Family Tree Frog

    Eye colour Have you ever thought about the eye colour you've inherited?  Robert and I were discussing this the other day.  Where did we get our blue eyes from?  I think I got them from my Dad on the Conner side (English).  My mother had hazel eyes.  After meeting the McLoughlins (Irish) a few years ago, I realise I could have got my blue eyes from them too.  And a bit of research into military records shows the Forfars (Scottish) and Carretts (English) could be candidates too.   Robert thinks he got his blue eyes from his paternal grandmother.  She was a HINDE (English) but her father was a DUNCAN (Scottish) so maybe it's from that side.  Robert's eyes are a pale blue which you can see in my daughter Isabel's eyes.  My eyes are a darker blue which my son inherited from me. I remember both my maternal grandfather Tom and my paternal grandmother Ethel had brown eyes.  I didn't meet the other two grandparents and am ...

C is for Chatham Chatham (often referred to as Chats) was one of Britain's three naval bases - the others being Portsmouth and Plymouth. It was located on the River Medway. Here's a map so you can see them in relation to each other. Wikipedia tells us that Chatham was set up as a Royal Dockyard by Elizabeth 1 in 1567.  Perhaps the most famous vessel to be built in this dockyard is HMS Victory now housed at Portsmouth . Chatham was attacked by the Dutch in 1667 in the Raid on the Medway.  They burned ships and carried off the flagship HMS Royal Charles, part of which can still be seen in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. How galling. This is what the Dockyard looked like circa 1890 The Dockyard Chatham, England, Library of Congress.  No known copyright restrictions. The last warship to be built at Chatham was the Oberon-class submarine the HMCS Okanagan in 1966 according to this post here.  The dockyard closed in 1984. The Royal...