Who Do You Think You Are?

‘SEPTIMUS WAS A MATHS PRODIGY’

ANNE KIDSON is a retired library assistant and publishing marketing executive who lives in Oxford

My interest in genealogy was sparked in my early teens, when I found a family Bible that had names in it,” says Anne Kidson. “I remember my mother telling me that we had a schoolmaster in the family, who taught at Rivington Grammar School in Lancashire.”

In 2010, Anne decided

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