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Click the heading for more photos of Sir Arundel Arundel Sir Arundel Tagg Arundel KCSI, CIE, (1843-1929) was my maternal great-grandfather. Arundel had two sons and four daughters:  Marian Fraser (known as Nina) , who was my grandmother, Violet Harriet (known as Vi and who married Evelyn Norrie), Arthur Duncan Stuart, Edith Mary and Margaret Helen Sir Arundel Tagg Arundel, K.C.S.I, was the second son of William Tagg, Esq , (1808 - 1881) and Rachel Mary Drew (died 1889), daughter of Samuel Drew, Esq. Samuel Drew was born on June 4th 1838, Beatrice on April 14th 1841, Arundel on July 1st 1843 and Emily-Mary born Sept 4th 1848. Arundel was educated at University College School and at University College, London (B.A. London 1863); and married Catherine Helen Sim (1853 - 1933), eldest daughter of the James Duncan Sim, Esq., C.S.L, Madras Civil Service. Arundel entered the Indian Civil Service in 1865. In 1870 he assumed the surname of Arundel (instead of Tagg - the family regula...

Radha and Neil married in Sydney on 5th June 2004. The service was at St Mary's Church, and the reception at the Australian Golf Club. Click here for photos of the wedding and here for events around it. Fung, Marijke, Edward and Connie Edward and Marijke married in Melbourne in October 2005. Click here for photos

The family at Quay West Christmas 2003 The family came together at Christmas in December 2003 and for New Year. We stayed at Quay West and watched the fireworks from the balcony. The Australian cricket team were having a party on the next balcony. Click the heading for some more photos

Granny Nina with her second husband Sir Alfred Herbert at Dunley c 1953 [Photo by Gavin Vapenik, his grandson]. Click the heading for more photos My grandmother, Marian Fraser Arundel (known as Nina), was born in 1874 in India, the eldest daughter of Sir Arundel Tagg Arundel KCIS and Catherine Sim. Here siblings were Violet Harriet (known as Vi, who married Evelyn Norrie), Arthur Duncan Stuart, Edith Mary and Margaret Helen. Nina and her sisters. She is second from the left. She married Archie Pugh - later Col AJ Pugh CBE, VD on 18th December 1904 in Calcutta Cathedral . He was a solicitor in Calcutta and a member (and from 1912 Colonel ) of the Calcutta Light Horse for 32 years. They had six children - Archie ((1908), Jimmie (1910), my mother Annette born in 1914, Ivor (1916), Michael (1918) and David (1922). The children were brought up mainly in Wales, at the family home at Cwmcodwig, Llanfarian. Their cousin Ruth Howard (born 1910) who rem...

One Christmas during the declaration* of war was spent in Uncle Archie and Aunt Nina's house Cwm Coedwig* & was very jolly. Nearly twenty children all first cousins must have gathered in this hospitable house. Saunders & nanny Howard were in change in the nursery * they were great friends. Nanny Howard [was] tall & thin with a very quite * & nanny Saunders round* rosy* & very forceful as she had had to be. Ruth & cousin Annette who were to remain friends all their lives would argue with each other as to whose nanny was the best. Annette had a pony called Creamy & was made to share it with Ruth. Uncle Archie would take his * small sons out to the local hunt. Griffith went too & either Annette or Ruth depending on whose turn it was. As the winter dusk fell the long hack home had to be done with pain & grief saddle sores & aching limbs to* the* blowing of horns* * * & good but the horses & ponies had to be put away rubbed down {20}...

Annette , my mother, with David and Ruth in Wales c.1920 Ros y Gilwen / Morgenau – First World War {1} It was a cold bright spring day when the children arrived with nanny –Alice Saunders – at Ros y Gilwen. Rooks were cawing & wood pigeons cooing. Sheep were in the big field under the ha-ha & a few early lambs bleated plaintively. Griffith had ridden all the way from Shrewsbury sitting up * beside the chauffeur in front. He was very thin with round blue eyes & fiery red hair. As soon as the car drew up by the shallow wide slate steps he was out running about on spindly legs – he was a child who was into everything. His little sister Ruth, Baby as she was called, the youngest of the family was a sad sight. She was “delicate” so was bundled up into sheepskin coat, fleece outwards, on which she had been sick several times. Her red hair was hanging in bedraggled rats tails & her little face was pinched with misery. William & Margaret the butler & house parlour maid ...

Lawford Hall at Lawford in Essex There are two Lawford Halls. One is at Long Lawford, near Rugby and the other at Lawford near Manningtree, Essex. This is a photo from Geograph of the Hall at Little Lawford near Long Lawford, about which there is a fanciful story about ghosts to be found on an American website about Rugby. The relevant passage reads: "Not far from England's Rugby lie the ruined remains of Lawford Hall, where a family ancestor who had lost an arm during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I was known as One-Handed Boughton. After he died, his ghost was said to have appeared from time to time, riding across the neighboring grounds in a coach-and-six (a coach drawn by six horses), scaring the villagers out of their wits. A room in Lawford Hall which had been preserved as his bed-chamber was reputedly haunted. No-one could sleep in it, and none of the locals would work in it. The family finally decided to lay the ghost. The website describes the ceremony, wh...