Lucy Whitfield

Former hack, renegade parent, morris dancer, musician, crafter, genealogist, historian, children's song enthusiast, Press Gang geek, superwoman...
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[Lucy Whitfield @katchuri]

@morefromchris Suede, Glastonbury 1993.

[Ellie Eagle-Skinner @serenceinwyn]

I have a small following but I’d really appreciate if any of you can retweet the poster for my husband’s debut #edfringe show. It’s a brilliant show with stories jokes & music about the adventures of being a folk singing comedian when you’re blind. @MichaelRosenYes can you help?

[Lucy Whitfield @katchuri]

Still, the name Freelove for me always brings to mind the character of Topaz from Dodie Smith's I Capture The Castle, as a hippy before her time, and in my mind's eye she inhabits some of that book's lovely images.

[Lucy Whitfield @katchuri]

Spent part of today researching & learning about the fabulously-named Freelove, who ran this pub in Bradford-on-Avon.
With that name, you'd be forgiven for thinking she came from the 1960s, but she was born in about 1823 near Semington, and ran The Plough in the 1850s & 60s.

[Lucy Whitfield @katchuri]

or Thermuthis and Quevedo even if their parents were farmers or bankers, and it could be that her name came via that route. Or her parents were wider thinkers of the day in the 1820s.

[Lucy Whitfield @katchuri]

And now, perhaps, I might get some sleep.

[Lucy Whitfield @katchuri]

Things your pet genealogist thinks about while she can’t sleep…
…that the Bridgerton siblings’ names are all far too Catholic to be authentically aristocratic for the period in which it’s set, and what those names really should be.
What would your guesses be?🧵

[Lucy Whitfield @katchuri]

And Hyacinth is a bit out there even in the early 19th century, so to fit she’d probably have been Harriet or Henrietta.
So, there we are: Arthur, Benjamin, Charles, Diana, Elizabeth, Frances, George and Harriet – the new, more correctly named, Bridgertons.

[Lucy Whitfield @katchuri]

@LRylandEpton Oh well done!!
I knew from looking at Maud's bequest, that she must have been a wealthy widow with no dependents and not an egg seller, and that the document hadn't specified the causeway.
Fantastic work. If I hadn't been dragged into a concert, I'd have been at the talk.