These are pages highlighting people in my various family trees. Family history is more than compiling trees, it is about lives lived, things done and the links between our ancestors and ourselves. These are voices that want to be heard.
I am a serious family historian, not interested in simple family trees (although I certainly have plenty of them) but in the stories, the history and the people. There is a great deal more to family history than lists of dates, census data and chronologies. I view my pages as a form of social networking – joining the living past to the present. I welcome comments and additional information.
Hello, I have just been reading your fascinating account of Hugh Hogarth. I am a great-granddaughter of Peter Clark Hogarth. I believe that means we are related, but how??!
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Abigail Bibby
I came across your web site while looking for information about your grandfather F.E. Birks, my interest being in photography in Derbyshire:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brett/photos/dbyphotos.html
What I didn’t appreciate was that I am also related to him, and therefore to you. My 5g-grandparents were William Else (1746-1827) and Grace Birks (1748-1826). From what I can tell, Frank Elliott Birks’ grandparents were William Birks (1805-1863) and Mary Else (1807-). It appears that Mary Else’s grandfather David Else (1757) was a younger brother to my ancestor William Else.
If you would like to get in touch please email me gluepot@gmail.com
Regards and best wishes,
Brett Payne
Tauranga, New Zealand