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You need not feel anxious about your daughter, Mr Box

Previous Index Next My Great Aunt, Margaret Box, left Britain on the 17th of September 1918 to serve as a nurse in Salonica and Serbia. Her father, my Great Grandfather, John Box, clearly did not hear from her for a while as he contacted The Scottish Women’s Hospitals for Home and Foreign Service (London Society… Continue reading You need not feel anxious about your daughter, Mr Box

Margaret Box, nursing in Salonica and Serbia

Margaret Ada Box (1890-1986), my Great Aunt, daughter of John Box, volunteered as a Civilian Red Cross Nurse in 1918, with the Scottish Women’s Hospitals. She has a record at Forces War Records (which needs Full Access Membership to see it),  which shows that her Department was “Scot. Women”, her Rank was “N.S.” (whatever that… Continue reading Margaret Box, nursing in Salonica and Serbia

Renowed Rebbecks

My Great Great Aunt was Lilian Jane Stevens,  the Aunt of my Grandmother, born Doris Joan Stevens, who married George Edward Lines in 1922. Lilan Jane Stevens married Edward Wise Rebbeck in 1896. The Lines family kept in touch with the Rebbeck family, as is shown by their news appearing in The Pickwick Paper, a… Continue reading Renowed Rebbecks

The Apprentice

This article is not about the British television show, nor the American one, but about my Grandfather, George Lines, who was an apprentice at Clayton and Shuttleworth – a four year apprenticeship, ending in December 1911. Clayton and Shuttleworth were a Lincoln based engineering company, mainly focussed, before WW1, on agricultural machinery. On the 4th… Continue reading The Apprentice

Birthday wishes from Margaret Webster to Ada Webster.

Ada Webster, born on the 30th November 1861, was my Great Grandmother. She married my Great Grandfather, John Box in  1884. Her sister, Margaret Elizabeth Webster, born 23rd November 1851, wrote to her on the 29th November 1867, to wish her a happy 6th birthday. My sister has the letter. Here is the transcription 42… Continue reading Birthday wishes from Margaret Webster to Ada Webster.

Where is everybody – The Fermi Paradox, Self replicating spacecraft and computer system reliability

In 1950 the physicist Enrico Fermi asked the question “Where is everybody ?“, by which he meant – given the size of the universe, the diversity of life on earth, occupying every ecological niche, and the fact that the Solar System is a fairly average star system; why do we not see signs of extra… Continue reading Where is everybody – The Fermi Paradox, Self replicating spacecraft and computer system reliability

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