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.
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you want to contact me
please mail famhist@nospam.highfields1.plus.com - remove
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A
new generation of Wadley boys
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Family
names
- Addington -
Milton Malsor Nothamptonshire 1700's
- Agitt/Aggit/Agett
- Leicestershire 1800's
- Annatts -
Kintbury, Berkshire 1800's
- Archer - Stowmarket
area of Suffolk 1800's
- Ashford - Suffolk -
Woodbridge 1800's and Worlingworth and Saxstead area 1700's
- Baines -
North-West Essex (Broxted and Wimbish) 1700's
- Baker -
North-West Essex (Broxted and Stansted) 1700's
- Baker - Polstead and
Stoke by Nayland 1600's and 1700's
- Balham/Balaam
- Suffolk 1700's
- Barnard -
Suffolk 1700's, 1800's, 1900's
- Barnard - 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.
- Beare - South
Suffolk 1600's and 1700'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
- Boyton -
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 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(e) -
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 Suffolk 1700's
- Cox -
Tilehurst, Berkshire 1800's
- Crane - Groton
Suffolk 1700'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 -
possibly famine escapees.
- Dunn - Lichfield
Staffordshire 1700's and 1800's
- Ebrall - London or
South Weald 1700'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 and south Weald Essex 1700's
- 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 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.
- Harvey - mid Suffolk
1700's
- Hawkins - North east
Essex 1700's
- 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
- 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
- Lachair -
Amsterdam 1600's and 1700's, originally from La Haye, Normandy in 1500's
- Lee -
Barking, Ilford Essex 1700's and 1800's
- Lewis - Boxford
early 1700's
- Ligtenberg -
Lingen, Germany 1600's, 1700's, Amsterdam 1700's
- Lord - Little
Waldingfield Suffolk 1600's
- 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
- Markham - Suffolk
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
- Mobbs -
Worlingworth area Suffolk 1700's
- Mynard -
Milton Malsor, Northamptonshire 1700's
- Nairn
-
Peter was originally from Wigtownshire in southwest Scotland,
moved to Blisworth in the 1840's, where he was the chief engineer on
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
- Palmer - Haverhill
and Woodbridge Suffolk - 1800's
- Pannekoek -
Amsterdam, 1700's, Longelen Netherlands, 1700's
- Park -
Cranfield, Bedfordshire, 1700's
- Partridge -
Cranfield, Tilsworth
Bedfordshire1600'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
- 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 -
Devon, and Quorndon, Leicesteshire, 1800's
- Shephard -
Southwark, Surrey 1880's, Bromley, Kent 1700's
- Sheppard/Shepherd
- Barking Essex 1700's
- Skingle -
Thaxted, Dunmow, Takeley, North-West Essex, 1700's and 1800's
- Snell -
Stowmarket area, Suffolk, 1800's
- Squire -
Waveney Valley, 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 -
Great Bromley North East Essex, 1800's
- Whale -
Lambeth, 1800's
- Wiffen - Stifford
Suffolk 1800's
- Willis -
Barking, Ilford South-West Essex, 1800's
- ten Winkel
- 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
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