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.
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
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
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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Thank you so much for putting this freely available online! I have finally found more information on my great grandfather John Nairn and so much more than I imagined! I would love to know where you found all of this information. I have struggled for years to find anything!
Kind Regards
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