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Things we are currently working on - 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.
Changes - June-July-August 2023
- 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.
Changes - April-May-June 2023
- 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.
Changes - January-February-March 2023
- 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).
Format and Content Changes 2022
- The format & content of the individual person page has changed.
A "Key Events" section has been added showing ONLY the Birth, Marriage, and Death events for the person.
A "Location by Decade" section shows a summary of where we have located a person,
this include any census entries where we have identified them, the 1939 survey of UK residents,
and "Location" and "Living" data where available.
The "Detailed Timeline" shows all events for the person, and some events for their parents and children.
- All census entries, including UK, USA, and Canada, are being converted to "Census".
- The "Place Clarification" pages have been moved to a new web sub-site,
making them more widely accessible. More miscellany items will be added there.
September-October-November-December 2022
- We have added ROBERT LEECH at the top of the Leech Family Tree, and linked several minor Leech entries together.
The MEASHAM family has been added to the LEECH tree.
- We now have access to the England & Wales 1921 census.
This is providing interesting, and sometimes surprising, employment details.
We have now added 99 household entries for the 1921 census, and are researching 300 more.
We aim to review ALL the data for the family involved as add the census. - Information from the September 1939 UK Population Survey is shown as "1939 register",
the register contains birth dates for everyone.
It formed the base register for the National Health Service and was updated continuously into the 1950s. - Major revisions and additions to the Braithwaite Family and the Higson Family.
Over 400 people have been added or changed. - We have started adding visible "Research Note" entries.
They will indicate that we are unable to complete our research on a person,
because records are unavailable, or if the available records are unclear.
June-July-August 2022
- We are working to make ALL our sources/citations visible on the website.
- The Higson-Parker-Shackleton Family has been revised. Another 200 people have been added/changed.
- All "Census 1841" entries are now "Census UK" entries.
- New Descendant Tree for the DAWSON family added.
- A new web sub-site of the Bancks family is now visible.(see Introduction page)
It contains our discoveries of Banks/Bancks/Banckes families in Lancashire and Gloucestershire,
and their inter-connections.
January-May 2022
- Major revision of all census entries.
- Major revisions and additions to the Bancks-Wigan families.
- Atherton Family, of North Wales, added (40 people), linked to the LEECH family.
October-November-December 2021
- Changing all census entries for UK, USA, and Canada to our new formats is continuing.
The first batch (1851, all USA, all Canada) threw up some problems which we are clearing. - New research on the Bancks family and their descendants is continuing.
- Researching the Sharples families in the Marple area has shown there is one large family.
It is linked to the Leech, Rodger, and Blackwell families, new descendant tree has been added to the Leech page. - The locations of some family charts have been changed.
- The SWANN family has been refreshed and extended. A new chart has been added.
- The list of people who served in the armed forces was found to be out-of-date, 40 people have been added.
The list of people killed by war was similarly outdated, so we are manually refreshing it. - Several church co-ordinates have been corrected, the maps are improved.
- The SMITH, BRUCKSHAW and FAULKNER families (related to LEECH) have been greatly extended, and the work is continuing.
The large BRUNT and DOWNS families are being investigated - The Shallcross family in Chapel-en-le-Frith has been extended, and a chart added to the Shackleton page.
July-August-September 2021
- Correcting the content and format of many census records, and changing all North American census entries.
- Creating a new, common, format for all UK census entries(except 1841), and converting existing records.
- Updated our records for the interlinked Longson, Fuzzard, Beard and Kirk families.
- Extended/Updated our records of the (John W) Rodger family in St Louis, Missouri, and other parts of the USA.
New surnames have been added and any "Rodgers" primary names (figments created in one census) are removed. - Re-coded our records so that Jersey and Guernsey are now classed as "Counties" within "Country" Channel Islands.
- We are extending our research into the enormous Hewitt families, based in Cheshire.
- The Higson-Grimshaw Family now contains over 250 people.
- We have re-organized our records of the Frankland & Fulton famiilies, and added a new chart.
- We have embarked on a large project to check/correct the surname shown on every married woman's records.
For many of our people this will be her husband's surname, but we have several exceptions.
We will ensure the surname shown matches that on the original record. - Working through a historic list of queries collected over several years has generated updates for 1200 people.
- The format of all sentences generated on the website is being reviewed and revised.
- We have changed some of our "Place Clarification" entries.
April-May-June 2021
- Continued research of early Higson ancestors and their descendants into the 20th century.
There are now about 180 people in this descendant tree. - We have added the CLOVER family (related to George Washington RODGER)
- We havee improved our records for the WHAWELL, BABUT, LONGSON, CARRINGTON and BAGSHAW families.
- Work on the Woodford families continues.
- We have slightly altered the parameters on many descendant charts, this should not affect the published website.
January-February-March 2021
- We have broken the "People" page into two pieces - "Indexes" and "Lists".
- Continuing research of early Higson ancestors and their descendants.
We have found some problems with our Higson records centered around the time our branch of the family left Yorkshire
and moved to Levenshulme, Manchester.
As a result we have removed 83 people from this website, and added them to our "Other" website.
We are re-building our research into the Higson family in the 17th, 18th and 19th century,
and have added or changed about 400 people in this family since January 2021. - We have added a new list of the twins & triplets in our records.
The format of this list, and of other similar lists has been improved. - We are continuing the reorganization of the Rigby families.
- The Shard, Heath, Pearson, Swindells & Shadwell families in the Cheadle, Woodford & Poyton area continue to cause problems,
we are gradually adding more information about them, and clarifying the family relationships. - We will clean up of all Canadian & USA entries, especially census entries.
- We have a special concentration on baptism records.
- There are small changes/additions to the Boswell/Whawell families of Derbyshire & Manchester.
- Also to the James/Ward family of Dawley, Shropshire.
- And the Simpson family of High Legh, Cheshire.
- And the Humphreys family of the Wrexham area.
Statistics generated Wednesday 13/12/2023
- We exclude from our website anyone that (maybe) alive, and certain family "twigs".
- Of the 11406 individuals in our database, our main website now shows 10403 people.
- Of these 328 are identified as ancestors including 156 "Brick walls".
- There are 3579 relatives - descendants of ancestors,
- and 5929 people related by marriage - spouses of relatives & their ancestors, descendants & spouses.
- The remaining 567 people, include boarders, lodgers, employers, employees, servants, visitors,
- and 2 people not yet classified (newly added).
Old statistics
Date | Database size | Main Website | Ancestors | Brick walls | Relatives | Related by marriage | Others |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
13/12/2023 | 11406 | 10403 | 328 | 156 | 3579 | 5929 | 565 |
29/11/2023 | 11369 | 10367 | 328 | 156 | 3551 | 5921 | 565 |
30/10/2023 | 11253 | 10263 | 328 | 156 | 3494 | 5868 | 565 |
29/09/2023 | 11130 | 10171 | 328 | 156 | 3452 | 5830 | 559 |
26/08/2023 | 10940 | 9977 | 328 | 156 | 3346 | 5745 | 557 |
31/07/2023 | 10789 | 9835 | 327 | 155 | 3292 | 5659 | 556 |
27/06/2023 | 10691 | 9758 | 324 | 154 | 3254 | 5622 | 557 |
11/05/2023 | 10652 | 9722 | 324 | 154 | 3243 | 5598 | 557 |
26/04/2023 | 10644 | 9713 | 324 | 154 | 3241 | 5591 | 557 |
31/03/2023 | 10572 | 9642 | 324 | 154 | 3199 | 5563 | 552 |
19/02/2023 | 10447 | 9517 | 324 | 154 | 3136 | 5501 | 552 |
29/01/2023 | 10335 | 9436 | 318 | 150 | 3082 | 5484 | 549 |
28/12/2022 | 10310 | 9414 | 322 | 153 | 3083 | 5458 | 549 |
29/11/2022 | 10257 | 9369 | 322 | 153 | 3068 | 5428 | 551 |
20/10/2022 | 10149 | 9299 | 320 | 152 | 3027 | 5384 | 567 |
27/09/2022 | 10086 | 9259 | 320 | 152 | 3019 | 5354 | 555 |
25/08/2022 | 10005 | 9206 | 320 | 152 | 3010 | 5310 | 555 |
24/07/2022 | 9901 | 9114 | 320 | 152 | 2956 | 5272 | 555 |
25/06/2022 | 9737 | 8964 | 320 | 152 | 2868 | 5221 | 555 |
05/05/2022 | 9676 | 8901 | 320 | 152 | 2851 | 5177 | 553 |
24/04/2022 | 9661 | 8886 | 320 | 152 | 2848 | 5164 | 550 |
28/03/2022 | 9587 | 8817 | 320 | 152 | 2783 | 5164 | 550 |
26/02/2022 | 9500 | 8730 | 320 | 152 | 2726 | 5134 | 550 |
29/01/2022 | 9434 | 8668 | 317 | 150 | 2708 | 5093 | 550 |
24/12/2021 | 9285 | 8519 | 317 | 150 | 2594 | 5058 | 550 |
30/11/2021 | 9180 | 8414 | 317 | 150 | 2547 | 5000 | 550 |
30/10/2021 | 9017 | 8264 | 311 | 147 | 2483 | 4928 | 542 |
28/09/2021 | 8769 | 8011 | 307 | 145 | 2437 | 4705 | 562 |
26/08/2021 | 8590 | 7850 | 307 | 145 | 2413 | 4579 | 544 |
30/07/2021 | 8466 | 7747 | 306 | 144 | 2406 | 4493 | 541 |
09/06/2021 | 8351 | 7646 | 306 | 145 | 2394 | 4405 | 541 |
23/05/2021 | 8312 | 7612 | 306 | 145 | 2390 | 4375 | 539 |
09/04/2021 | 8208 | 7524 | 306 | 145 | 2359 | 4312 | 547 |
28/03/2021 | 8174 | 7490 | 305 | 145 | 2354 | 4284 | 547 |
28/02/2021 | 8024 | 7359 | 305 | 145 | 2286 | 4221 | 547 |
28/01/2021 | 7869 | 7211 | 303 | 144 | 2205 | 4155 | 548 |
31/12/2020 | 7846 | 7194 | 300 | 142 | 2251 | 4102 | 525 |
30/11/2020 | 7717 | 7071 | 300 | 143 | 2198 | 4038 | 529 |
31/10/2020 | 7569 | 6939 | 300 | 143 | 2185 | 3909 | 538 |
26/09/2020 | 7307 | 6700 | 300 | 143 | 2152 | 3705 | 542 |
31/08/2020 | 7226 | 6637 | 300 | 143 | 2142 | 3653 | 542 |
19/07/2020 | 7095 | 6502 | 300 | 143 | 2106 | 3549 | 540 |
24/06/2020 | 7027 | 6451 | 300 | 143 | 2098 | 3513 | 540 |
30/05/2020 | 6973 | 6398 | 300 | 143 | 2094 | 3464 | 536 |
20/04/2020 | 6857 | 6325 | 300 | 143 | 2076 | 3411 | 536 |
28/03/2020 | 6803 | 6285 | 300 | 143 | 2059 | 3388 | 536 |
28/02/2020 | 6746 | 6233 | 300 | 143 | 2034 | 3341 | 557 |
29/01/2020 | 6664 | 6171 | 300 | 143 | 2015 | 3294 | 562 |
04/12/2019 | 6605 | 6121 | 300 | 143 | 2007 | 3251 | 563 |
24/12/2018 | 5998 | 5518 | 289 | 136 | 1851 | 2835 | 513 |
20/07/2017 | 5310 | 4897 | 287 | 135 | 1707 | 2363 | 536 |
22/12/2016 | 5612 | 4752 | 282 | 133 | 1610 | 2218 | 638 |
19/12/2015 | 4953 | 4093 | 272 | 129 | 1495 | 1916 | 410 |
25/12/2014 | 4445 | 3667 | 251 | 119 | 1354 | 1704 | 332 |
22/12/2013 | 3647 | 3195 | 243 | 116 | 1279 | 1356 | 317 |
Details of activities in earlier years is suppressed.