Category: Family Histories
Category: Family Histories
My Jewish Legacy
I had always been struck by the large portrait of a man, that hung over my grandmother’s sitting room. I ...
‘Warm as the wind, soft as the kiss of snow’: Life with family and friends
In a two part story, Irina recounts her growing up in Moscow and travels to India I was born to ...
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 ...
A Granddaughter’s tribute to the Artist, Sarada Ukil
Sarada Charan Ukil, popularly known as Sarada Ukil, my maternal grandfather is something of a mythical figure to me. What ...
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 a ...
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 ...