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JACKOCATS🐯Linda J Jackson. #Anwick #Billinghay Study🐯HC in #Genealogy #IHGS #FamilyHistory 🐯AssociateMember #AGRA 🐯Committee #CADFHS 🐯Co-author WW1 Soldiers #Barlborough #Derbyshire 🐯 🐯BLOG ⬇️ http://familyhistorystories.blog Contact: [email protected]

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Jacko Cats @jackocats.bsky.social · 4d

New Blog🎡🎡The Billinghay Feast🎡We do hope that you enjoy our experiment with AI. Do let us know what you think🎡 #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #FamilyTraditions #OnePlaceStudy #Billinghay #Lincolnshire @oneplacestudies.bsky.social familyhistorystories.blog/2025/10/10/t...

The Billinghay Feast🎡

What information could AI give us about the Billinghay Feast & also write a short story.

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Jacko Cats @jackocats.bsky.social · Aug 23

My New Blog📮💌I turn now to another vital institution: The Post Office #PostOffice #Billinghay #FamilyHistory #OldPhotos #Genealogy #OneNameStudy #Lincolnshire
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Connecting a Village: The Story of Billinghay’s Post Office📮

I turn now to another vital institution: The Post Office📮

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Jacko Cats @jackocats.bsky.social · Aug 6

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Jacko Cats @jackocats.bsky.social · Jul 25

New Blog🍻The Mill Inn🍺revealed itself to be well known & remembered, with a certain character all its own. Owned by the Soulby, Sons & Winch brewery #TheMillInn #Billinghay #Lincolnshire #OldPubs #FamilyHistory #Genealogy
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🍺The Mill Inn🍻

The Mill Inn revealed itself to be well known and remembered, with a certain character all its own.

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Jacko Cats @jackocats.bsky.social · Jul 21

Taken in 1930 of my Aunt Mary—likely taken in #Billinghay Dales, where she lived. #Lincolnshire
Can anyone help with the make and model—could it be a Morris Oxford or maybe an Austin from the late 1920s? #VintageCar
Does anyone recognise it, any thoughts? 🚗🚙 #FamilyHistory

Jacko Cats @jackocats.bsky.social · Jun 9

🍺My Latest Blog now UPDATED with super family pics!🍻
Butcher's Arms, former public house 1st licensed in 1869, 20 Bridge Street #Billinghay #Lincolnshire #ButchersArms #PubHistory #FamilyHistory #OnePlaceStudy
@OnePlaceStudies
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🍺The Butcher’s Arms🍻

🍺The Butchers Arms holds stories not only of landlords and patrons, but also of the village itself.

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Jacko Cats @jackocats.bsky.social · Jun 3

🍺New Blog about the Butcher's Arms, a former public house first licensed in 1869 at 20 Bridge Street 🍻#Billinghay #Lincolnshire #ButchersArms #PubHistory #FamilyHistory #OnePlaceStudy @oneplacestudies.bsky.social
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🍺The Butcher’s Arms🍻

🍺The Butchers Arms holds stories not only of landlords and patrons, but also of the village itself.

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Jacko Cats @jackocats.bsky.social · May 7

Thank you it’s on 😀

Jacko Cats @jackocats.bsky.social · May 7

New Blog🍺The hostelries of Billinghay, I now turn my attention to the Golden Cross🍻
The Golden Cross was situated at 9 Church Street in
#Billinghay #Lincolnshire #OnePlaceStudy
#FamilyHistory #PubHistory #LocalHistory
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🍺The Golden Cross🍻

The hostelries of Billinghay, I now turn my attention to the Golden Cross.

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Jacko Cats @jackocats.bsky.social · Apr 14

🏍️Thrilled to share a Guest Blog by Igor Romanov, Speedway Historian. He made contact after my Blog back in January about #GrenadierGuards 1st Battalion Speedway Team🏍️ #Military #Speedway #SpeedwayHistory #FamilyHistory #OldPhotos familyhistorystories.blog/2025/04/14/t...

The History of Speedway and the British Army. Guest Blog.

Absolutely thrilled to have a Guest Blog by Igor Romanov, Speedway Historian.

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Jacko Cats @jackocats.bsky.social · Apr 14

🏍️Thrilled to share a Guest Blog by Igor Romanov, Speedway Historian. He made contact after my Blog back in January about #GrenadierGuards 1st Battalion Speedway Team🏍️ #Military #Speedway #SpeedwayHistory #FamilyHistory #OldPhotos familyhistorystories.blog/2025/04/14/t...

The History of Speedway and the British Army. Guest Blog.

Absolutely thrilled to have a Guest Blog by Igor Romanov, Speedway Historian.

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Jacko Cats @jackocats.bsky.social · Mar 31

New Blog🍺The Coach & Horses, Billinghay🍻
The history of the pub & its many Landlords from 1810.
My family connections with the pub #FamilyHistory
#Billinghay #Lincolnshire #CoachandHorsesBillinghay
#PubHistory
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🍺The Coach & Horses, Billinghay🍻

This pub has always held special significance for my family. I recall visiting it with my parents in the late 1970s, forming early memories that stayed with me. Its importance deepened further duri…

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Jacko Cats @jackocats.bsky.social · Mar 23

🍺New Blog🍺
🗝️Once a staple of Billinghay's life, the Cross Keys Pub stood proudly at 8 Victoria Street🗝️
Delving deeper I came across a family connection & much more! #FamilyHistory #Genealogy
#PubHistory #Billinghay #Lincolnshire
#CoachAndHorses #TheShipInn
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🍺The Cross Keys🍻

🗝️Once a staple of Billinghay’s life, The Cross Keys Pub stood proudly at 8 Victoria Street🗝️

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Jacko Cats @jackocats.bsky.social · Feb 16

Thank you, really enjoyed the challenge

Jacko Cats @jackocats.bsky.social · Feb 16

New Blog. The joy of solving the mystery of a treasured family #Wedding #OldPhotos due to the collaboration of myself & @lynnswafflespics.bsky.social sharing our skills #FamilyHistory #Billinghay #Lincolnshire #Genealogy @oneplacestudies.bsky.social
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“Mystery Marriage” solved for John Wise & Jane Watson – Smith of Billinghay.

💖Valentine’s weekend. Mystery Wedding photo solved!💕

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Jacko Cats @jackocats.bsky.social · Feb 14

💝New Blog💖Celebrating #ValentinesDay
🌸❤️🌸❤️🌸❤️
Part 1 of the story of Mr John Wise & Miss Jane Watson Smith who were married at #StMicheals #Billinghay in 1910 #Lincolnshire #FamilyHistory #Genealogy
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💝Valentine’s Day💖

💝There is an even bigger surprise still to come in the story of Mr John Wise and Miss Jane Watson Smith!💖

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Jacko Cats @jackocats.bsky.social · Jan 27

New Blog. 🏍️Grenadier Guards 1st Battalion Speedway Team: A Legacy of the Hellcats (1947–1952)🏍️
#GrenadierGuards #Military #OldPhotos #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #Speedway #Hellcats #GuardsMuseum #London
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Grenadier Guards 1st Battalion Speedway Team: A Legacy of the Hellcats (1947–1952)

On January 20, 2025, Heather and I went to The Guards Museum in Wellington Barracks, London

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Jacko Cats @jackocats.bsky.social · Jan 18

I've added a new page to my Blog entitled Toynbee One-Name Study. In the hope that it might lead to more descendants of the name variations to make contact with me.
#Toynbee #OneNameStudy #FamilyHistory #DNA #Genealogy #Lincolnshire
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Toynbee One-Name Study

Study Variants are Toynbee, Toynby, Toinbee, Toinby, Toynbe

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Jacko Cats @jackocats.bsky.social · Jan 12

A New Blog about a recent acquisition #OldPostcards dating from approximately 1906 to 1911, entitled "Waterside - Billinghay." #Billinghay #Lincolnshire
#FamilyHistory #Genealogy #OnePlaceStudy
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Postcard of a boat on the Waterside or not!!

But, alas we are not finished! another surprise was waiting in the wings.

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Jacko Cats @jackocats.bsky.social · Dec 30

New Blog. Finds from the #Billinghay & #Anwick areas of #Lincolnshire reported in the local papers over #Christmas & #NewYear in past times #Military #WW1 #TheShipInn #LincolnshireRegiment
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🎄📰Finds from the Newspaper Archives with a Christmas/New Year theme🎄🗞️

From the Newspaper Archives. With a right Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!🎉

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Lynns Waffles Pics @lynnswafflespics.bsky.social · Dec 26

New Blog. Six #OldPostcards I recently bought from Paul on eBay, not only were they all sent to the same lady but they are all great #OldPhotos too!
Who was Minnie Reeves? #FamilyHistory
#Gloucestershire #Somerset #Oxfordshire
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🎄Who was Minnie Reeves of Ashchurch, Tewkesbury?👒

Six postcards, all sent to the same lady Minnie Reeves, who was she?

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Jacko Cats @jackocats.bsky.social · Dec 24

🎄Christmas Blog🌟
'No Room at the Inn' for Joseph & Mary.
The #FamilyHistory of two Joseph & Mary's on my #FamilyTree #Billinghay #Anwick #Lincolnshire
#ChristmasBlog #SouthKyme #NorthKyme #CoachAndHorses #OnePlaceStudy #Genealogy #Ancestry #Family
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🔔’No Room at the Inn’ Joseph and Mary🎄

Did I have any Joseph & Mary’s living in Billinghay or Anwick on my family tree?

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Jacko Cats @jackocats.bsky.social · Dec 10

Christmas is Here!
@Wentworth_House
Where you can experience a magical visit through the State Rooms, and then enter the West Front Gardens for a beautiful light trail.🎅🏻🎄❄️ #WentworthWoodhouse #Rotherham #Yorkshire #Christmas
My Blog..a sneak peek🎄🎅🏻
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🎄’Twas the Night before Christmas at Wentworth Woodhouse🎄

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse

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Jacko Cats @jackocats.bsky.social · Nov 23

New Blog📔Recording my #Volunteering journey at #WentworthWoodhouse the stately home of the former seats of the #Wentworth & Fitzwilliam families #Yorkshire #HouseHistory #Stubbs #Rotherham
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📔My Volunteering Journey

I hope that my journey will inspire you to visit this remarkable historical house

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Jacko Cats @jackocats.bsky.social · Nov 23

Thank you Valerie, looking forward to seeing you there 🎅🏻🤶🏻