Genealogy

I have been interested in family history since I was about 12, and used to badger my nan for stories of when she was young. Since then I have spent many happy hours (and many frustrated ones!) digging around in a variety of record offices around the country.  Now, with so much genealogy data online, I am making many more discoveries, and gradually updating what I have on here.  I have made connections to the gentry class of Norfolk and Suffolk, which has opened many new doors, and I have discovered the joys and frustrations of wills and published pedigrees, and extended a toe into the medieval period.

If you want to contact me please mail famhist@nospam.highfields1.plus.com – remove nospam. from the address

Please note that all data comes from the relevant parish register unless otherwise stated, and will normally be a baptism unless indicated otherwise.

Addington

Milton Malsor Nothamptonshire 1700’s

Agitt Aggit Agett

Leicestershire 1800’s

Annatts

Kintbury, Berkshire 1800’s

Archer

Stowmarket area of Suffolk 1800’s

Baines

North-West Essex  (Broxted and Wimbish) 1700’s

Baker

North-West Essex (Broxted and Stansted) 1700’s

Balham Balaam

Stowmarket Suffolk 1700’s

Barnard

Suffolk 1700’s, 1800’s, 1900’s

Barnard

Stowmarket, Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk 1800’s and Rockland area Norfolk 1700’s

Barret

Courteenhale Northamptonshire 1700’s

Barry

London 1800’s – married to Goodchild and Worham family

Barwell

Leicestershire 1800’s

Bass

South Suffolk 1700’s

Bateman

Southwark early 1800’s

Bennett

Woburn, Bedford, South Bedfordshire, 1700’s and 1800’s

Berends

Rijssen, Overijssel, Netherlands 1800’s

Blackwell

somewhere near Sawbrdigeworth East Hertfordshire  1800’s – possibly connected to Henham Essex

Bland

South Northamptonshire 1700’s

Bloice Bloyce Bloise Blosse

Great Bromley, Suffolk/Essex border, 1600’s, 1700’s

Bode

of German origin, from somewhere in Hannovaria. Came to London with three brothers to be waiters in the 1860’s.

Bowell

North-East Essex (Great Bromley ) 1700’s, 1800’s

Bowle

Thornham Magna Suffolk 1700’s

Boyton Boiton

North-West Essex (Henham, Ugly, Clavering, Wicken Bohunt) 1700’s

Brackett

London 1700’s

Bravery

Warnham and Rusper, Sussex 1600’s, 1700’s, Capel and Dorking Surrey,1700’s London 1800’s

Buckenham

Debenham Suffolk 1700’s

Busby

Long Coombe, Oxfordshire 1800’s

Camplin

Thornham Magna, Suffolk 1700’s

Cant

North-East Essex (West Bergholt, Aldham ) 1800’s

Caroline

Lambeth and Southwark  early 1800’s

Cheverton

earliest trace is a marriage in 1800, in Southwark, Surrey. They seem to have been a family of hat makers. Also lived in Lambeth, and moved to Enfield in 1900’s

Childs

Portsmouth 1700’s and 1800’s

Church

North-West Essex (Great Easton) 1600’s, 1700’s

Church

Milton Malsor Northamtonshire 1700’s

Church

Greenham, Berkshire 1700’s

Clark

Great Bromley Essex

Clark Clarke

Blisworth, Northamptonshire 1700’s

Clover

Haybridge, Maldon, Writtle Essex early 1800’s and then to London (Battersea,  St Luke, St George, Bow) via Southampton

Cox

Tilehurst, Berkshire 1800’s

Cripps

Cranfield, Hockliffe,  Dunstable, Bedfordshire/Buckinghamshire 1600’s, 1700’s, 1800’s, then moved to Shoreditch, London in 1800’s

Curtis

from Bishop Stortford, Herts, and before that across the border in North West Essex (Widdington, Ugly, Birchanger) .  The family were market gardeners, game keepers and agricultural workers. Ealiest link probably a marriage in 1694.

Davis

Burbage and Ogbourne St George, Wiltshire 1700’s,  Reading, Berkshire and South Oxfordshire 1800’s

Darkins

Norfolk/Suffolk border 1700’s, 1800’s

De Heer

Amsterdam, Montfoort (Utrecht), Werkendam ( Noord Brabant), Netherlands, 1700’s

Dennis

Kintbury, Berkshire 1800’s

Driscoll

originally from Cork  Ireland, moved to London in the 1840’s – probably famine escapees.

Dunn

Lichfield Staffordshire 1700’s and 1800’s

Egbrink

Amsterdam 1700’s, 1800’s

Ekkel

from Uelzen, Germany, a small village on the Dutch border, where the family were famers the early 1800’s. My great-great-grandfather moved to Amsterdam, and then to London in the 1890’s.

Ellis

Southwark, Surrey 1800’s

Elmer Elmore Elmar Elmir Elmin Elmyn Aylmer

(Boxted) Essex/Suffolk (Boxford) border 1600’s, 1700’s 1800’s

Everitt

Wennington Essex

Engbers

Neuenhaus, Uelsen, Germany 1800’s

Fowler

London 1700’s

Fox

Banham Norfolk 1700’s

Francis

Stowmarket area 1800’s

Frank

Cranfield, Bedfordshire 1600’s 1700’s

Galpin

originate in Dorset, migrated via Somerst to Oxford in 1800s.

Gardener

Stowmarket area 1800’s

Garnham

Cotton and Bacton Suffolk 1700’s

Garvey

originally from Ireland, moved to London before 1861.

Gascoyne

Bedford 1700’s

Gayton

Woburn, Bedfordshire 1800’s

Gerritsen

Neuenhaus, Germany 1800’s

Gilby

south Northamptonshire 1700’s

Gladwin

Chelmsford, Writtle 1700’s and early 1800’s

Godbold

East Anglia in 1600’s and 1700’s

Godfrey

Manuden Essex early 1800’s

Gooch

Woodton 1700’s , Holt and Corpusty Noroflk  1800’s

Goodchild

London 1800’s

Gregory

Spitalfields/Shoreditch London 1800’s

Hall

Stanford Rivers Essex

Harold

Originally from East Harling, Norfolk and Thrandeston, Suffolk (where the name was also spelt Harrold and Hurrell) where the family were shoemakers and agricultural workers. They moved into the Hoxton area of London in the 1830’s, where they stayed for a hundred years, until my great grandfather (who was a glass beveller) moved to Edmonton.

Hayden Haydon

Ilford, South-West Essex 1800’s

Hendriks

Elburg, Netherlands, 1700’s

Hilliard

Burbage, Wiltshire 1700’s

Holden

Norfolk/Suffolk border 1700’s

Holloway

Shoreditch London 1700, 1800’s

Howell

Ilford, Barking Essex

Huddible

North-West Essex (Widdington, Manuden) 1600’s

Hurford

London early 1800’s, possibly from Bridgwater Somerset

Jane

London, Southwark 1800’s

Joceline

South Suffolk 1700’s

Kelly

North West Essex (Hatfield Broad Oak, Matching) 1700’s

King

Shoreditch 1800’s

King

Holt Norfolk and Titchfield Hampshire 1800’s

Kirkham

North-West Essex (Takeley, Great Dunmow) 1700’s, 1800’s

Knight

Bedford 1700’s

Knyvett

Gentry based in south Norfolk 1500’s 1600’s

Lachair

Amsterdam 1600’s and 1700’s, originally from La Haye, Normandy in 1500’s

Lee

Barking, Ilford Essex

Ligtenberg

Lingen, Germany 1600’s, 1700’s, Amsterdam 1700’s

London

Gentry family living in south Norfolk in the 1550 and 1600s

Luker

Originally from Reading and rural Berkshire, where the family were agricultural workers. My great grandfather moved into central London in the early part of this century.

Manning

Bedford 1700’s

Mason

Shoreditch, London 1700’s, 1800’s

Mathew

Romford South-West Essex 1800’s

Matthews

Takeley, Hatfield Broad Oak and Great Easton, West Essex, 1700’s

Militie

Elburg, Netherlands, 1800’s

Miller

Stansted and Broxted, North-West Essex, 1700’s

Miller

Cotton Suffolk 1700’s

Minter

Boxted North-East Essex 1700’s

Mynard

Milton Malsor, Northamptonshire 1700’s

Nairn

originally from Wigtownshire in southwest Scotland, moved to Blisworth Northamptonshire in the 1840’s, where Peter Nairn was the chief engineer at the pumping station, where the railway met the Grand Union Canal.

Newman

Burbage, Wiltshire 1700’s.

Offord

central Suffolk 1700’s

Osborn Osben

Dedham North-East Essex 1800’s

Ouzman

Romford Essex

Pacey

from Blisworth, in Northamptonshire, where there were five generations of shoemakers.

Page

Bedford, 1700’s

Pannekoek

Amsterdam, 1700’s, Longelen Netherlands, 1700’s

Park

Cranfield, Bedfordshire, 1700’s

Partridge

Cranfield, Tilsworth Bedfordshire 1600’s 1700’s

Pearl

Buxhall Suffolk 1700’s

Peart

Hockliffe, Bedfordshire 1800’s

Peppiatt

St Pancras, London, 1800’s

Pilley

North-West Essex (Matching) 1700’s

Poulter

Takeley, North-West Essex, 1700’s

Porter

Stanford Rivers,Ilford Essex

Quail

Leamington and Manchester 1800’s, originally from Northern Ireland

Radley Ratley

Great Easton, North-West Essex, 1700’s

Rastrick

Morpeth 1700’s and Portsmouth 1800’s

Ratley Radley

Birchanger and Hallingbury, North-West Essex, 1800’s

Reed

Wicken Bohunt, North-West Essex, 1700’s

Reinders

Hardenberg, Overijssel, Netherlands 1800’s

Rice

Aldham, Horkesley Essex

Rogers

Shoreditch, 1700’s

Rose

Dorking Surrey, 1600’s 1700’s

Rouse

Essex/Suffolk border 1700’s

Rushbrook Rosbrooke Rosbrook

South Suffolk 1700’s

van Ruissen

Amsterdam and Nijkerk, Holland, 1800’s

Satchwell

Bubbenhall Warwickshire 1700’s

Schievink

Uelsen and Neuenhaus, Germany, 1800’s

Searle

Sudbury area, Essex Suffolk border 1900’s, Devon, and Quorndon, Leicesteshire, 1800’s

Shephard

Southwark, Surrey 1880’s, Bromley, Kent 1700’s

Sheppard Shepherd

Barking Essex

Skingle

Thaxted, Dunmow, Takeley, North-West Essex, 1700’s and 1800’s

Snell

Stowmarket area, Suffolk, 1800’s

Squire

Waveney Valley, South Norfolk and North Suffolk, 1700’s

Stebbing Stubbing

Ugley, Debden,  North-West Essex, 1700’s

Styles

Thrandeston, Suffolk,1700’s

Syday

South Suffolk, 1700’s

Taylor

Ilford, Barking, South-West Essex, 1800’s

Tussing

Amsterdam, 1600’s and 1700’s

Thurston

Hoxne, Suffolk 1500’s and 1600’s

Wadley Wardley Vodley

Great Bentley,Great Bromley, Ardleigh, Dedham Tendring area, East Essex, 1800’s

Walker

Henham, North-West Essex, 1700’s

Warner

Ardleigh and Great Bromley North East Essex, 1700’s and 1800s

Whale

Lambeth, 1800’s

Willis

Barking, Ilford South-West Essex, 1800’s

ten Winke

Neuenhaus, Germany, 1600’s

Wisby

Great Horkesley Essex

Wood

Stanford Rivers Essex

Woolmer

Stanford Rivers Essex Worham – London, 1800’s

Worham

London 1700’s and 1800’s

Wynants

Amsterdam, 1700’s

Wythe

From Brockdish on the Norfolk Suffolk border 1500 and 1600s

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