Pursues The Ceaseless Way

This is a generously detailed history of an English East Midland family and its ancestral lives in an unfolding historical landscape. We are taken from a country marriage in 1939 bath to 1042 Normandy and the founding of L’Abbaye Saint-VIgor, to 1610 Virginia, 1854 Sevastopol in the Crimea Campaign, 1861 Sitapur during the Siege of Lucknow and the carnage of Passchendale, We become companions to new lives in 1861 Michigan, 1870 New Zealand and 1930 Australia. 

It touches every aspect of the human condition from the multiple Manorial Lordships to orphanages and, at the end, the workhouse. The detail from validated sources is impressive - dates, family structures, names and histories, residences, occupations, illegitimacies, infantile deaths, adoptions, wills, probates and epitaphs. All are commented on with a wealth of interpretative notes, references, annotations and observations. 

Drawing from classical mythology, etymology, social and national history, heraldry and theological sources, it is uncompromising in its research but written with humanity and humour. 

This is a seminal model for all family researchers, and if there is a Black. Giles, Haines, Hern, Horton, Lord, Mackley, Mounteney, Parker, Povah or Roper in your genes then this is an invaluable part of your family history.