The first time that I heard about any family connection to Thomas Hardy the famous author, was after my Mother passed away in 1997, and I had travelled back to England from Indiana, where I had moved to 3 years before. It was in my Aunt’s house in Rugby where a group of close relatives […]
My Great Grandfather, Joseph Hurst, who you can see here, was just one of the influences in my desire to research my family history. I remember as a small boy when we used to visit him in the nursing home where he lived before he passed away, that he talked about having traced the family […]