Tim Powys-Lybbe asks can I verify some of the ancestry of Annie Powys, my great-great grandmother?

Catherine Sampson takes a look at some local men’s experiences in the Far East. VJ Day has always been something of a poor relation to VE Day, yet many Berkshire villages had men who were in the Far East, Purley included. Several villagers, including subsequent incomers, would laterbriefly recall their ordeal in the camps, including one of Purley’s rectors.

Dennis Grover follows his paternal great-grandather Fred Grover's journey to Australia

Gillian Hazell tells us of her grandmothers’ life. Frances Ellen Marshall was born in 1894 to single mother, Elizabeth Marshall, an inmate of Wokingham workhouse, situated in Barkham Road.

Richard Brown shares an example of why you should verify all the stories you’ve been told

Penny Stokes takes a look at a long gone substitute for divorce

Fred Waite tells the story of a much-travelled ancestor - William Watkins Waite and his travelling family