By John Slaughter Welcome to new member Brandon Saul. Brandon is the grandson of long term member Peter Saul whom some of you may remember. Peter joined the Society in 1992 not long after it was started and remained a member until his sad passing in 2018. Peter was a regular contributor to this journal …
Category archives: Co-ordinator’s Reports
SAUL Co-ordinator’s Report April 2023
By John Slaughter Findmypast have recently released a list of Civil Service Commision Appointments, Promotions and Transfers between 1871 and 1942. This list has been compiled from the London Gazette where such appointments were announced. I found that there were 25 Sauls listed. PostmanOf the twenty five listed five were for appointments as postmen. The …
SAUL Co-ordinator’s Report April 2014
By John Slaughter New enquiries, of any significance, have been sparse. So I have been spending some time recently in updating/amending family charts using the extensive data that is nowadays freely available on the Internet.One site that I have been using is the Lancashire Online Parish Clerks (OPC) at www.lan-opc.org.uk. This site aims to extract …
SAUL Co-ordinator’s Report December 2022
By John Slaughter I was very pleased to meet Carol Constable and her brother Christopher Saul at our Annual Gathering in October. We have traced their Saul ancestry back to a Robert Saul and Mary (nee Pye) who lived at Mundesley, Norfolk. Robert died at Mundesley in 1834 but his widow lived on until 1874. …
SAUL Co-ordinator’s Report August 2014
By John Slaughter Welcome to new members Leanne Sawle and Jessica Coombes. Leanne and I had a brief exchange of messages on the Forum back in September 2012. Leanne was trying to find out what had happened to her great grandfather Ernest Sawle of Beacon/Camborne, Cornwall. Ernest had married Lilian Marion Richards in 1905 and …
SAUL Co-ordinator’s Report December 2014
By John Slaughter Welcome to three new members Patricia Saull, Richard Sawle and James O’Reilly. Patricia Saull is the niece of one time member Vincent Saull with whom I had some very interesting correspondence in the late 1990’s and we were able to link his ancestral line back to Horley in Oxfordshire in the 17th …
SAUL Co-ordinator’s Report April 2015
By John Slaughter I am pleased to welcome new members Valerie Sawle and Laurence Boswell-Saul and also to welcome back to the membership Barbara Armstrong.At the time of writing I have no details of Valerie’s Sawle connection but will hopefully be able to report on this in the next journal.Laurence Boswell-Saul is the brother of …
SAUL Co-ordinator’s Report August 2022
By John Slaughter In my previous report I gave details from the workhouse records released by Findmypast for some Norfolk workhouses. Findmypast have now released further workhouse records, this time in respect of the Oldham, Lancashire workhouse. There were a number of Saul entries.George Saul of Oldham was admitted to the workhouse on 19 May …
SAUL Co-ordinator’s Report April 2022
By John Slaughter In my report in the December 2021 journal I reported on the correspondence I had had with Susie Pape. Without repeating too much of the details here, we were looking for evidence of the origin of Thomas Henry Saul who had married Freda Wood in 1917 in Bradford, Yorkshire. Susie had linked …
SAUL Co-ordinator’s Report December 2015
By John Slaughter I am pleased to welcome new member MG Whittard. MG is a descendant of the Sawles at Gerrans, Cornwall and is currently concentrating on proving sources for James Ehud Sawle with particular emphasis on his second marriage. James Ehud Sawle was born in Dalston, London in 1857 and married firstly Emily Harding …