An online history and genealogy of a British Family, that stretches across Wales, Ireland, India, and the English counties of Norfolk, Berkshire, London, Surrey, Bedfordshire, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, and Somerset - and back in time through four centuries. It includes families (so far - with many more to come) of the following surnames: Baxter, Brooker, Brown, Crutchfield, Curtis, Durran, Edney, Freeman, Goffen, Hewitt, Key, Larke Ling, Lawn, Matthews, Merrison, Norton, Rose, Shawers, Shepherd, Smith, Tammas, Thacker, Tovell, - and more...

This is a website that is always under development - I have a family tree database of over 1200 individuals to transfer to html. This will be a long and slow process. Last upload - March 13th 2002

Present webpages

English Counties

Berkshire

• BROWN   The Brown family of Burghfield, and Burghfield Common.
• CRUTCHFIELD   Crutchfield or Critchfield of 1740s Whitchurch.
• EDNEY   Edney of Whitchurch.

Norfolk

• BAXTER   The Baxters of Gressenhall Workhouse and the East Dereham area.
• CURTIS   The Curtis family of East Norfolk Broadland - Hassingham, Southwood, Strumpshaw, etc.
• FREEMAN   Freemans of 1770 - 1790s Attleborough.
• GOFFEN   The Goffens of Reedham.
• HEWITT   The Hewitts of late eighteenth century Attleborough.
• KEY   The Key family of Norwich and Freethorpe.
• LARKE   The Larkes of 1717 - 1887 Cantley, Blofield, Hassingham, East Norfolk.
• LING   Ling of Acle.
• LAWN   Lawns of Halvergate, East Norfolk.
• MERRISON   Merrison or Morrison of Lingwood.
• NORTON   Norton of Strumpshaw.
• ROSE   Rose - Strumpshaw, Brundall, Lingwood, Cantley, Southwood etc.
• SHEPHERD   The Shepherd family of 1770s Reedham.
• SMITH   Smith family of Attleborough and Norwich. From 1771 to 1940.
• TAMMAS   Tammas of Chedgrave, and Langley.
• THACKER   The Thackers of Salhouse and Rackheath.
• TOVELL   Tovell of Chedgrave, Langley, Tunstall, and Halvergate.

London

• BROOKER   My paternal line - The Brooker's of Victorian London. Fulham, Deptford, etc.
• SHAWERS   Shawers of 1850s Bethnal Green, and Haggerstone.

Oxfordshire

• BROOKER   Brooker family of Rotherfield Peppard and Harpsden, 1815 - 1881.
• CRUTCHFIELD   Crutchfield / Critchfield of Whitchurch.
• DURRAN   Durrans of Deddington.
• EDNEY   The Edney family of Whitchurch and Shiplake.

Wiltshire

• BROWN   Brown of Bremhill, Foxham, and Langley Burrell. 1779 - 1881.
• MATTHEWS   Matthews of Chippenham and Langley Burrell.

The above represents only a minority of our recorded genealogy. Until I have written it all in html, you can download and use our .ged family tree database file if you have a program that can open it.

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