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Topic: How far back have you gone? (Read 542 times)
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Nick29
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Probably my g.g.g.g.g.g.g.g. grandfather William Wode (Wood) b. 1515 in Therfield Hertfordshire. Found him through parish records. Sometimes you strike lucky with an established family who don't move around a lot 
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« Last Edit: Friday 02 October 09 12:51 UTC (UK) by Nick29 »
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Best Wishes, Nick. Research interests: Field - Luton & Islington Hole - Somerset, Suffolk & Surrey Farnish, Parker, Cattermole, Last, Wasp, Church - Suffolk Lewin/Lowin/Lowen - Hertfordhire Martin - Eltham & Greenwich, Kent (London) Stead - Greenwich, London (Kent) & Maidstone Wood - Hertfordshire Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Ann12
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Mum - third on the left
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I have gone back to 1699 with one side, I found a marriage between Paul Kentish and Frances Cox on the Kent Ark site - it took hours of searching but was worth it as I also found out he was born in Middx and was a sailor.
Anna
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uknames: Josolyne - Essex & Herts, Wainwright - Hamps & London, Kentish - Rotherhithe, London & Kent, Herbert - Seaford, Sussex - London & Glous. |
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msallen
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Posts: 88
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Way back into the first millenium, which is only practically achievable by connecting to royalty (which we are all likely to be descended from somehow - I'm certainly nothing special).
Parish records back through various framework knitters, weavers, husbandmen etc to Robert Heathcote, the son of cobbler, who was born 1675.
He married the youngest daughter (and orphan), of a local minor landowner Raphael Bradbury. This mismatch almost certainly achieved because a relation of his stepfather mas married to her elder sister, whom she lived with after her parents' deaths.
Combination of parish records and wills back to Raphael's gr gr grandfather George, born c1518, who married Anne Gilbert.
Herald's visitation, supported by a deeds, church monuments etc back to her great grandfather Robert, born before 1450
Church monument and herald's visitation to his father in law John Statham, born circa 1405.
Dispute over inheritence at TNA to his maternal grandfather Richard Cornwall, and then IPMs, supported by copious entries in the rolls (close, patent, fine etc) back to his gr gr gr grandfather Richard earl of Cornwall, second son of King John.
Then once you hit royalty, you can't fail but get back to pre-conquest times - just how far back you claim depends on how much you believe certain ancient documents - for example king Alfred's biography, written contemporary to his reign (I can't just remember the name of the chronicler off the top of my head) gives Alfred's lineage, but how many generations you trust it for is debatable - it claims to give it all the way back to Adam and Eve !
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Too many to list! Presently particularly interested in ALLEN, HODGKINSON, FLINT, SWINDELL, SHELDON, BINGHAM, JACKSON - all in Derbyshire
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Sylviaann
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Isabella Barette
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On my mother's side I have a baptism in 1557 naming the father as William the younger. So about 1507. Got it all from parish registers searched at my local LDS centre.
My fathers side I am only back to 1817. They have a common name and were in London so could have come from any where.
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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Gensleuth
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Where are they?
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Pat. Tree 1610
Mat. Tree 1835
Wife
Pat. Tree 1605
Mat. Tree 1788
I have a couple of connected trees [marriages] one goes back to 1545, the other back to 1568
The maternal tree is Irish and after searching for about 5 years, I have abandoned it for a while.
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GAUNT N Staffordshire,GAUNT Manchester.GUY,Shropshire, BARTLEY,Salford, Lancs, NEVILLE,Salford. PHILLIPS,Staffs, MAYER,Staffs,COSSAR,Berwick, E and Mid Lothian and Argyll. HIGGINS,Glasgowand Dunoon,Argyll.GALLAGHER,Argyll,IRISH,Herts.
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Annie65115
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I guess I've been very lucky on my mum's side - lots of people came from lots of different small villages, lots of the PRs are available and no-one was called Smith!
My earliest confirmed by myself through PR's, about 1640.
IGI has extracted records for another of my maternal lines to 1540 but the relevant fiche had gone walkabout when I went to the Grantham records office to check so I haven't seen this for myself yet!
I have copies of 2 wills written by ancestors born in the mid - late 1600's; they are fascinating, once you get through the scrawl!
On my dad's side I have only got back to about 1800. A combination of commoner names, more misspellings, people living in towns and sailors who could have come from and gone anywhere continue to fox me.
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Bradbury (Sedgeley, Bilston, Warrington)
Cooper (Sedgeley, Bilston)
Dyer (Stathern, Leic, Notts, Yorks)
Kilner (Leic)
Greenfield (Liverpool)
Holyland (Leic)
Pryce/Price (Welshpool, Liverpool)
Tidd (Grantham, Notts)
Hallam (Screveton)
Partrick (Vera and George, Leicester)
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Lydart
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Great Granny Williams, the Dorset button maker
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My fathers maternal line goes to 1550-ish, but I myself havent done all of that ... I was lucky it was an unusual surname with a one-name study already done !
I have got a tenuous link to Catherine Howard, which would push it further back, (she of the 'divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, BEHEADED, survived !!) But I havent got time to go into it thoroughly, so at the moment, don't believe it !
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Dorset/Wilts/Hants: Trowbridge, Williams, Sturney, Prince, Foyle, Fripp, Triggle ... and more C'wall/Devon/CANADA (The Cariboo, B.C.): Pomeroy Som'set: Clark(e) Durham: Law London: Poplett Lancs/Cheshire/CANADA (B.C.): Stubbs, Walmesley WRITE LETTERS FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS TO TREASURE ... EMAILS DISAPPEAR FOREVER ! Census information Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Mike Baldock
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1537 - birth of Sir Robert Bell
he married a Dorothy Beaupre who has a lineage going back way further but I've not looked at it or anything yet cos other folks have done it all which makes it a bit boring!
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) I will definitely be trying hard to track back with all of them including the Irish and I just know they are waiting to give me trouble.