Changes

• Index of Recently Changed People

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Changes 2025

• This is the first new version published since October 2024.


• We are adding to the Massey/Clark/Highfield Families, around Great Budworth.


• Many people have been added to the Penkethman Families of Lancashire.


• We are researching the Pearson families of Cheshire.


• We now show more enties in the "Location by Decade" display for each person.
  If this becomes more confusing, and less useful we will change this on the next release.


• We are updating the Place Clarification pages.


• We suppress details of anyone who has died since 2020.


• As we come across people/records that we have not updated recently, we are "modernising" our records.
  This may lead to more information about these people being visible,
  or 1911/1921/1939 records appearing, or citations, or places being clarified.

Changes 2024

• Many more families related to the Bonsall family of Monyash, have been added.
  Also the related Bailey family information has been extended.
  Both these families have many descendants in the USA.


• Many images have been added to people, events and places.


• We can not currently link John Massey (1760-) and his descendants to our other Massey families,
  so we have linked them into a separate MASSEY-L tree.
• Also we have a partial unlinked tree for John Massey (1804-) and his descendants, at MASSEY-U.

Changes - September-October-November-December 2023

• Many more families related to the Bonsall family of Monyash, are being added.
• Several Clark/Clarke and Massey families, some related to the Hewitt families, are being extended.
• We have updated our information on the family of William Clark and Catherine Highfield,
  by adding Peter Jackson's descendants
• The Index of Churches, Chapels, Cemeteries and Memorials, now has Hospitals included.
• The villages/hamlets of Little Leigh, Barnton, Bartington, Seven Oaks, Whitley (Superior, Inferior, Upper, Lower) and Wincham are listed as parts of Great Budworth, the ancient parish.
• Minor changes to the families linked to David James Shackleton.

• The Percival & Morton families, related to the Bonsall family of Monyash, have been added.
• We have added to the Leech-Smith-Beard/Baird-Broadbent families, and added a descendant chart for Beard/Baird.
• Many Memorials in our database have been reformatted.
• All Marriages in our database now have extra information, where it is available.

• The complete revision of our families from MONYASH in Derbyshire is continuing.
• All images connected to people are now linked through the "camera" icon.
• We have added a family descendant chart for "SHATWELL-2", and are trying to link our 2 Shatwell families in Cheshire.
• We now have 3 "SHARD" family descendant charts.
• We have truncated the FAULKNER chart at 6 generations.

• The format of the "Name Index List" has changed.
• We have found an error in how we have recorded some births/baptisms, marriages and deaths/burials,
  which prevents these items being in the "Key Events" section.
  We are reviewing this, it will take several months for us to check/fix all 750 affected people (555 remaining 22/3/2023).
• Research on the AXON family is slow as they are mainly in the USA or Canada.
• Whenever entries have no citation, or the citation has been suppressed, a citation will be added.
• A complete revision of our families from MONYASH in Derbyshire.
• We are reviewing all census entries in our database
  We have generally fixed the ages quoted - we only reformat it and leave the age "as recorded".
  We have fixed most "Relation to Head of Household" when it is mis-spelled (eg NEICE/NIECE), and added any clarifications in brackets ().
  We are now working to clean up "Birth Place".
  In the UK & Ireland census, this is usually "Town, County" or "County, Town" or "Scotland" or "Ireland".
  But variations occur - "Village, Town, County" or "Country" or "Town, Country" or "Area, City" or "Country, British Subject".
  We are correcting spelling, ONLY WHERE NECESSARY for understanding/consistency, or where we have mis-transcribed them.
  Examples: CAENARVONSHIRE, CAENAVONSHIRE, CAERNARVONSHIRE are all left as is,
  Abegab becomes Abegab, (Burmah, India) - its historic location
  Chapel en le frith, Chapel-en-le Frith both become Chapel-en-le-Frith (hyphens & capitals added)
  CAMBELLTOWN & CAMBLETOWN are corrected to Campbeltown (if we are certain that was meant).

Details of activities in earlier years is suppressed.

Statistics generated Thursday 11/09/2025

• We exclude from our website anyone that (maybe) alive, and certain family "twigs".


• There are 12738 individuals in our database, our main website now shows 11660 people.


• 344 of these are identified as ancestors, including 163 "Brick walls".


• There are 4206 relatives - descendants of ancestors,
  and 6439 people related by marriage - spouses of relatives & their ancestors, descendants & spouses.


• The remaining 671 people, include boarders, lodgers, employers, employees, servants, visitors,
  and 217 people not classified.

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