Family Histories

Brief histories of my ancestors and yours too if your family is here!

Since I started on the Genealogy journey the world of research has changed astronomically! Years ago to obtain information one either had the good luck to inherit documents, books etc. or to be told of what had happened in the past and have stories handed down through the family, which could be researched. To access newspaper articles, old parish registers and records one had to go to the Genealogy Libraries of the Church of the Latter-day Saints, for which I was very grateful that they had so much information. Other places of research were Libraries, City and Town Archives. But now, at the click of a mouse, one can get so much information it is really mind boggling!

In these pages I have tried to give a brief history of my ancestors using the information I have obtained over many years and from a huge range of sources. For some families I have much more information than others. Those families for which I have very little information will be the first I shall be researching in the near future. Some of these families I researched years ago and could not find information on them but I now have more recent findings that I have not yet had the time to investigate.

This website is by no means complete but I have tried hard to get it up and going over the last couple of years. There are still many people not included that I still wish to include some of whom had very memorable lives.

To access the Family History Pages, of the family you wish to see, click on the surname  and you will be taken to that family page. Those surnames highlighted in purple I do not have enough information yet to create a family page but you will find them mentioned under the surname they appear listed under.

Paternal Families

DEIGHAN family:

James, William Joseph

BRENNAN family:

Mary

MURPHY family:

John, Mary Margaret (Maud), DORAN family

Maternal Families

HECKRATH family:

Edmund Ignatius, Ernst Jacob, Adolph

HECKRATH family: – sons of Adolph

Edmund Walter, James Adolph

HECKRATH family: – sons of Edmund Walter

Adolph James, Cyril Alfred

SIEDEL family:

Adam, Elizabeth Theresia, Regina  Margaretha LOURENS of the Cape

SMITH family:

John, James

SMITH family: – children of John Smith

Charlotte Rebecca, John Owen, Sarah Elizabeth

KIFT family:

William, James Bennett, Edmund Lombard, Elizabeth

RUSSEL family:

James, John, Harriet

LOMBARD family:

Mehetabel

SKATES family:

James, Mortimer Daniel, Ida Laurie Beatrice, WHIFFING family

READING family:

William & Elizabeth READING, GLASS family

PRATT family:

Noah, Joshua, Joseph, Kate, BOYS family

KIRBY family:

William, Elizabeth, CROON family

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