Ancestors

June 3^rd 2006 summary tables of ancestors of Jean Norman  & Arthur Norman.

Ancestors

28 July 2008 uploaded full tree of all persons connected to me in my database at World Connect   Living persons have been automatically filtered out.                             

Bailey

The Bailey family of Bristol, Newark, Stafford, and Derby.

Baldwin

USA Mormon Emigrations of the , the Baldwin Family of Stratford & Birmingham.

Baughan

Our Convict’s Grandfather Daniel Baughan of ARMSCOT in Tredington Parish – keeping Common Field  “Fieldsman” account of 1822/23/24

Baughan

Western Australian Convict Daniel Baughan:

·         SHORTENED summary of Baughan story.

·         life and crime in Tredington, Worcestershire, England

·         imprisonment in Millbank and the Hulk “Justitia”

·         transportation on the Convict ship “Minden” – construction, route, conditions etc.

·         life in Western Australia in Gingin, Chittering, Geranldton, Sand Springs and Kockatea

·         Family and descendants – Pollard, Jecks, MacGregor – in Western Australia.

The Convict ship “Minden “ and it’s voyage from London to Western Australia 1851

·         Maps of the sailing route of the Minden – London to Western Australia

·         Complete alphabetical list of all Crew, Pensioners and Convicts.

o        Detailed List of the 302 Convicts and their  Offences

o        Detailed List of the 302 Convicts and their  Descriptions

o        Detailed List of the 51 Crew members

o        Detailed List of the 115  “pensioner guards” and their families

o        Detailed List of the 55 persons on the Surgeon’s Sicklist

·         Diary of a “pensioner” guard on board – John Gorman.

·         Map showing UK distribution of places of Conviction of Minden Convicts.

Berry

Berry Family of Honington, Darlingscott Hill in Tredington Parish, Worcestershire – now in Warwickshire.

·         Edwin Berry’s fragmentary Account book of Darlingscott Hill in 1866: complete page images, with a transcription and analysis.

·         John Henry Berry’s full Account book of Darlingscott Hill 1896: complete page images, with a transcription (analysis coming!)

·         John Henry Berry’s full Account book of Darlingscott Hill 1898: complete page images, (transcription and analysis coming!)

·         PowerPoint photographs : Berry Barlow family of Darlingscott and Berry Family of Worcester

·         Draft full notes on the family History

File on ELMES OF LACOCK WILTS and BEECHEY OF BOURTON ON THE HILL & BLOCKLEY. Although not directly related to the Author, they are Ancestors of an Aunt who married into the Berry Family.

Booth

Notes on family of Joseph Booth. Born Marston, resident of Leicester.

Cotterill

The Cottrill Family of Droitwich and Worcester

Daw

August 2006 Draft notes on the Daw family of Snettisham and Ringstead in Norfolk.

Dyer

Draft notes on the Dyer family of Tredington and Darlingscott. HUGE file – trying to shrink it!

Fearn

Notes on George Fearn and descendants. Born 1811 Hinckley, lived Leicester and died Derby

Fudger

22/10/06 New updated working document on Fudger Family of Warndon, Trotshill, Worcester. Each page covers one person (presently about 80) and the whole document is 2MB in size. It is being expanded with the addition of Census, Parish  Register and free BMD site material from the document below.

22/10/06 New Excel spreadsheet trying to sort out Fudgers of Worcester from different sources, and to bring them coherently together. Eventually all the material in this document will end up in the above document – it is only partially there at present. It presently has extracts from Worcester Census 1841 to 1871, extracts from the NBI, and Fudger IGI for Worcester parishes of St Andrew, All Saints, St Helen, St Clement, St Martin and the Free BMD site. It also has all these sources sorted alphabetically by in a central FUDGER name index.

Gill

Draft notes on the Gill family of Blockley.

Handy   

USA Mormon Emigrations of the: Handy Family of Ilmington/Alveston/Idaho

Handy

Draft documents about Handy family of Ilmington before 1798

Draft documents about Handy family of Ilmington after 1798

Handy

The Cotswold Shepherd

·         “Shepherd Handy” photographs and text.

·         ZIPPED MP3 (4.7MEG) file of Shepherd Handy’s Broadcasts to the British Empire at Christmas 1934 and 1939.  (Their size means it is best to download the Broadcasts to your machine and play the MP3 files directly from there.)

Hartwell

The Hartwell Family of Chipping Campden and Walsall.

Ilmington Index

Ilmington Village Sources from my copied notes and wholesale Internet pinching : (I will remove on request if the owner of the original information contacts me.)

·         DRAFT Name Index for Ilmington using all the sources below. 1588 – present  (9,400 entries to date)

·         1588 onwards - complete IGI and NBI listings for the village.

·         1639 Kineton Hundred Overseers Account  + bapt info  (Warwick University original transcript)

·         1666 Hearth Tax with some baptismal information added where appropriate. Warwick Record Office.

·         1676 Dissenters list with some baptismal information where appropriate. Warwick Record Office.

·         1841 Census – adapted from  Hunimex Free Census transcriptions

·         1851 Census  – based on Mormon Worcs, Devon and Norfolk listings with additions by Author.

·         1891 Census – adapted from Hunimex Free Census transcriptions.

·         Monumental Inscriptions – adapted from Hunimex BMSGH website. The code numbers refer to entries in the Microfiche sold by the BMSGH linked through the document.

Norman

Draft Norman Family notes – George and Sarah Norman of Worcester. (possibly originally from Salwarpe)

Draft Norman Family notes – Alfred Norman of Worcester

Draft Norman Family notes – Alfred George Norman and descendants

Draft Norman Family notes – other descendants of George and Sarah

Sier

Bristol and Worcester

Skaisbrook

Basic notes on Skaisbrook Scaresbrook Scaisbrook family of Tredington

Smith

Draft notes on the Romany Smith descendants of Thomas Smith, Vagrant of North Marston in the 1740s. His son, Jasper, settled around Banbury and the following children were born in a great nomadic swathe around Banbury in the 1770s-1800s.

If you want to find out if your Smith might be a member of this family, then click here for a name index to all those mentioned in the documents below. Follow your Smith ancestry up through the index charts to the relevant main ancestor listed below – and look in the relevant document.

These newly edited documents have a structure as follows. The title page shows ho each person is descended from Thomas Smith. One further indentation to the right is another generation of descent.

NEWLY EDITED Anslow Smith and descendants (focusing on Tysoe.)

NEWLY EDITED Thomas Smith and descendants (focusing on Headington Quarry.)

NEWLY EDITED Keziah Smith and descendants (Mrs. Keziah Nichols of Hook Norton – USA links)

NEWLY EDITED Lucretia Smith and descendants (family focusing on Tysoe and Ilmington)

NEWLY EDITED Arnold Smith and descendants (family focus Horley &  USA links)

These following documents are still in traditional narrative format

Thomas and Jasper Smith of North Marston (Origin of family & grid explaining relationships)

Comfort Smith and descendants

Separate account of Lucretia’s daughter Treezy’s family (author’s ancestors)

Jasper Smith and descendants

Hercules Smith and descendants (family focusing Banbury, Tadmarton & South Newington)

Honour Smith and descendants

Wisdom Smith and descendants

Japeth Smith and descendants

Harriett Smith and descendants

Mary Ann Smith and descendants

Smiths of Tysoe Village Index

NEW Name Index for ALL Smiths of Tysoe, from census 1841, 51, 61, 71, 81, 91 and IGI Baptism/Marriage files. Some burials transcribed by John and Rita Lumsden. Entries are arranged by pedigree relationships. Those beginning with “?” are not obviously related to Thomas Smith of Long Marston, those in red are shown in descent from him, and related to the author. Follow each person’s entry in date order.

Tales

Beginning of a collection of short sections – readable length with a good story.  Sheep stealing in 1847. Murder of Kalabergo, Hercules and the stray horses, Hercules and the stolen fiddle, an early train fatality, a one family crime wave.

Tredington  Parish Index

Alphabetical Name index for Tredington Parish

These sources have been included in the above Index:

• Tredington Parliamentary returns of property in 17^th century (HWRO BA 263b 54)    
• 1851 Census return                                                                                                          
• 1851 Tredington Rate book                                                                                             
• Random PR transcripts by the Author                                                                           
• IGI Tredington 1754-1838 and 1877-1895                                                                     
• NBI Tredington Burials                                                                                                   
• Vital Records      
• 1878 Tredington Enclosure
• 1847 Tredington Enclosure
  1847 Darlingscott Tithe return (Part)                                                                              

These sources have not yet been included in the above Index and awaiting upload:  Darlingscott Enclosure                                                                                                   1841 Census return  1891 Census return                                                                                                          

My webpage of teaching material for Beaumont Leys School in Leicester.

My webpage about the History of De Aston School, Market Rasen, in Lincolnshire.

My friend Jeff Jones’ webpage (please visit it – his counter is pathetically low !)

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