Family Stories
Updated February 2008
Family Stories with special thanks to aunts, cousins and others, including some descended from ancestors' neighbours!
| The Wood family - 2 centuries of attorneys/solicitors Yorkshire, London & Melton Hall, Suffolk Searles (with related Syer family) and an elusive Seedall family of Preston, Lancs new pages with extensive revisions |
New - A
House Divided ? The Arrowsmith family of Kent and London now on a page of their own with their cousins from the Meager, Grant, Matson and March families, plus the case in Chancery involving them all |
New light on the
Oldham Family A prolific family full of surprises - new pages expanded May 5th 2008 with ever more puzzles - now in 5 parts Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 (England, Wales, South Africa &Australia) |
| Many pages are illustrated with photos of people or the places where they lived, from England & also Malta! | ||
Cousins |
Cardwell, Hull,
Shepherd & Strickland
- Lupton ancestors |
Strangers Some unidentified people - Whiteside-Armour family or cousins. Can you help? |
| The Lupton line Preston & Over-Wyre "From canals to railways" |
Templeton Interlude
a study of a village in Devon including George's a/c book 1846-1864 |
"Jackson shot a rabbit"
steward-cum-gamekeeper in Templeton, Devon |
| The Armour Family Blacksmiths and shipbuilders |
A Fleetwood Story Armour brothers and their boats The Mauna Loa comes home! |
.1. Near Miss! Albert and the Crimean War |
| The Whiteside Family 1st instalment |
Blacksmiths all the Gill family - Fylde & Fleetwood |
2. Port Out, Starboard Home Albert in India |
| The Kirkham family
'common ancestors' to 2 family lines! |
Burton Park - West Sussex. Background & photos, general interest. |
3. Mine Host! illustrated Innkeeper, fireman and omnibus proprietor |
| The Ball Family Lancaster and Fleetwood |
Emma and the Mason Family Jacksons in Slindon and Burton Park |
4. Albert's big 'send-off' (from 800 Woking people) Report from Woking newspapers of 1903 |
| Ball Family Wills | .The Oldham Family along with Wood |
Knaphill School (photo),
Woking historical interest |
| The Goodear Family of
the Fylde (or Goodier etc) - the link with the Billington family |
The Stockwell Family Bledlow and Chinnor |
'Escape' from Salonika 1918'
photo & details of WW1 soldiers at Mtarfa, Malta |
| Billington of Cottam Lancashire | Victorian Lambeth Social background to the Coffee Shop |
(1) William Cope (2) Henry George Cope (3) 'Uncle Harry' |
| Myerscough 5 generations Over Wyre linked to Whiteside line |
The Barnes family of Aylesbury, with photos |
Lambeth Coffee shop
Cope family & a hundred years of serving coffee.. |
| Myerscough Wills
of the 18th century including some full texts |
The Janes Family of 'Brighthelmstone'
another link to the Ricketts: 'Regency' Brighton? |
Frost Fair January
1814 William Cope crosses the Thames on foot |
| Cannon of Bramley Surrey with link to the Ricketts |
Happy Wanderers Ricketts family of Guildford and Brighton |
Great-Aunt Lizzie ( The Cope family & the Parnells A story of life above and below stairs 'Lady's maid' |
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