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
A new generation of Wadley boys
Family
names
- Addington -
Milton Malsor Nothamptonshire 1700's
- Agitt/Aggit/Agett
- Leicestershire 1800's
- Annatts -
Kintbury, Berkshire 1800's
- Baines -
North-West Essex (Broxted and Wimbish) 1700's
- Baker -
North-West Essex (Broxted and Stansted) 1700's
- Balham/Balaam
- Suffolk 1700's
- Barnard -
Suffolk 1700's, 1800's, 1900's
- Barret -
Courteenhale Northamptonshire 1700's
- Barwell -
Leicestershire 1800's
- Bass -
South Suffolk 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
- Busby
- Long Coombe, Oxfordshire 1800's
- Cant -
North-East Essex (West Bergholt, Aldham ) 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
- 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
- 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 -
possibly famine escapees.
- Dunn -
Leicestshire/Warwickshire border mid 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 -
WenningtonEssex
- Engbers -
Neuenhaus, Uelsen, Germany 1800's
- Fowler -
London 1700's
- Frank -
Cranfield, Bedfordshire 1600's 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
- Godfrey -
Manuden Essex early 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
- Jane -
London, Southwark 1800's
- Joceline -
South Suffolk 1700's
- Kelly -
North West Essex (Hatfield Broad Oak, Matching) 1700's
- King -
Shoreditch 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
- Ligtenberg -
Lingen, Germany 1600's, 1700's, Amsterdam 1700'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
- 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
- Minter -
Boxted North-East Essex 1700's
- Mynard -
Milton Malsor, Northamptonshire 1700's
- Nairn -
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.
- 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 Bedfordshire1600's 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
- RadleyRatley
- Great Easton, North-West Essex, 1700'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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Wynants -
Amsterdam, 1700's
Occupations