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Sylviaann
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I have one line back to 1300. It was in Jersey, Channel Islands where paperwork is good even though it is in French. I didn't do it as you have to live there but it is all in a book produced by a member of the family who actually lives on the Island. He actually gives the proof in the book "The de Gruchy's of Jersey"
I have done one line back to 1670 and possibly 100 years before. I did this by looking at a film of the Parish register and working out the jigsaw puzzle. 1670 was quite easy in that area.
With my fathers family I am stuck in 1812.
I would not trust any tree found on the net. A lot of them are guesses. I take notes and check out the details if possible.
Sylviaann
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Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukNorfolk: Gooch, Loveday, Lake, Betts Suffolk: Gooch, Crosby, Turner Hampshire: Laws, Burrows Kent: Beer Jersey: Barette, de Gruchy East London: Middleton, Gower, O'Farrell, Smith, Weston |
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stoney
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...so many "trees" - what's a dog to do!
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We have a definite link back to 1651 (all documented through parish registers etc.), and a few lines back to the early and middle 1700's.
I think it's exceptional to get back in to the 1500's and before that - it seems to me only persons of "influence" or wealth would be significantly recorded, and my lot were mainly cattle rustlers and sheep thieves (Border Reivers) so no chance for them ! (except perhaps in the county assize records!) 
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Beattie, Beveridge, Carson, Davidson, Hounam, Johnston, Purdon, Rae, Stevenson, - Scotland. Brown, Bulman, Cooke, Harding, Meyers, Osborne, Routledge - England
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Lydart
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If you are lucky enough to find a 'gateway' ancestor, i.e. one who had links in some way with aristocracy, then you are able to whizz right back ...
Did you see the Matthew Pinsent WDYTYA programme ? His tree went back to Adam and Eve, and even God !!
I've got a friend who suddenly got the link she had hoped for ... one of her ancestors had been a naughty girl with the Lord of the Manor, produced a child ... and thus the blood line with aristocracy was established !
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Dorset: Trowbridge, Williams, Sturney, Prince ... and more Cornwall: Pomeroy Somerset: Clark(e) Durham: Law Lancashire: Stubbs, Walmesley "Census information is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk" |
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drifter
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Did you see the Matthew Pinsent WDYTYA programme ? His tree went back to Adam and Eve, and even God !!
Do i take it then that i must be related to Mathew Pinsent too!
Keeeeep searching
Drifter
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Smith, Pearce, Flew, Comben, Stone, Scriven, Hind, family's Portland Limm, Vickery, Wyke Regis & Beminster, Abboutsbury, Dorset England
KEEEEEP SEARCHING !
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Lydart
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(Shhh ... he's a RootsChat member !)
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Dorset: Trowbridge, Williams, Sturney, Prince ... and more Cornwall: Pomeroy Somerset: Clark(e) Durham: Law Lancashire: Stubbs, Walmesley "Census information is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk" |
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