I've decided to start a blog, in order to being documenting my research about my great-grandfather John William Vincent...
In August 2015, I decided to start a bit of family history research. John William Vincent was certainly one of the more colourful 'characters' within my family tree. I have always grown up with the story of how he was the Bos'un of Shackleton's ship SY Endurance, which famously got stuck in the Antarctic Ice. The story always was the same, Vincent was denied the polar medal due to having disagreements with Shackleton with many of the other crew members.
An easy task, I thought, to start documenting a slightly famous historical person, I naively thought there would be LOADS of information.....
How wrong I was.
To make matters worse, what little information I did come across was inaccurate, or inconsistent.
So, I made it my mission to try and rectify that, and find the truth about the man behind my surname.
After months of research that has involved leading me on wild goose chases, undoing crossed wires and often feeling like I am wading through mud, I finally can say I am closest ever to finding the true history of John Vincent.
I'm just sad that I didn't start this blog a year ago when I began my mission.
But, anyway, here is my first blog post, and I hope to keep updating as I find things out, I doubt anyone will read it, but I'll enjoy a little rant every so often! Enjoy!
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