Messina
Conte Francesco Messina
Francesco Messina was the youngest son of Count Rosario Messina To visit the full Genealogy Page please click on:- Messina
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Crofton Photographs – Salt Spring Island.
Salt Spring Island Archives has an abundance of memorabilia relating to the Crofton Family. The Crofton Family first arrived on the island in 1898 and became an integral part of the history of the Island. The […]
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Baron Crofton – Peerage of Ireland
The Crofton Baronetcy, of The Mote in County Roscommon, was created in the Baronetage of Ireland on 1 July 1661 for Edward Crofton, as a reward for his record of loyalty to King Charles II […]
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Harbour House Hotel Ganges Salt Spring Island BC
History of the Harbour House Hotel Early in the 1900s, newlyweds Alfred Fred Crofton and Nona Wilson bought Jack Scovell’s 100-acre seafront farm at the head of Ganges Harbour. They set about raising livestock, fruit, […]
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Price Family
The Price Family Thomas Price was well established in the Welsh border county of Powys in the 1700s. His second child, Eleanor, married a Welsh man, Dai Pritchard and spent the rest of her life […]
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WW2 – Halifax Bomber Training Crash
The following article was written by Johnny Foster, the rear gunner in Crew 81. It appeared in the “Ex Air Gunners’ Association of Canada” newsletter – issue #61 – dated March 1998. A Halifax Experience […]
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Sir William Henry May
Of great interest is the full biography of William Henry May Click on his name and it will direct you to his List of Appointments and to chapter 1 of his memoirs There is no […]
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Family Crest
Admiral of the Fleet Sir William Henry May, G.C.B., G.C.V.O. was assigned Arms and Crest by letters Patent in 1913. He was also granted supporters but these were personal to himself as a G.C.B. and […]
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The Return of King Willem 1 to the Netherlands
Captain -Royal Navy & Rear Admiral Dutch Navy, Job Seaburne May – H.M.S. Warrior sails to the Netherlands with Prince William of Orange On November 19th 1813 Jacob baron Fagel set sail in a “pink” […]
Admiral May
Sir George Nares The British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876
The inscription on this compass reads as follows:- “Lent by Lieutenant W.H.May to Comander A.H. Markham to navigate sledge party to 83′ 20 25″. The highest point ever reached 12th May 1876.” The British Arctic […]