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- Welcome
& Overview -
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 have
stopped posting direct email links on webpages, but may be found
in attached documents in deconstructed form to avoid being picked
up by spambots. 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.). All pages
have the following notice:
The
outline above is indicative only and not necessarily fully
correct or complete.
The CreativeGraces family tree can be
found here on
Ancestry:
http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/pt/pedigree.aspx?tid=9072976
This
is where you can find the most up-to-date information.
You
will need approval for Guest access.
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:
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 -
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;
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!).
A
BIDMEAD-signed
C19th watch mechanism made in Coventry;
"Bishop"
CRISP -
a local character recorded in
1790's Nottingham;
Sarah
DUFFKIN -
from about 1720 in London, the maidservant of the celebrated and
scandalous novelist Mary de la Rivière MANLEY;
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;
SANDERS
- a noted Victorian family of
Leicestershire gunmakers, with a gentleman's pistol stamped with
their mark in the Oakham Museum;
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;
Capt.
George SHELVOCKE
- C18th privateer and author;
George
SHELVOCKE,
his son, C18th Postmaster General of the Post Office, London;
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.
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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