DNA – SPURRETT Family History

DNA here, there and everywhere

It was careless of me to be in Canada for St George’s Day when I should have at home doing English things like drinking beer and eating a curry. Of course it took some explaining how and why a Greek or Turk came to be our patron saint and that he never came to England… Continue reading DNA here, there and everywhere

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A Private of 30th Cambridge Foot Regiment in 1815

Well its been a busy few weeks in the world of Spurrett-ology. I have been wrestling with a little mystery of a certain Robert Spurrett who was a member of the 30th Cambridge Regiment of Foot and fought in Wellington’s army in the Peninsular Wars in the early 1800’s. The mystery arises because some other… Continue reading Spring shoots