<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Geordie Genes Family History]]></title><description><![CDATA[A personal blog where I record my family history research. As I trace my family tree, I share what I uncover along the way - old records, photographs,]]></description><link>https://www.geordiegenes.com/family-history</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 02:19:36 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.geordiegenes.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Where the Angel Stands: The Richardsons of Team Colliery]]></title><description><![CDATA[The story of a coal hewer, his wife, and a life lived by the pit, 1890–1965 In the churchyard at St Andrews in Lamesley, on the southern fringe of Gateshead, one word brings my great-grandparents' story to its close: Reunited. The stone carries two names. Margaret Richardson who died on 25th October 1943, aged 51. William Richardson who outlived her by more than twenty years, dying on 14 February 1965 at the age of 75. The full transcription from the Parish Burial records reads:  In loving...]]></description><link>https://www.geordiegenes.com/post/where-the-angel-stands-the-richardsons-of-team-colliery</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a285f37579005354a9f2e3b</guid><category><![CDATA[Richardson Branch]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:12:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/591f8f_f9b597e02588432b818b4069ec16b03b~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_758,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rachael Lindsay</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alexander Robinson: A Scotsman on Gateshead Fell]]></title><description><![CDATA[Of all the people I've turned up in this branch of the family, my second great-grandfather Alexander Robinson is the one who keeps me guessing. For most of my life I'd never really been sure there was any Scottish blood in us at all — and it was only when I began this research that he stepped out of the records, and Scotland came with him. He is the nearest Scottish relative I have. As it turns out, he isn't the only one — there are other Scottish connections further back, on both my Mam's...]]></description><link>https://www.geordiegenes.com/post/alexander-robinson-a-scotsman-on-gateshead-fell</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a272595bcf454bfefdbfebf</guid><category><![CDATA[Robinson Branch]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:31:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/591f8f_9c9e29f5b0e04d90a4d2139e15b82795~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_500,h_349,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rachael Lindsay</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rose Edith Ferry: A Newcastle Life]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every family tree has names that are little more than dates, and others that slowly gather into a person. My great-great-grandmother Rose Edith Ferry is one of the ones who has come into focus — a Tyneside woman whose whole life, as far as the records show, was lived within a few square miles of Newcastle upon Tyne. Source: Tyne &#38; Wear Building Preservation Trust A daughter of the East End Rose was born in 1883 in Newcastle upon Tyne, one of the daughters of Zephaniah and Margaret Ferry. By...]]></description><link>https://www.geordiegenes.com/post/rose-edith-ferry-a-newcastle-life</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a25ef1a7af0f73356967985</guid><category><![CDATA[Rudd Branch]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:38:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/591f8f_78b84ff1391f49c28cff5455be310d97~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_960,h_640,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rachael Lindsay</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wreford Family of Devonshire]]></title><description><![CDATA[I've turned my attention lately to my dad's paternal line, and it has led me somewhere I didn't expect — into the pages of a book that was written for us, more than a century ago. Source: Devon Family History Society The discovery My great-grandmother (my dad's grandmother), born around 1882, was the daughter of Frances Wreford (1855–1910) — known in the family as Fanny, wife of William Longstaff (born around 1860). Fanny, in turn, was the daughter of George Giles Wreford, who, my research (&#38;...]]></description><link>https://www.geordiegenes.com/post/the-wreford-family-of-devonshire</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a25abc67af0f7335695f5bf</guid><category><![CDATA[Robinson Branch]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:35:14 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/591f8f_890ee172465c48268845fd887776b0c6~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_775,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rachael Lindsay</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Berrys of Westminster — and the Northern Family They Joined]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most of the family history I write about belongs to the North East, but one strand of my tree begins somewhere quite different: in the schoolrooms of Westminster. These are the Berrys, my London family, and their story makes a fascinating counterpoint to the Ferrys up north over the very same decades. The two were tied together by a single marriage — and by a name that travelled the length of England. A schoolmaster and his wife At the head of the London line stand Augustine Berry and his...]]></description><link>https://www.geordiegenes.com/post/the-berrys-of-westminster-and-the-northern-family-they-joined</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a257273750b8b39abbb0ca1</guid><category><![CDATA[Rudd Branch]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:10:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/591f8f_846f7769c0914378a65562a17f29796f~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_615,h_513,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rachael Lindsay</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sixty-Six Years a Gardener: Robert Ferry of Ravensworth (c.1779–1863)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every so often in family history you find an ancestor whose whole life seems to belong to a single place. My fifth great-grandfather, Robert Ferry, is one of those. When he died in November 1863, the Newcastle Guardian marked his passing with a few lines that say more than most gravestones: At Low Hall, Farnacres, on the 8th inst., aged 84, Mr Robt. Ferry, much respected. The deceased, for the long period of 66 years, was gardener to the family of the Right Hon. Lord Ravensworth. Source: The...]]></description><link>https://www.geordiegenes.com/post/sixty-six-years-a-gardener-robert-ferry-of-ravensworth-c-1779-1863</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a2563da7af0f733569566d0</guid><category><![CDATA[Rudd Branch]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:47:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/591f8f_2289a7d0d4a7452d989b884b9efc510c~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_550,h_340,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rachael Lindsay</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Londoner, a Boat to Australia, and the Ferry Brothers' Pottery]]></title><description><![CDATA[The story of my 4th great-grandmother Esther Pilgrim Ferry (née Berry), her potter sons, and the brother who stayed behind. When I first started pulling on this thread, one detail really caught my attention. My 4th great-grandmother, Esther Pilgrim Ferry, died in 1909 not in the north of England where she'd raised her family, but in Brunswick, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. She was 87. So I kept asking myself the obvious question: what took a woman in her later years halfway around the...]]></description><link>https://www.geordiegenes.com/post/a-londoner-a-boat-to-australia-and-the-ferry-brothers-pottery</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a247ad9195405000210e9ce</guid><category><![CDATA[Rudd Branch]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:56:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/591f8f_b0367dc5d26a4e7e99585d844ede6832~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_338,h_585,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Rachael Lindsay</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>