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A collection of pages each related to a particular surname on my family tree or that of my wife which I have researched in some detail. As well as my own particular interests, I have given some background information on the origins and distribution of each surname. To go to a particular page just click on the links above. I also run an international Sherwood One-Name Study Group on a separate site which has much more information on that name.
My main surname interests in England are:
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SHERWOOD in the Ashford area of Kent from 1550 |
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CARTER in the Stevenage area of Hertfordshire from 1740 (Aston & Knebworth), and from 1880 in Cheshunt. |
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KIDDLE/KIDDELL, From 1340 in Barton-on-Humber, Lincs, then ca1500 in Northants, and in Hertfordshire from 1790. |
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SHETTLE/SHUTTLE in Wilts from 1500, Winchester area of Hampshire from 1790, and Lambeth, Surrey from ca1860. |
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TROTT in Somerset (Aisholt from 1600, West Monkton & Creech St.Michael). Newington & Walworth in Surrey from 1820. |
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and on my wife's tree: |
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SEAGRO(A)TT in Stepney(1786), Poplar(1810-1920), Islington and Highgate (from 1881) all in Middlesex or East London. I collect all references, and run a one-name study registered with the Guild of One-Name Studies. |
| IMBER in Wiltshire from 1500, and in Shaftesbury, Dorset from 1749. |
| GRUMMITT/GROMET(T) in Morton-by-Bourne & Hacconby, Lincolnshire from 1570. |
| BIGGS in Stevenage, Hertfordshire 1750 to 1820. |
Click here to search transcripts of records which I have made containing these names.
A summary of my pedigree chart is as follows:
Parents: Herbert John Sherwood born 1907 in Boughton Aluph, Kent, and Lucy
Florence Carter born 1896 in Cheshunt, Herts.
Grandparents:
Paternal: George Sherwood born 1874 at Kennington near Ashford and Ellen Cooper
nee Shettle, born 1868 in Lambeth, Surrey.
Maternal: Charles Carter born 1858, Knebworth, Herts and Hannah Kiddle
born 1855, Shephall, Herts.
Great-grandparents:
John Thomas Sherwood (1852-1929) and Frances Hayward (1854-1921)
John Shettle(1834-1873) and Matilda Foster nee Trott (1827-1891)
George Carter (1812-) and Elizabeth Piggott (1818- )
Samuel Kiddle (1815-1876) and Sarah Biggs (?-1867)
And my wife's:
Parents: Edgar Walter Seagroatt born 1915
Borden, Hants, and Edna Jane Imber born 1907, Northampton.
And now for a bit about myself:
I
live in the seaside resort of Weymouth in Dorset on the south-west coast of
England with my wife, Tomasa. We have a son, Darren and a daughter, Annette. I
am a retired Metallurgist & Materials Scientist, born 1939 in Cheshunt,
Hertfordshire about 15 miles north of London. Like most people, I had taken
little interest in my family roots in younger life, but in 1988 my wife gave me
a book on tracing ancestry, and so began what has become an absorbing & very
fulfilling hobby. At that stage my tree only extended back to my grandparents,
all I knew was that my father's family originated from the Ashford area of Kent,
and my mother's CARTER line from Stevenage, Herts. I began by joining my local
society the Somerset & Dorset FHS , and then widened this to include the Wilts FHS, the Kent
FHS, and the Society of Genealogists.
In 1995 I joined the Guild of One-Name Studies and registered my own name plus
SEAGROATT which is my wife's maiden name. I have served on the executive
committee of the Somerset & Dorset, and have been the census indexing co-ordinator.
This site is maintained by who welcomes any enquiries on the families listed. It has been indexed by PicoSearch so that you can search it for part of any word or phrase:
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This page was last updated on 18 November, 2010