Personal papers were hugely helpful to Christine in her research. Above, Mary Agnes Cowley’s notes and Robert Stothers’ book on RH Cowley, from the Cowley family collection
What mines of information Professor Google and all those rabbit holes can sometimes lead us to! This was my experience a few years ago when a research project unexpectedly revealed some unconventional early sources that I was able to use to supplement – and even compensate for – the absence of more familiar genealogical records.