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Arriving in Ponta Delgada

July 16, 2019by davidivens 3 Comments

So, there I am in July 2019, with my 2nd Cousin, Ann Boyer, and my 4th Cousin, Jose Bela Morais standing beside the statue of Thomas Hickling – my grandfather’s […]

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Adventurers, Azores, Bledington, Businesses, Everyday, Genealogy, History, Migration, Portuguese Branch, Swinbrook, Swinbrook Branch

Birthday Tragedy

June 21, 2018by davidivens Leave a comment

I’ve been drawn to a newspaper article of September 11th, 1913. It concerns Arthur Ivens Croft: Born in 1880 to Thomas and Emma Maria Croft (nee Perrin). It’s the inclusion […]

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Aston, Birmingham, Genealogy, Mysteries, Swinbrook, Swinbrook Branch, Tragedies, World War I

Following the Trail, from Swinbrook

February 18, 2018by davidivens Leave a comment

My ancestors can be traced from the village of Swinbrook, Oxfordshire around 1720. A few weeks ago I found an elusive link which suggested that the key man, Robert, actually […]

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Bledington, Genealogy, Parish Records, Rissington, Swinbrook, Swinbrook Branch

A small breakthrough: Ivens of Swinbrook

October 14, 2017by davidivens 7 Comments

We know that one Robard Eyvens emerged in Swinbrook, Oxon around 1718. We have a letter from his grandson, Joseph: “My Grandfather came to Swinbrook about the year 1718 out […]

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Bledington, Daylesford, Genealogy, Parish Records, Quenington, Gloucs, Stow on the Wold, Swinbrook, Swinbrook Branch, Warwickshire Branch

Coat of Arms – granted 200 years ago

August 27, 2016by davidivens 2 Comments

I am reminded by a cousin (Guilherme Maia de Loureiro), that the Ivens Coat of Arms was granted to William Ivens on August 25th, 1816, and recorded in the College […]

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Azores, Genealogy, Honours, Portuguese Branch, Swinbrook, Swinbrook Branch

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Ricardo Julio Ivens-Ferraz
Ricardo Julio Ivens-Ferraz
Artur Ivens-Ferraz
Artur Ivens-Ferraz
2007-04-17 10.40.58
Catherine Prescott Ivens-Ferraz in the centre surrounded by TL: Artur, Ricardo Julio, Guilherme, Leonor and Severiano Alberto
Catherine Prescott Ivens-Ferraz in the centre surrounded by TL: Artur, Ricardo Julio, Guilherme, Leonor and Severiano Alberto
Thomas Hickling
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