Who Do You Think You Are?

‘ELIZABETH WAS A TRUE SURVIVOR’

PETA McCAULEY lives in Ledbury, Herefordshire. She has been researching her family tree for almost 30 years

My brother Ian has the unusual middle name of Algar, and had always wanted to know its origin,” explains Peta McCauley. “He shares it with our grandad and uncle, so it must be significant.”

Peta had already researched the life of her grandfather Joseph Thomas Algar Jackson, who

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