About
Learning to make real Chocolat Chaud aboard Tempus Fugit in Gruissan, France.
My name is Tony Dorcey and these pages contain drafts of a multi-part exploration of my life so far and what I am learning about the story of my ancestors. It is a work in progress and intended to be read by family and friends. If you find that you do not have the current password to open any of these pages please contact me: tony.dorcey@gmail.com
From Laundry Boy To Professor Emeritus provides a prospectus for this project, written when it was started in 2013. Click on each of the titles in the header menu above to read introductions, see their table of contents and access each section – Ancestors, Letters to Ancestors. The pages listed below each section heading provide updates on research and findings so far. There is also a full table of the present contents with links in the right-hand margin.
My wife, Plu, and I are working at the same time on the story of her ancestors. While my story is set in England and Ireland and has so far traced the Dorcey and Pride branches over the last two hundred years, her’s begins in Poland almost 150 years ago. It follows the saga of the Plucinskis, Michalskis and Sielickis in Poland, Russia, Palestine, North Africa, Italy and England. The story of our own lives, after growing up and marrying in Cambridge, England has unfolded since 1971 in Vancouver, Canada.
The draft materials are exploratory and designed to be read by interested members of our family and friends. The story of Plu’s ancestors is being drafted elsewhere and will be linked to this site shortly. Writing about our own story in England and Canada has begun but is largely a future project to be advanced when we understand better that of our parents and ancestors.
If you want to learn more about this ancestry project and Plu and I then first read From Laundry Boy to Professor Emeritus.
To learn more about our lives while this web site is under development please go to one of my web sites built before I retired. There you will find information on my 40-year career as a pracademic at the University of British Columbia where I worked until retiring in 2012, as well as stories and pictures from the adventures of Plu and I on our two boats Carpe Diem and Tempus Fugit, and photos of Plu’s Quiltscapes from a recent exhibition in Vancouver.
On the bow of Tempus Fugit, moored in Gruissan, France.