Software developer by day. Baker, knitter, and hobbyist Franklin expedition genealogist by night. alongblank.com. 🇨🇦
Katie G
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Big thanks to Katherine Ryan, the managing director of the Randall House, for the tour!
Prior to this trip I'd done all my research on a laptop at home, so it was a thrill to be able to tour the house and walk through a home that Charles' family, and likely also himself, had stood in.
The problem with Charles Best is that there are so many online and local resources about his family that I can actually dig in to him personally in a way that I can't with most sailors from Europe, and I've become a little obsessed.
HMS Terror AB Charles Johnson you continue to elude me…
Though I only searched the Anglican and Presbyterian churches, not the Roman Catholic ones and some other denominations I guess
While I was going through Halifax baptisms to research the Best family, I was also double tasking by seeing if I could find some potential baptism records for Charles Johnson.
I thought probably I‘d find a few dozen Charles Johnsons, given it seems like a common name. But somehow I found none!
