Which families are people interested in?

Here are the top families that people were interested in on our family wiki at http://hayesgreene.wikispaces.com

Page	Views
space.discussion.GreenAW1194	154
home	130
GreeneFT144	89
Vause_Family	85
SchultzJ40	76
Morton_Family	75
Bagot_Family	73
Green_family	59
Index_of_People	36
Family index	34
ParkW223	32
Ahnentafel	29
Devantier_family	27
GreenAW1194	27
About	26
Stooke_Family	25
Decker family	22
Sandercock Family	22
GreenMAA935	21
Growdon_Family	21
GreenWJ140	19
PearsonW2044	18
VauseRW232	18
CottamJB227	17

But, as usual, no one contributed any information about these families, or even left a message to say what it was they were looking for. And, also as usual, the thing that most people most wanted to do was discuss Alfred William Green, 154 of them, to be exact — but not one of them wrote a word.

Perhaps it’s time to acknowledge that the wiki conscept hasn’t caught on, and that the wiki page isn’t working, and take it down.

Progress report – Park family history and others

We haven’t had much time for family history the last couple of weeks, and now there seems to be a problem with our ISP so we can’t access the web (though e-
mail still seems to be working). We’ve made contact with some other researchers who have provided quite a lot of useful help on the PARK family. My ggg grandfather William PARK (c1780-
1844) of Bath, Belfast and Quebec seems to have had a number of children, and thanks to Shaun Jones on the Rootschat site, we’ve managed to find quite a few possible links. We’ve also made contact with a James PARK in Luxembourg, who has suggested a possible link between William PARK and a PARK family of Ballynure, Antrim, Ireland. We’re still looking for confirmation of most of this.

William Park married Mary Martin, daughter of John Martin, a merchant of Belfast, and we are still looking for more information on the Martin side of the family as well. Their daughter Matilda PARK married Richard VAUSE, and came to Natal in 1852, immediately after their marriage. Richard Vause was part owner of the Natal Mercury (with John Robinson) and was five times mayor of Durban.