Drake Collection
We having been watching the traffic to Down Rabbit Holes with some interest. Visitors from all over the world following up on our blogs and also now finding us via online searches and the links on the Crimean War Research Society web site. Visitors as expected from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, United Kingdom, and United States, but also from France, Greece, China, India and Canada amongst others.
On Tuesday we had an interesting visitor. Instead of just reading our material, he also contacted us to tell us that he had a collection of Drake family documents from a deceased estate and was looking for a home for them. The collection includes:
- The Drake family Bible dating from 1747 with records of births and some deaths
- The warrant from Queen Victoria granting William Henry Drake the rank of Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath
- Photographs
- Family letters
- Many other things.
This was all too tempting so we have bought the collection and will know its full extent when it arrives in the near future. From what we have seen, there will be some interesting new information to add to the family story which we will publish in due course.
It is good to see the web site helping uncover these hidden collections because without it we would not have been visible on Google.
As we say on the Home page, family history is like exploring rabbit warrens.
Wonderful to see the internet being used in this way. Finding homes for all the old things languishing in backyard sheds and attics and cellars.
Yes it is. The parcel has arrived and we are working through it. Some very interesting stuff.