by paul.a.ricketts@gmail.com | Mar 12, 2023 | The Muller Family
Home » People Exploring the Social Life of Women in Saffron Walden in the 1890’s Elsie May Cox was born at the start of a dramatic period of change in British society, as women balked against Victorian gender roles and as geopolitics forced the country to start the... 
by paul.a.ricketts@gmail.com | Nov 17, 2021 | The Muller Family
Louis Muller’s Starr’s Hotel highlighted in the north of Finsbury Square from an old 1873 OS Map We believe that Jakob Louis Muller arrived in the Holburn District of London in the 1860s, after which he took a job as a waiter. He had emigrated from Baden... 
by paul.a.ricketts@gmail.com | Feb 18, 2021 | The Ricketts Family
There’s an old story that our Ricketts lineage had a connection to the Tolpuddle Martyrs. But the Martyrs story is well documented and told many times, and there’s no mention of any Ricketts’. So, if there is a connection it’s more by... 
by paul.a.ricketts@gmail.com | Aug 16, 2020 | The Burright Family
Cornelius Warren Burright was the son of Orrin Burright and the grandson of Cornelius Burright. He was born in Van Wert County, Ohio in 1842. By 1861 Cornelius had moved to Iowa, where he enlisted as a volunteer in ‘G’ company of the 14th Iowa Volunteer... 
by paul.a.ricketts@gmail.com | Jul 13, 2020 | Places, The Avera Family
Gasoline, Texas doesn’t sound like the most attractive place to live, but in the early 1900s, the Tracy family returned to this community three times after moving to other towns in Oklahoma, Texas, and Arizona. So, why was this Texas town named Gasoline, what... 
by paul.a.ricketts@gmail.com | Feb 18, 2020 | The Muller Family
17 Easebourne Street, in Easebourne, Sussex is an ancient wattle and daub, timber-framed building. It was a fixture of my childhood and remains a major touchstone in our family history. This was where my grandparents (on the Muller side) lived. It was where my brother...