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The Cowkeeper's Wish

A genealogical journey through poverty, war and love

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Kristen den Hartog & Tracy Kasaboski
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“This is the family history I wish I had written…. A combination of meticulous and genealogical research and fluid writing makes this a book that shouldn’t be missed. It is a perfect example of how both standard and unusual sources can be used creatively to allow us to imagine the details of our ancestors’ lives beyond the basic names and dates and places.”

Marian Press, Toronto Tree (Ontario Genealogical Society, TO Branch)

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Posts about way back when

Two terrors of the Borough
“The Degenerate Cockney”
Uncovering the cover
“There is no more detestable creature …”
The scented valentines of perfumer Eugene Rimmel
Lloyd’s “Long Lost Relatives” and the children of workhouse schools
Marrying your uncle, and other brow-raisers
The patient, the doctor, and his “facsimile”
Christmas in 1905: Stimulating the Economy Edwardian-style
Christmas weddings in Victorian England
Germans in England in WW1
“The stinky London of Charles Dickens”
“Sudden mental derangement” at East India House
Our grandmother’s scrapbook
War, PTSD, and “the Golden Rule Exchange”
Picnic Hill
An eccentric old woman and her ferocious black cat
Loss of the Mary Rose and Strongbow
An unknown soldier and an unconventional woman
Woman in White
Kate’s Story
The Power of Craft: Occupational Therapy in WW1
Meg Dods’ Stuffing and the Legacy of a Temperance Man
The Fashionable Craze of Today: A Victorian Tattoo Artist
A Victorian mourning card
The Crinoline Fires
Imagining the Radio Hour
Lost and found: a WW1 nurse
Mona Powder, Manx Perfume, and High-Class Boots
The Canary Girls of WW1
Singing in the Streets of London
“I am left a widow…”
Shell Shock, Unrequited Love, and Murder
Suicide of a Workhouse Midwife
The Fur-Puller’s Child
Descended of Rogues and Thieves
Two Flower Sellers, Poison, and a Mean Old Man
The Fighting Parson
Inspector of Nuisances

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1830s-1913: In Darkest London
1914-1920: The Noise of War
1919-1930s: The Forest City
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The elusive Ellen, discovered in the Stone Asylum casebook at the London Metropolitan Archives (City of London). This image appears with their permission.