The is the second part of the story about Joan’s travel to Lyon
After two or three days of complete peace, we felt we should venture further afield, so off we went to Lyon, to hire a car. We had
Stories by Joan Duncan
Joan was the inspiration behind this site and the first author to post a story.
C’est La Vie! (This is Life)
The idea of the Blog developed while talking to Joan Duncan and reading her detailed account of living in London during the war years. The first story of the Blog called When the War Began, was by her. Joan was
The Maharaja’s English Connection
My husband Neil C. Duncan’s maternal grandfather was Arthur Ramdin. Neil put together a brief biography of Arthur who clearly had non- English antecedent. The account goes as follows:
The Descendants of Arthur Marius Ramdin (1857-1925) and Rebecca Maria Brown
The Journey
The beginning was difficult-I was in a traffic jam going to the airport! Would I get to the check-in in time? I began to get agitated and restless, and the clouds which had been threatening all the way, began to
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 actor I was brought up in a house full of memorabilia, including copies of the Macready Diaries.
After my mother’s
When The War Began
I find it hard to believe that I was born only six years after the end of World War I; it was as remote to me as a child as it is now. My father used to take me and