Family History

My great-grandfather Charles Thomas Lucas (CTL 1820-1895) is a pivotal figure in my family’s history. For he was able to make the leap from his modest origins as the son…

Astrology, historically reputed as serious science, has largely declined in modern regard. If anyone besides Oedipus ever had reason to bewail the slings and arrows of his outrageous fortune it…

In my last blog – Lucas Beginnings – I traced my Lucas family back to 1630 and introduced my direct ancestor James Lucas (1747-?) who presents something of a genealogical…

Do my Lucas family origins stretch all the way back to pre-Roman Italy? There is a theory that the surname Lucas originates from Lucania, a Greek colony occupying land between…

My family has an early connection to Oz in the person of Nathaniel Lucas, a cousin many generations removed who arrived at Botany Bay in January 1788 on the First…

My father’s 21st birthday party on 19th August 1908 was a splendid occasion at Warnham Court, the estate in Sussex owned by my grandfather, most notable for the astounding array…