The next stop was Redmile where my gg grandfather, Frank Dunsmore was born in 1832, Here is the very font he was baptized at. We bought some herbs and flowers that were for sale outside the church door, leaving our coins in the slot inside the church.
At Bottesford we crossed this ford to go to the cottages where my g uncle Herbert Dunsmore lived. We also found the place where his sister, my g grandmother, and the rest of his family lived. Which was the same group of houses that her future husband, Dick Huskinson, lived in.
Our last stop was Orston, where Dick Huskinson was born and baptized in 1863. And my gg grandfather, William Huskinson before him in 1839. Orston church was delightful, with a drum that had been played in the Battle of Waterloo, fragments of medieval wall paintings and a pencil sundial on an exterior wall.
We drove home through some wonderful scenery - the cornfields are ready to be harvested at any time, and the fields are golden. Belvoir Castle appeared round every bend and I have a much stronger sense of how all the Huskinsons and Dunsmores fit together. It was a lovely day out.
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