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.
Adkins
Stoneleigh area of Warwickshire 1600s 1700s
Aggit
Various spellings- Leicestershire 1800’s
Annatts
Kintbury, Berkshire 1800’s
Archer
Badley and Stowmarket area of Suffolk 1800’s
Ashford
Woodbridge and central north Suffolk 1800’s
Baines
North-West Essex (Broxted and Wimbish) 1700’s
Baker
North-West Essex (Broxted and Stansted) 1700’s
Baker Suffolk
South Suffolk, Polstead and Stoke by Nayland 1600s, 1700s
Balham
Stowmarket Suffolk 1600s 1700s
Barnard
Stowmarket, Suffolk 1700’s, 1800’s, 1900’s
Barnard
Stowmarket, Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk 1800’s and Rockland area Norfolk 1700’s
Barnett
Bradfield and Pangbourne in Berkshire, 1700s
Barsham
from the Holborn area of London in the second half of the 1600s
Barret
Courteenhale Northamptonshire 1700’s
Barry
London 1800’s – married to Goodchild and Worham family
Barwell
Leicestershire 1800’s
Basley
Tilehurst Berkshire 1600’s and 1700’s
Bass
South Suffolk 1700’s
Bateman
Southwark early 1800’s
Bearaway
Fressingfield 1700s
Beare
Little Waldingfield and Lavenham, Suffolk, 1600s and 1700’s
Bennett
Woburn, Bedford, South Bedfordshire, 1700’s and 1800’s
Berends
Rijssen, Overijssel, Netherlands 1800s
Binks
Little Bentley, Essex 1700s
Blackwell
somewhere near Sawbridgeworth East Hertfordshire 1800s – possibly connected to Henham Essex
Bland
South Northamptonshire 1700s
Bloyce Bloyce Bloise Blosse
Suffolk/Essex border, 1600s, 1700s
Bode
of German origin, from somewhere in Hannovaria. Supposed to have come to London with three brothers to be waiters in the 1860s.
Bowell
North-East Essex (Great Bromley ) 1700s, 1800s
Bowle
Thornham Magna Suffolk 1700s
Boyton Boiton
North-West Essex (Henham, Ugly, Clavering, Wicken Bohunt) 1700s
Brackett
London 1700’s, Sudbury Suffolk 1700s
Brackett
Watton and Carbrooke, Central Norfolk 1600s and 1700s
Bravery
Coldwaltham, Warnham and Rusper, Sussex 1600’s, 1700’s, Capel and Dorking Surrey, 1700’s London and Brighton 1800’s
Bridges
Norfolk Suffolk border in 1700s, Redgrave and East Harling
Buckenham
Debenham Suffolk 1700s
Busby
Long Coombe, Oxfordshire 1800s
Camplin
Thornham Magna, Suffolk 1700s
Cant
North-East Essex (West Bergholt, Aldham ) 1700s and 1800s. Other Cants in the Colchester area in the 1800s
Caroline
Lambeth and Southwark early 1800’s
Cheverton
The family originated in the Isle of Wight, moved to Westminster in the mid 1700s, then to Southwark, Surrey. In the 1800s they were 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) 1600s, 1700s
Church
Milton Malsor Northamtonshire 1700s
Clark
Great Bromley Essex
Clark Clarke
Great Horkesley, Essex 1700s
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
Cook
Groton area of Suffolk 1700s
Cox
Tilehurst, Berkshire 1800’s and 1700’s
Crane
Boxford and Stoke by Nayland Suffolk 1700s
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 – Barningham and Garboldisham 1800s, Old Buckenham 1700s
De Heer
Amsterdam, Montfoort (Utrecht), Werkendam ( Noord Brabant), Netherlands, 1700’s
Dennis
Kintbury, Berkshire 1800s
Derling
Horsham Sussex, 1600s
Dransfield
Southwark early 1800s
Driscoll
originally from Caherlarhig near Clonakilty in 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
Lambeth, Battersea and Southwark, Surrey 1800’s
Elmer Elmore Elmar Elmir Elmin Elmyn Aylmer
(Boxted) Essex/Suffolk (Boxford) border 1600’s, 1700’s 1800’s
Ely
from Pangbourne in Berkshire, 1700s, prior to that Wantage in Berkshire
Everitt
Wennington Essex
Engbers
Neuenhaus, Uelsen, Germany 1800’s
Faithful
Kintbury, Berkshire 1600s, 1700s
Fowler
London 1700’s
Fox
Banham and Garboldisham Norfolk 1700’s
Francis
Stowmarket area 1800’s
Frank
Cranfield, Bedfordshire 1600’s 1700’s
Fuller
The area to the west of Reading, Berkshire 1600’s 1700’s
Galpin
originate in Dorset, migrated via Somerst to Oxford in 1800s.
Gardener
Debenham area, mid Suffolk 1600’s, 1700’s, 1800’s
Garnham
Cotton and Bacton Suffolk 1700’s
Garvey
originally from Ireland, moved to London before 1861.
Gasgoyne
Bedford 1700’s
Gayton
Woburn, Bedfordshire 1800’s and Brafield Northamptonshire in the 1700s
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
Gooch
Bacton, Debenham and Wetherden, Suffolk 1700s
Goodchild
London 1800’s
Gregory
Spitalfields/Shoreditch, Enfield, Holborn and Bethnal Green London 1800’s – silk weavers
Hall
Stanford Rivers Essex
Ham
Langham Essex 1600s
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.
Norton mid Suffolk, 1700s
Hatt
Tilehurst, Berkshire 1700s
Hawkins
North Essex Great Horkesley 1700s 1600s
Hayden Haydon
Ilford, South-West Essex 1800s
Hendriks
Elburg, Netherlands, 1700s
Hilliard
Burbage, Wiltshire 1700s
Hinds
Langham, Essex 1700s
Holden
Garboldisham Norfolk/Suffolk border 1700s
Holloway
Shoreditch London 1700, 1800s, earlier in the Holborn and St Clements Danes area on the edge of the old City of London
Holloway
from Pangbourne in Berkshire, 1600s
Holme
from Pangbourne in Berkshire, 1600s
Houghton
West Bergholt Essex 1700s
Howell
Ilford, Barking Essex
Huddible
North-West Essex (Widdington, Manuden) 1600’s
Hurford
London early 1800’s, possibly from Bridgwater Somerset
Jackson
Brinklow Warwickshire 1700s
Jane
London, Southwark 1800’s
Joceline
South Suffolk 1700’s
Johnson
North Essex (Boxted, Hatfield Broad Oak) 1700’s
Kelly
North West Essex (Hatfield Broad Oak, Matching) 1700’s
King
Eye, Suffolk 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
Lane
Tilehurst, Berkshire 1700s
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 the area around Pangbourne in 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, 1700s
Militie
Elburg, Netherlands, 1800’s
Miller
Stansted and Broxted, North-West Essex, 1700s
Miller
Cotton Suffolk 1700s
Minter
Boxted North-East Essex 1700s
Moody
from the Holborn area of London in the second half of the 1600s. Connections to Cambridge and Richmond – not yet directly connected
Mynard
Milton Malsor, Northamptonshire 1700s
Nairn
originally from Wigtownshire in southwest Scotland, moved to Blisworth Northamptonshire in the 1840s. Peter Nairn was the chief engineer at the pumping station, where the railway met the Grand Union Canal.
Newman
Burbage, Wiltshire 1700s
Nix
Tilehurst Berkshire 1700s
Offord
central Suffolk 1700s
OsbornOsben
Dedham North-East Essex 1800s
Ouzman
Romford Essex
Pacey
from Blisworth, in Northamptonshire, where there were five generations of shoemakers. Some connection to Spratton. The name goes back to the mid 1500s in Blisworth and neighbouring Gayton
Page
Bedford, 1700s
Pannekoek
Amsterdam, 1700s, Longelen Netherlands, 1700s
Park
Cranfield, Bedfordshire, 1700s
Partridge
Cranfield, Tilsworth Bedfordshire 1600s 1700s
Pearl
Buxhall Suffolk 1700s
Peart
Hockliffe, Bedfordshire 1800s
Penny
from the extra-parochial Savernake Park area of Wiltshire, near Marlborough and Preshute
Pepiatt
St Pancras, London, 1800s
Pilley
North-West Essex (Matching) 1700s
Poulter
Takeley, North-West Essex, 1700s
Porter
Stanford Rivers,Ilford Essex
Pew-Pugh
Kingston upon Thames and Ham in Surrey 1700s
Quail
Leamington and Manchester 1800s, originally from the Downpatrick area of Northern Ireland in 1700s
Radley Ratley
Great Easton, North-West Essex, 1700s
Rastrick
Morpeth 1700s and Portsmouth 1800s
Ratley Radley
Birchanger and Hallingbury, North-West Essex, 1800s
Reed
Wicken Bohunt, North-West Essex, 1700s
Reinders
Hardenberg, Overijssel, Netherlands 1800s
Rice
Aldham, Horkesley Essex 1800s, Groton Suffolk 1700s. Many members of the family are connected with the milling trade.
Rogers
Shoreditch, 1700s
Rose
Dorking Surrey, 1600s 1700s
Rouse
Essex/Suffolk around Dedham border 1700s
Rushbrook Rosbrooke Rosbrook
South Suffolk 1700s
Russell
from Inkpen in south west Berkshire in 1700s. Appear to come from Great Bedwyn in Wiltshire in the previous generation. There might be a connection to the Russell family established in the Tormarton area of Gloucestershire in earlier centuries.
van Ruissen
Amsterdam and Nijkerk, Holland, 1800s
Satchwell
Bubbenhall and Bulkington Warwickshire 1700s, Wolston 1600s
Schievink
Uelsen and Neuenhaus, Germany, 1800s
Searle
Sudbury area, Essex Suffolk border 1900s, Devon, and Quorndon, Leicesteshire, 1800s
Sedgwick
from Mile End Old Town and the Shoreditch area in the 1700s and 1800s
Sheppard
Southwark, Surrey 1880s, Bromley, Kent 1700s
Sheppard Shepherd
Barking Essex
Skingle
Thaxted, Dunmow, Takeley, North-West Essex, 1700s and 1800s
Smith
from Pangbourne on the banks of the Thames in Berkshire
Smith
from Kenilworth and Stoneleigh in Warwickshire 1700s
Snell
Stowmarket area, Suffolk, 1800s
Sprules
from Overton and Fyfield to the west of Marlborough in Wiltshire, 1700s
Squire
Waveney Valley, South Norfolk and North Suffolk, 1700s
Stebbing Stubbing
Ugley, Debden, North-West Essex, 1700s
Stocker
Along the Hampshire, Wiltshire, Berkshire border 1600s 1700s
Sturman
Collingtree and Abington near Northampton early 1700s
Styles
Thrandeston, Suffolk,1700s
Syday
South Suffolk and North Essex – Dedham area, 1700s
Taylor
Ilford, Barking, South-West Essex, 1800s
Trindell
Deptford on the Thames estuary 1700s and 1800s
Thurston
Hoxne, Suffolk 1500s and 1600s
Tussing
Amsterdam, 1600s and 1700s
Ventrice
Shere in Surrey, 1600s and 1700s
Wadley Wardley Vodley
Great Bentley, Great Bromley, Ardleigh, Dedham Tendring area, East Essex, 1800s
Waite
from Overton and Fyfield to the west of Marlborough in Wiltshire in 1700s
Walker
Henham, North-West Essex, 1700s
Warner
Ardleigh and Great Bromley North East Essex, 1700s and 1800s
Westley
Milton Malsoer, Northamptonshire late 1700s and early 1800s
Whale
Lambeth, 1800s, Kingston upon Thames and Ham 1700s
White
Isle of Wight 1600s and 1700s
Whitehead
Lambeth 1700s and 1800s
Wilby Willowby
North Essex 1600s and 1700s
Willis
Barking, Ilford South-West Essex, 1800s
ten Winke
Neuenhaus, Germany, 1600s
Wisby
Wissington and Little Cornard, Suffolk 1700s
Wood
Stanford Rivers Essex
Woodfain
From Dunstable in south Bedfordshire, a busy stage coach town on Watling Street
Woolmer
Stanford Rivers Essex
Worham
London 1700s and 1800s – the family is very confused and complicated with remarriages and missing years
Wynants
Amsterdam, 1700s
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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