G is for Greenwich
G is for Greenwich Royal Naval College Greenwich taken by Anne in 2008 on Flickr. Creative Commons Licence here. It's difficult not to be impressed by Greenwich. It positively oozes history. Henry VIII married Catherine of Aragon and Anne of Cleves here. Mary I and Elizabeth I were born here. It's the home of the Royal Observatory (up on the hill behind these buildings in the photo above) where the concept of Greenwich Mean Time originated. British mariners set their chronomoters to Greenwich Mean Time to calculate longitude. From a family history point of view the institutions that might be of interest are the following: Royal Greenwich Hospital - founded in 1694 by Queen Mary II for disabled and retired seamen, it closed its doors in October 1869. (Brian Lavery, Able Seamen , pp 61-63). The Family Historian's Enquire Within advises that: details of apprenticeships of pensioners' children and registers o...