UK: St Guthlac & the Wyles Family of Market Deeping! (19.8.2026)

At the above link you will find a short blog post on the “Wyles Family of Duddington” site that we maintain. This has been built-up over many years and serves as depository for all of our research regarding my “Wyles” ancestors who lived in a single Northamptonshire village for well-over 500-years. Of course, branches of our family spread to places like King’s Cliffe, Ketton, East-on-the-Hill, Stamford, and Tixover, etc. Well, recently I was contacted by an individual who informed me that “Wyles” people also live in “Market Deeping” – a village around 13-miles north-east of Duddington. I cannot remember if we have driven through or by it – but we will certainly make an effort to stop and carry-out research in this place the next time we are in the Duddington area!

Duddington Plaque Contains Our "Wyles" Ancestors!

Northants: Duddington [Area] War Memorials – Digitalised! (1.8.2025)

We have been travelling around Duddington and the surrounding area – research genealogical information for the local surname “Wyles”. Whilst carrying-out this vital historical investigation – we decided to gather data pertaining to the often forgotten War Memorials and Rolls of Honour. We include four such projects that we have completed this week (we are thinking of extending this to any area we find old Churches containing War Memorials).

Northants: King’s Cliffe Home Guard! (5.11.2023)

Even during the Churchill-generated hysteria of the 1950s – which saw the UK reactivate the ‘Civil Defence’ concept as part of the US anti-intellectual ‘Cold War’ propaganda – the Home Guard was never reconstructed. Churchill refused to trust a ‘Socialist’ entity that empowered the workers to put up a fight against the Soviet Union – a former ally of the UK! Much of this ‘Socialist’ history of the Home Guard is hidden behind a thin veneer of military officialdom, with such and such a ‘Battalion’, this ‘Company’, or that ‘Platoon’! The point is that Britain needed the working-class at its best during WWII and the Home Guard became a highly effective vehicle to realise this objective.