Family History and Genealogy

Although I have been interested in learning about my family history and genealogy for many years, it wasn't until late 2002 that I started researching my family tree. I have been pleasantly surprised at how successful I have been in tracing my family tree to date.

Listed below are the surnames in my ancestral tree, back to my great-great-great-grandparents, the localities where they lived - all in England and Wales, and approximate dates. I would be pleased to hear from anyone researching these names in the localities listed, and in particular would be very pleased to hear from any distant (or near) cousins!

Follow this link to my family tree, published using some great open-source software called PhpGedView (PGV).  You can also browse my family tree in Ahnentafel format, produced using Legacy Family Tree.

Localities of Interest

• Gloucestershire: 
• Harescombe
• Stroud and Whiteshill
• Sapperton and Bisley
• Lancashire: 
• Furness area
• Oxfordshire: 
• The FOREST family of Burford
• Somerset: 
• Pill, Easton-in-Gordano, and Portbury
• Westmorland: 
• Whinfell
• Grayrigg
• Selside
• Kirkby Lonsdale
• Glamorgan: 
• Swansea

Surnames of Interest	Locality	Dates
ADAMS	Pill / Easton-in-Gordano, Somerset	1750-1900
ARNOLD (and variants ARUNDEL, ARNDELL)	Sapperton, Gloucestershire	1750-1900
ASHBURNER	Barrow in Furness area, Lancashire	1750-1850
BISHOP	Harescombe / Haresfield, Gloucestershire Whiteshill / Stroud, Gloucestershire	1700-1800 1800-1900
COOK	Hook Norton / Swinbrook / Burford, Oxfordshire	1750-1850
COOMBS	Pill / Portbury, Somerset	1750-1850
DENNISON	Furness area, Lancashire	1750-1850
DUBBER	Marston Maisey, Wiltshire	1750-1850
DULY (and DULEY/DEULEY)	Litlington / Eastbourne / Hastings, Sussex	1800-1900
EDMONDSON	Aldingham, Lancashire	1750-1850
FOREST and FORREST	Burford, Oxfordshire Thornton le Moors, Cheshire	1800-1900 1700-1800
GARDINER (and variants GARDNER, GARDENER)	Bisley, Gloucestershire	1750-1850
HASLAM (and variants HESLAM, HASLEM)	Barrow in Furness area, Lancashire	1750-1850
HODGES	Stroud, Gloucestershire	1750-1850
HUNTLEY	Trowbridge, Wiltshire	1750-1900
INGHAM	Lancaster, Lancashire Barrow in Furness area, Lancashire	1780-1850 1850-1900
KEENE	Stroud, Gloucestershire	1750-1850
METCALF(E) and MEDCALF(E)	Dent, Yorkshire Killington, Westmorland	1775-1825 1800-1900
OKEY (and variant OAKEY)	Stroud, Gloucestershire	1775-1825
OWENS	Swansea, Glamorgan	1780-1830
PORTER	Pill / Easton-in-Gordano, Somerset	1775-1825
REYNOLDS	Trowbridge, Wiltshire	1775-1825
ROBINSON	Whinfell / Grayrigg / Selside, Westmorland Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmorland	1700-1850 1850-date
ROWLES	Pill / Easton-in-Gordano / Portbury, Somerset	1750-1900
SMITH	Stroud, Gloucestershire	1800-1850
SMITH	Burford, Oxfordshire	1800-1850
THOMAS	Llandovery, Carmarthenshire Swansea, Glamorgan	1780-1820 1820-1900
THOMPSON	New Hutton / Grayrigg, Westmorland	1700-1850
TOWNSEND	Sapperton, Gloucestershire	1700-1800
WARRINER (and variant WARRENER)	New Hutton, Westmorland	1750-1820
WOOLLEY (and variants WOLLEY, WALLEY)	Mountnessing, Essex Hastings, Sussex Swansea, Glamorgan	1700-1830 1830-1900 1860-1900
WYATT	Stroud, Gloucestershire	1750-1850

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