Last night was our AGM attending were 47 via zoom and 36 in the room. We had our election of Officers on the committee and we now have a new Chair Andy Harbon, and the present committee members were re-elected unopposed and we have three other members who were voted on unopposed. Andy thanked Philip Langford who was our interim Chair for stepping in over the past few months. #historysocieties #genealogy

Wednesday humour #genealogy #history #familyhistory #historysocieties

Our Spring Doncaster Ancestor Journal is now out. #genealogy #historysocieties

If you would like to become a member of our society you will get 14 months membership for the price of 12 if you join in February. For more information please go to our brand new website which Andy has set up. #historysocieties #doncaster

Our AGM and Members Meeting is on 22nd February 2023, 7.30pm at Castle Park. After the AGM our Room Speaker will be Eric Jackson giving a talk about 'After You Are Dead'. This will be a hybrid meeting. #doncaster #historysocieties #genealogy

Commemorating another war hero who is commerated on the Thorne War Memorial.
Trooper Stanley Riddin Skeels 7888891
5th Royal Tank Regiment ‘C’ Squadron
Born 1919, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
Son of Daniel Skeels and Harriett Lessen
Husband of Iris Gwendoline Beal, married 1940, Goole
Died 16th September 1943, Italy, age 25
Buried Salerno War Cemetery Italy. #thorne #doncaster #WW2 #history #geneaolgy #historysocieties

Commemorating another war hero who is commerated on the Thorne War Memorial.
Driver John Shipley 14529248
Born 1919, Thorne
565 Army Field Company Royal Engineers
Died 31st July 1944 age 25
Buried Bologna War Cemetery Italy. #thorne #doncaster #WW2 #history #genealogy #historysocieties

The date of our next Help Desk is on Monday 13th February 2023 at Armthorpe Community Library, 10.00am -1.45pm. Please come and join us, you have free access to Find My Past and Ancestry websites and volunteers are on hand to help. This is open to everyone, you do not have to be a member of our society. #armthorpe #doncaster #genealogy #historysocieties

Tissot, for his part, seems genuinely to have loved her and to have found inspiration in her gentle beauty that would last a lifetime."
She appeared in many of Tissot's paintings of the late 70s and early 80s. Sadly, Kathleen contracted tuberculosis and died, aged just 28, at the house in Grove End Road on November 9th 1882; the funeral took place at the Church of Our Lady, Lisson Grove, St John's Wood on the 14th November #genealogy #historysocieties

Yet the couple spent six happy years together and Kathleen inspired some outstanding Tissot pictures.
According to one Tissot expert, the late Michael Wentworth: "For Kathleen Newton, whose chaotic romantic life had already taken her to India and left her with an illegitimate daughter, Tissot represented a second chance of a kind only too rare in Victorian England. #genealogy #history #historysocieties

It is not known who fathered Cecil, but Tissot biographer and BBC TV Antiques Roadshow expert Christopher Wood doubts that Tissot was the father.
Tissot's domestic arrangements would not cause any fuss now, but the idea of him living with an unmarried mother of two illegitimate children shocked and scandalised strait-laced Victorian society and as a result Tissot and Kathleen were shunned. #geneaology #history #historysocieties

Kathleen and her infant daughter went to live with her sister Mary and her husband, at their home in St John's Wood, London, close to Tissot's home.
One day Kathleen went out to post a letter and met Tissot. They fell in love and in 1876 she moved in to Tissot's house. On March 21, 1876, she gave birth to another illegitimate child, a son, Cecil George. #genealogy #history #historysocieties

Famous Doncastrians: The Newtons. Kathleen told her husband about the affair, but only after they were married. Mr Newton promptly started divorce proceedings and Kathleen returned home to England. A few months later, in 1871, 17-year-old Kathleen gave birth at her father's Conisbrough home to daughter Muriel Violet Mary. #genealogy #history #historysocieties

Just a reminder that the January (25th) Members Meeting is cancelled.
This is due to unforeseen circumstances that we have had to cancel. The next meeting will be taking place on the 22nd February which will include the AGM, see our website for more details. #doncaster #historysocieties #genealogy

Commemorating another war hero who is commerated on the Thorne War Memorial.
Sergeant Edward Rowley 4688786
Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 1/4th Battalion
Born in 1911, Rotherham
Parents James Theodore Rowley and Clara Nuttall of Thorne
Died 29th March 1945 age 32
Buried at Jonkerbos War Cemetery, Nijmegen, Netherlands. #thorne #doncaster #WW2 #historysocieties #genealogy

Commemorating another war hero who is commerated on the Thorne War Memorial.
Harry Plows 2659162 Guardsman
Coldstream Guards 5th Battalion
Born 1923, Goole, Yorkshire
Died 8th September 1844 age 21
Buried Leopoldsburg War Cemetery Belgium
Son of Harry Plows and Blanche E Simpson of Moorends. #thorne #doncaster #WWII #genealogy #historysocieties #familyhistory

Saturday humour 😂😂#genealogy #historysocieties

Commemorating another war hero who is commerated on the Thorne War Memorial.
Lance Corporal William Phillips T/136360 Royal Army Corps
Born 1919, South Shields, Durham
Son of Samuel Phillips and Sarah Elizabeth Lye of Moorends, Doncaster.
William Phillips married Sybil Elsie Hewlett in 1943, Southend on Sea, Essex
William died on 28th March 1945, Aldershot, Hampshire age 25
Buried at Thorne Cemetery. #thorne #doncaster #genealogy #historysocieties

Remembering another miner who lost his life in the Cadeby Colliery explosion in 1912.
Sam Webster pit Deputy. Sam was born in 1871, Coleorton, Leicestershire. He lived with his family at 19 Ivanhoe Road, Conisbrough. Sam was killed on 9th July 1912 Cadeby Colliery. He was buried in Rotherham Cemetery. He was a member of the Primitive Methodist Chapel and was a Lay Preacher on the Mexborough Circuit. #cadeby #doncaster #genealogy #historysocieties

Commemorating another war hero who is commerated on the Thorne War Memorial.
Lieutenant James Cuthbert Page 264587
Royal Northumberland Fusiliers
Born 1919, Thorne, Yorkshire
Son of James William Page and Margaret Simpson of Scarborough
On the 1939 Register James was a student (Pharmacy) and lived at The Chase, Cuckoo Lane, Thorne
Died 20th February 1945 age 25
Buried at Reichswald Forest Cemetery Germany #thorne #WWII #doncaster #genealogy #historysocieties #history