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Comments on postings
In the three months since I started this blog, very few people have used the Comments feature to comment on anything I have posted here, though some have responded by private e-mail. That is rather sad, because it means that others in the family can’t see what you have written. There are actually [...]

Growdon/Growden family page, and other web updates

Growden page
I’ve updated the Growdon/Growden family page, so if you have Growden ancestors or relatives, please have a look.
My tribes
I’ve also found a replacement for my Yahoo 360 pages, which were closed in May. For a while I tried MySpace as a substitute, but it was clunky and hard to use. I’ve found something better [...]

Thwaites, Green families in Australia

I’ve just had some correspondence with Emma Hannah, who was married to Roger Thwaites, son of FJ Thwaites, the Australian novelist, who was the grandson of Margaret Agnes Ann Green and Walter Thwaites. This adds something to what we know of the Thwaites side of the family.
Margaret Agnes Ann Green (known as Agnes) and her [...]

Sandercock/Saundercock family

Nola Buzza writes:
I’m very excited to report that I have just found three Saundercock brothers who died in USA – William born 1866, Thomas H born 1870, Robert born 1872 – sons of William Thomas Saundercock & Emma Jane Wellington. It seems that William may have married and had at least [...]

Searching Bedminster marriage registers

Nothing much to report on the research front. I had to go to a meeting in Johannesburg, where I met an old friend Mike Murphy. Not a relation, but I first met him nearly 50 years ago when he and his sister Brigid came to stay with some cousins ofn theirs who lived next door [...]

Andrew’s Amusing Anecdotes: The Family Cottam

Looks like another Cottam family
Andrew’s Amusing Anecdotes: The Family Cottam
I wonder if there is any connection. Ours was from Lancaster, and I seem to recollect seeing a place near Lancaster with a name similar to a place in Country Durham — was it Sunderland? I’ll have to check.

Our main family history page

Just another reminder that our main family history page has moved to http://hayesfam.bravehost.com/famhist1.htm. If you visit it, please don’t forget to sign the Guestbook!
At the old site it was linked to a family tree, but we have not managed to to that on the new site yet, but I hope to get a new [...]

Nation family of New Zealand

For a long time we were in correspondence with a distant cousin, Henry Andrew (Andy) Nation, of Punawaitai, Waipawa, New Zealand. He was descended from Edward Lister Green, the brother of Val’s great great grandfather Frederick Thomas Green. Andy was interested in family history, and sent us a copy of Edward Lister Green’s diary and [...]

Visit our family web pages

This blog contains mostly new family information as we find it, and so you might wonder where it fits together.
You can check our main family web pages by clicking on the image below.

Not everything is there yet, but you will find links to more family information, and places where you can see the [...]

Growden in Canada

I know that at least one branch of our Growden/Growdon family went to Canada, and wonder if the Rick Growden mentioned in this article is a member of this family:
A wasted two years for Durham?durhamregion.com – Jun 1, 2006
The Growden who went to Canada was James Growden (1837-?), son of Thomas and Sidwell Growden [...]