Mathematics
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Twenty-sixth post…
Today I have added a page to the site on some musings on some of the mathematics of family history. ChatGPT tells me I’ve looked at… The mathematical complexity of tracing ancestry, highlighting that if considering the simple series of multiplying parents, we would theoretically have over a billion ancestors 30 generations back – an Continue reading
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Family tragedy: Just Williams
In May 1858 the Hull Daily News reported: Last Saturday, a sad accident occurred on the south side of the Queen’s Dock. It seems that a boy, seven years of age, named Peter William Clarke, son of a seaman [George Osbourne CLARK], who is at present, we understand, on a Greenland voyage, in the ‘Chase’, Continue reading
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