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Hackstaple
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Re: Do you believe them?
« Reply #15 on: Monday 18 April 05 22:24 UTC (UK) »
I could go quite far back but most of the family records were lost in The Flood but it is widely accepted that the first Hack was a tree feller in the Garden of Eden. The few that remained perished in the Sack of Rome by Hackila the Hun and then, of course, came The Great Fire of London which was started by a Hack of that time - Dr. Johnson described him as a Pyromanihack, in fact. That is why the family crest is the fiery sky you see here. But we definitely go back a long way, us Hacks.
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Southern or Southan [Hereford , Monmouthshire & Glos], Jenkins, Meredith and Morgan [Monmouthshire and Glos.], Murrill, Damary, Damry, Ray, Lawrence [all Middx. & London], Nethway from Kenn or Yatton. Also Riley and Lyons in South Africa and Riley from St. Helena.
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Willow 4873
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Re: Do you believe them?
« Reply #16 on: Tuesday 19 April 05 13:17 UTC (UK) »
lmao!

Good one Hackstaple!

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Researching: Hilton, Simkiss, Mears & Jones (Wolverhampton) Bowkett (Ledbury & Wolverhampton) Knight (Gloucestershire) Nash (Ledbury) Beard (Worcester & Gloucestershire), Ralph (Wolverhampton & Bilston), Colley (Tibberton) Roberts (Wolverhampton & Bilston), Harris (Droitwich) Matthews (Wolverhampton & High Offley)
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Re: Do you believe them?
« Reply #17 on: Tuesday 19 April 05 14:13 UTC (UK) »
Why is that some people seem  interested as to "how far back have you gone".Surely the idea of this pastime,hobby,infatuation(call it what you will)is to LEARNabout your history---what did my ancestors do,where did they work,how did they live(and die),where did they live,what religion were they etc etc?.---apart from who were they.
Putting flesh on the bones is the difficult bit.After all,I'm not a genealogist by any stretch of the imagination but,without too much difficulty,I have got back to 1763.But what do I know about most of them;not a lot.
It's no good just name/date collecting and as for blue blood---who cares?.It won't get you anything.
I could argue I'm related to Adam but what follows thereafter is far too incestuous for my liking.......
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Humphreys; originating in Montgomeryshire and spreading out locally, nationally and internationally.
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Re: Do you believe them?
« Reply #18 on: Friday 29 April 05 03:34 UTC (UK) »
Hi all,just a line or three,really,really,hungry!!I go along with the knowing the history parties,and an earlier post admitted not knowing Eve had sisters.For shame!!Lilith was the most well known and the more "interesting,for me!!
            Gotta EAT!Goggy.
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Re: Do you believe them?
« Reply #19 on: Friday 29 April 05 12:30 UTC (UK) »
Most families should be traceable back to the start of Parish Registers (mid 16th early 17th centuries) some relatively easily others with more difficulty, which should take the researcher back to the late 15th century. Prior to that the difficulties start to arise as the records available thin out, relationships may be shown in wills. Clues to relationships arise in land records, tax rolls, court records etc. but there is often great difficulty in proving theories.
Even when making use of Heralds visitations often great leaps of faith are required to stretch a lineage back to the 11th century, if I remember correctly this has only been achieved by one family using the male line, though more have been able to using the female line as well.
I would therefore view all such pedigrees with suspicion.
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