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On
this page you will find some of the surnames and families
which I am researching. Please click on a link in the table
below for information about that family. To see my complete
family tree, please visit Rootsweb WorldConnect, where I have
posted two separate GEDCOM files. My own family tree can be
found here
and my husband's Gurney and Winn ancestors can be found here.
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If you
would like more information about any of these families, please
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Anderson
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I research my children's
ancestors as well as my own. Their Anderson ancestors were
fishermen in Broughty Ferry, near Dundee, in Scotland.
The picture on
the left shows fishing boats drawn up on the foreshore at
Broughty Ferry in 1893. Click on the picture to see a larger
image.
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Aves
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My
3x great-grandfather, William Aves, was born about 1787. He was a cheesemonger and grocer in Marylebone / St Pancras, London, and my 2x great-grandmother, Charlotte Aves, was born in Oxford Street in 1818. To see the information I have on this family, please click here. |
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Baldwin
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My
3x great-grandparents, John and Mary Ann Baldwin, lived at Milton
near Gravesend in Kent. John Baldwin was a tailor and Mary Ann
was a straw hat maker. They had 5 children baptized at the Ebenezer
Wesleyan Chapel in Milton between 1822 and 1836. Their names
appear in trade directories for Milton as late as 1847.
John and Mary Ann's
daughter, my 2x great- grandmother, Cecilia Baldwin, married
Frederick Thomas Rayman at St Leonard, Shoreditch, Middlesex
in 1854. To see more information about the Baldwin family,
please click here.
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Bentley
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My Bentley ancestors
came from Barnsley in the West Riding of Yorkshire, moving
to Horsforth, near Leeds, in the early 19th century.
In Horsforth they
established two soapmaking businesses. The soapworks founded
by Thomas Bentley (1838-1904) at Brookfoot Mills, Woodside,
continues to this day, as part of the Bradford based Stephenson
Group Limited, who have twice been recipients of the prestigious Queen's
Award for Enterprise. The Chairman and Managing Director,
Richard Bentley, is a direct descendant of Thomas Bentley
and my third cousin.
The picture to
the left is of my great-grandfather, Rev Joseph Bentley (1840-1903),
Thomas Bentley's brother, who was a Wesleyan Methodist minister.
Our earliest known
ancestor is John Bentley, who married Ann Utley at St Mary,
Barnsley on 4 November 1780. More
information about the Bentley family can be found here.
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Bissell
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I
am researching the Bissell family in Fordingbridge, Hampshire,
in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. I have very little
information on this family and would be grateful for any references
to Bissell in Fordingbridge or the surrounding area during this
period. The information I currently have on this family can
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Bluett
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The
Bluetts lived in the Holborn area of London in the early 19th
century. Thomas Bluett was a lithographic printer. His daughter,
Mary Ann Bluett, was born on 3 March 1839 in Little Pulteney
Street, Westminster. She married Julius Wilhelm Fritz, an immigrant
German tailor on 30 August 1858 at St Matthew's Chapel, Westminster.
The family name was also spelled Blewett and Blewitt. More information
about them can be found here. |
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Cates
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The
Cates family lived in East Lulworth, Dorset, from the 17th to
the 19th centuries. Their name was variously spelled Cate, Cates,
Kate, Kates, Keat, Keate, Keates and Keats. My earliest known
ancestor is William Keate, who married Alice Veale at East Lulworth
in 1641. More information about the family can be found here. |
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Clark
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My
Clark ancestors lived in the small town of Coupar Angus, Perthshire
from the 17th to the 19th centuries. They were brewers, vintners
and merchants and owned the estate of Princeland, Coupar Angus.
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Coles
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My Coles ancestors
were yeomen farmers in the parish of Cranborne, Dorset, during
the 18th century. In the early 19th century my branch of the
family moved a few miles to Fordingbridge, in Hampshire, where
they were millers. You can see a complete family tree here.
Descendants of
the family still live in the Fordingbridge area today, where
they run the removal firm of C Coles & Sons at Stuckton.
I was really pleased to be introduced to these cousins a couple
of years ago. One
of them, Steve Coles, is a part time fireman. You can see
his picture to the left and you can learn more about him on
the Fordingbridge fire station's website.
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Corley
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I
know very little about my Corley ancestry. Alice Corley married
James Tonge at
Manchester Cathedral
on 23 September 1811. She and her sister, Sarah, were the illegitimate
children of Kitty Corley. Alice and Sarah were baptised at Walton-on-the-Hill,
Lancashire on 5 December 1784. I would very much appreciate
any leads on this family. To view the details. please click
here.
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Davis
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There are many
clergymen among my Davis ancestors and they also married into
other clerical families.
The picture to
the left is of my great-grandfather, Rev Alban Edgar Brunskill
Davis (1852-1901) who ministered for some years in the Scottish
Episcopal Church before moving to Somerset, where he died
as Rector of Brympton d'Evercy.
Alban was the son
of Rev Frederick Davis, who began his career as a National
School master.
More information
about the Davis family can be found here.
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Dick
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I
have a particular interest in the family of Dick of Tullymet.
I am not actually descended from this family but they intermarried
with my Lowe ancestors over the years and they built Tullymet
House on land bought from the Lowes. I also believe it was due
to the influence of their Dick cousins that many of my Lowe
family made their careers in India in the 18th and 19th century.
To learn more about the Dicks, who are descended from the famous
Sir William Dick of Braid, please |
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Eaton
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I
have traced my Eaton ancestors back almost as far as the Civil War
in the tiny Bedfordshire village of Dean. My earliest Eaton ancestor was my 7x great-grandfather, William, who was a carpenter and first appeared in Dean in 1679. The next six generations of his male descendants were carpenters in Dean - a family business lasting over 200 years. You can find details of the many descendants of William Eaton here.
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Essex
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Mary
Essex married Roger Mew at Cranborne, Dorset on 8 October 1717.
There are many members of the Essex family in the Cranborne
parish registers but how is Mary connected to them? To view
all the information I have about her, please click here. |
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Flower
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Richard
Flower was a shepherd in the village of East Lulworth, Dorset,
in the 18th century. Find out more about his family here. |
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Fritz
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My 2x great-grandfather, Julius Wilhelm Fritz, came to London from Bahn, Pomerania (modern Banie in Poland) in 1857. He married Mary Ann Bluett in 1858 and they had 14 children, from whom a large number of people today are descended. Some branches of the family changed their surnames during the First World War because of anti-German prejudice. To find out more about the family, click here. |
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Gurney
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Gurney is my married
name. I have researched my husband's Gurney ancestors back
as far as the late 17th century in North Mymms, Hertfordshire.
From there the family moved to the Edmonton/Southgate area
of Middlesex in the late 18th Century. A complete Gurney family tree can be found here.
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Haliburton
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My
Haliburton ancestors came from the parish of Kettins in Angus,
Scotland. I have traced them back to James Haliburton of Easter
Keillor, born circa 1657, son of George Haliburton in Wester Keillor and Susanna Halden. These Haliburtons were almost certainly related to the family of Haliburton of Pitcur - the question is, how? To see more about my Haliburton ancestors, click here.. |
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Harvey
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Harvey
is another of the family names which I am researching in the
village of Cranborne, Dorset. My earliest known Harvey ancestor is John Harvey, who was baptising children in Cranborne in the 1720s and 30s. Details of John and his descendants can be found here. |
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Hay
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My
Hay ancestors lived in the parish of Coupar Angus, Perthshire, Scotland. My 6x great-grandfather, Charles Hay was a writer (solicitor). He married Jean Haliburton in Coupar Angus in 1720. Where did he come from? To view information on his many descendants, click here..
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Lowe
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My Lowe ancestors came from the parish of Logierait in Perthshire. For most of the 18th century they were lairds of the small estate of Chapelton in the barony of Tullymet, lands previously held by the Dukes of Atholl. In the early 19th century my 3x great-grandfather, Dr John Low(e), sold the family estate to Dr William Dick and moved to the town of Coupar Angus, where he practiced as a surgeon. The Lowes were a prominent family in Coupar Angus throughout the 19th century and, today, have descendants in the United States, Canada and New Zealand as well as the British Isles. To find out more, click here. |
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McCarthy
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John McCarthy was Find out more about his family here.
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Mew
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Munden
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Nippard
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Nippard
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Panther
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Rayman
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Snelling
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Street
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Taylor
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Tongue
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Toop
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Truelove
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Utley
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Wiles
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Winn
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