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Welcome
to the CreativeGraces Genealogical Index, a
database of
related families of UK/Irish origins researched since 1981.
You will find appropriate links
and other researchers on many family pages, as well as connections to any
linked families overseas. Each family has a dedicated webpage. To
reduce email spam, I prefer links of other researchers to be personal websites
rather than email addresses. From 2007 I am no longer posting direct email links
on webpages, but may be found in attached documents in deconstructed form to
avoid being picked up by bots. All relevant information researched by me or freely received is posted here for
the benefit of all researchers.
These files
are updated as soon as new information is available, which can be most
weekends. Please note that I do not have any other data
offline as all data is available on this website, either
as webpages or viewable/downloadable files (.zip, .pdf., xls, etc.)
Some of my lines go back twelve generations or more to the Tudor period (C15th & C16th), however frustratingly my own family name of GRACE is the one line I know least about, being stuck in the early C19th with my 3xGGF (possibly a church orphan). This may require advanced genetic typing to find which surname family my GRACEs really belong - something that is ongoing, but with no immediate breakthrough expected, perhaps not in my lifetime. All my 2xGGPs are known, and almost all of my 3xGGPs, however some fathers will always remain nameless as that's the nature of life!
My genetic heritage is from the British Isles with 91% from long-established (i.e. by C19th) English families, with the most recent "non-English" genetic input occurring with my 3xGGPs, with 2 parts C18th Scots Irish through McDONALD and 1 part C18th Welsh through MORDECAI. My genetic markers show that I am close to the Atlantic Modal Haplotype (AMH), which means my distant ancestry was part of the first group of Neolithic Western European hunter-gather and not part of the later immigrant farmers from the East. My haplogroup is close to those currently being defined as "Frisian", the North Sea islands off the Dutch coast.
At the 3xGGP level (32 ancestors), my county roots are split as below, which illustrates the basic (but not exclusively) English county focus of these webpages:
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8 parts Warwickshire, 4 parts Nottinghamshire, 4 parts Somerset 4 parts Staffordshire, 3 parts Gloucestershire, 2 parts Ireland (unknown counties), 1 part Derbyshire, 1 part Essex, 1 part Glamorgan (South Wales), 1 part Kent, 1 part Middlesex (incl. London), 1 part Worcestershire, & 1 part Yorkshire (West Riding).
While I have no proven connections to anyone really famous, the following historical notables are in my family tree -
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Rev. Dr. Robert James BATEMAN (my 7th cousin) - who went down with the "SS Titanic" and is portrayed in films as the preacher who leads the band as the ship is sinking;
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A possible family connection through BIDMEAD, with many independent family tales of a direct connection, to the pirate and later Governor of Jamaica Sir Henry MORGAN (nice story, but unproven!).
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A BIDMEAD-signed C19th watch mechanism made in Coventry;
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"Bishop" CRISP - a local character recorded in 1790's Nottingham;
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Sarah DUFFKIN - from about 1720 in London, the maidservant of the celebrated and scandalous novelist Mary de la Rivière MANLEY;
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HORNBUCKLE & other C17th Nottinghamshire families who were early settlers in Virginia, a descendant of whom married a native American Cherokee in 1841.
Sampson PHIPPS - member of the famous rescue squad of 1735 who rescued three men and a boy entombed for 10 days and nights in Two Mile Hill coal mine, Kingswood, near Bristol;
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SANDERS - a noted Victorian family of Leicestershire gunmakers, with a gentleman's pistol stamped with their mark in the Oakham Museum;
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SANDERS - a group of Victorian and earlier Coventry clock & watchmakers;
Errol Leslie SANDERS - employee and part-time actor with the RKO Studios in 1930/40's Hollywood;
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Capt. George SHELVOCKE - C18th privateer and author;
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George SHELVOCKE, his son, C18th Postmaster General of the Post Office, London;
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George SHIERS (1662). An English knight for only 9 months before dying aged 25 - probably one of the shortest baronets in English history, whose mother's money formed a foundation for Exeter College, Oxford University. A charity bearing his name exists today.
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Two daughters of my North Worcestershire WHITAKER family married John TAYLOR, 3rd President of the C19th LDS (Mormon) church in Salt lake City, Utah;
My wife has 100% Irish roots - her ancestral families are also listed here.
Some family trees are poorly understood and I am seeking contacts with those who may have information to exchange. Others are well researched or have a great amount of data including many local One Name Studies (ONS) [BATEMAN, BICKNALL/BICKNELL, BIDMEAD, BLATHERWICK, BODEN, CRISP, DUGARD, GARLAND, MONKS, PHIPPS, VARLEY] two Worldwide ONS (for SHELVOCK/SHELVOKE/SHILVOCK and POPPLEWELL), and contacts/links to other ONS.
Data and research links are continually being added, so even if this Index and associated pages are not complete and you feel there may be a connection, or you'd like your genealogical webpage linked to a specific family page, then let me know. Feel free to link any of my pages to your own, submit my page to a search engine, or email me with comments/webpage or link problems.
If your are a member of Ancestry or GenesReunited then you can review the basic "CreativeGraces.net" online tree. More family detail and stories can be found within this website.
All data attaching various surname pages are made available on the understanding that any additions, corrections and new links will be reported back to help other researchers. Thanks.
I hope you find the resources listed here useful.
Best
regards, Mark A. S. Grace
The Geneal Geologist
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