odd to people not so afflicted. But I have to share that over the past few days I had a minor genealogical triumph. … Continue reading →

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Family History in Photos and Clippings

Posted on December 13, 2011 by

This is my grandfather, George Edgar Chesterton, who was born in 1895 and died in 1963. Grandpa enlisted in the army in 1914 and served throughout the First World War in the front line trenches as an infantryman. He managed … Continue reading →

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A walk down memory lane in Leicester

Posted on December 8, 2011 by

I was born on a street exactly like Coronation Street: Woodland Road in east central Leicester, a street of industrial revolution row-housing built in the late 1890s. It was a working class neighbourhood and when I was a boy it … Continue reading →

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Bob Chesterton turns eighty tomorrow

Posted on December 4, 2011 by

My Dad was born in Leicester on December 5th 1931; he is the third of five children of George and Dorothy Chesterton, and all five are still alive today. My grandpa was a World War 1 veteran who went on … Continue reading →

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Holiday update

Posted on December 1, 2011 by

We’re having a grand time at Oakham with Dad and Mum. The weather has been ridiculously mild by Canadian standards; only once have we had a frost, and we haven’t even had a great deal of rain either. I’ve been … Continue reading →

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