Mystery Solved!

Decided to post the picture featured in my last post onto the Birmingham History Forum website www.birminghamhistory.co.uk

Posted it under the Come Fly With Me? and within a very short time had a reply back from some one calling them self oldMohawk.  Turns out that this airplane was a Miles M.2H Hawk Major registered in November 1934 and sold to The Aeronautical Training Centre of India in June 1937, which means the photograph was taken at sometime between those dates.  OldMohawk even tracked down an old photograph of the airplane and here it is:-     

It exactly matches the aircraft in the old photograph that my mother is pictured against and even though the registration marking is different - G-ACZO instead of that in my picture of G-ACZJ it is most certainly the same plane even down to the hinges just to the right of the registration marking!

That is I must say, truly amazing but it does just go to show how a photograph can be dated even if the date has not been written on the reverse!

My first post

This is the first blog about the Sewell Family Tree that I have been researching off and on now for the best part of 5 years.  However, like a lot of family historians out there I have come to realise that I had previously just been on a "collect as many names as possible journey" and so after reading Thomas MacEntee's book The Genealogy Do-Over Workbook, decided to try something new and so here it is!!

Although this Blog is called the Sewell Family Tree Blog, there are other surnames that I am researching and these include on my father's side - the Sewell side of the tree that is - Pritchard, Worrall, Tranter, Bennett and Jones.  On my mother's side there is Field, Shreeves, Horwood and Hollis.

Yesterday I looked a fresh at my mother's birth certificate - well actually it wasn't the full certificate, so I sent off for that, but that's by the by.  She was born Doris Mary Field and her date of birth was 24 July 1914 which was exactly 4 days before the start of World War 1!  Until yesterday I hadn't really thought about that!

Here is a picture of my Mom and I am guessing that she is probably somewhere in her 20's here but as is usual, there is nothing noted on the reverse of the although it is mounted on a post card!

I wish I knew where this was taken!  I can only assume it was taken somewhere in Birmingham as that is where the Field family was living at the time.  Was it Birmingham airport I wonder?

Anyway that is all I will post for the moment, but please note that I do have lots more information that I would be glad to share and exchange with you.