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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 website
rather than email addresses. From 2007 I am no longer posting new email links.
All relevant information researcher 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. I do not have any other data
offline as all data is available on this website, either
as webpages or downloadable files (.zip, .doc., xls).
Some of my lines go back twelve generations or more to the 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), and may require advanced genetic typing to find which family these 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!
My genetic heritage is 91% long-established English families, with the most recent "non-English" genetic input occurring with my 3xGGPs with probably 2 parts C18th Scots Irish (McDONALD) and 1 part C18th Welsh (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 being defined as "Frisian".
At the 3xGGP level (32 ancestors), my county roots are split as below, which illustrates the basic (not exclusively) English county focus on these webpages:
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8 parts Warwickshire, 4 parts each Nottinghamshire, Somerset & Staffordshire, 3 parts Gloucestershire, 2 parts Ireland or Scotland (unknown counties, probably originally Jacobean Scottish West Coast/Hebrides), 1 part each Derbyshire, Essex, Glamorgan (South Wales), Kent, Middlesex, Worcestershire, & Yorkshire (West Riding).
While I have no proven connections to anyone really famous, the following historical notables are connected to 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 to the BIDMEADs - many independent family tales of a direct connection to Sir Henry MORGAN (unproven);
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"Bishop" CRISP - a local character 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;
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;
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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;
The majority of my family names are patronymic, however several reflect Middle Age origins in the following places:
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Barton (Staffs.), Blatherwycke (Northants.), Bostock (Cheshire), Bradley (unknown county as name appears widely, poss. Derbys.), Dudley (Worcs./Staffs.), Gledhill (West Riding), Hemus (pre C17th Central/Eastern Europe, possibly even earlier Greece), Holbrook (Gloucs.), Knighton (var.), Lichfield (Staffs.), Morgan (Glamorgan), Popplewell (West Riding), Seaston (Notts.), Shelvock (Shropshire)
The following names have roots in local places, some of which may have been lost over time:
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Ashford, Bidmead, Brooke, Bush, Fairbank(s), Green, Hawthorn, Lane, Remington, Shaw, Varley
Family names related to occupations include:
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Cotterell, Faulks, Hayward, Osborne, Smith, Tucker, Wright
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.
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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