


Who do you think you are to make judgements?
Another season of ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ is about to start on British TV and so begins the yearly ritual of me shouting

William Rainbow, non-conformist?
If you’ve been here before you’ll know that I’m forever going on about my ‘brick wall’ William Rainbow. I know that he married Phoebe Taylor

The error of our ways
I’ve only just started using Family Tree Maker. I think I may have used it for a while years ago but quickly moved on to

October 1841
170 years ago this month Jabez Rainbow lost it. He had taken a room at The Boot public house in St. Albans, Herts, England for

Wordless Wednesday
Hilda Margaret Wilkins (1906-1992) , my grandmother. Taken in 1931, the year before she married my grandfather, Leonard Rainbow.

Not a Rainbow
My Dad was a posthumous baby. His own Dad died in 1929 from influenza, at the young age of 33, just five months before Derek
Walks Thro' Coventry
He describes the significant buildingsand businesses of the day and transports us backto a different place, before two world wars,the decimation of the city by the Blitz and the rebuilding of modern Coventry.New illustrations and foreword by Paula Jeffery, Edwin's great, great granddaughter.