The focal point of this web site is the Pedigree of
Finn HARRIS - my grandson - born April 2002. The information contained
herein has been obtained from many different and varied sources, not the least
of which are the excellent memories of the longer living members of our family.
We have been fortunate to have had at least our fair share of longevity genes
- including one centenarian.
The Home
Page gives links to each generation of Finn's forebears. A click on a
name on the Surname Interests
page will take you to the first person of that name in the Pedigree. The "parents"
and "child" links will take you through the generations of that
name; "next page" and "previous page" links at the bottom
of each page will also take you through the generations.
I have, over the years, collected a good deal of information
on some of the families in the Pedigree and where I think there is sufficient
to warrant a "tree", this can be accessed by clicking on "Family"
against a surname on the "Surnames Interests" page. I hope to produce
more such "trees"and, indeed, to expand both the existing ones and
the Pedigree. Currently, Finn has a full set of Ancestor's names (bar one
surname) up to and including his 4 x Great Grandparents.
I have tended to accept information in both the IGI and transcribed
Parish Registers at it's face value, although I have also spent much time
looking through the Registers in the Taunton, Southwark, Gloucester, Hampshire
and Monmouth Record Offices, as well as the Family Records Centre and the
library of The Society of Genealogists, to verify information and to check
links.
I have, in some cases, assumed a "best fit" - usually
marked with a "?" - and would welcome any corrections or other information
where I might have got it wrong. Where dates are suffixed by a (c), I have
either got, or seen, the relevant certficate. Dates that I have obtained from
Free BMD or Ancestry. Co.uk have been marked with a "Q".
Please feel free to e-mail
me with any information or questions you may have on any of the families or
names herein. I will do my best to respond promptly.