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 research on the separate family pages. All relevant information researched by me or freely received is posted here for the benefit of all researchers. Please note that I no longer have any other data offline as all data is available on this website, either as webpages or as viewable and downloadable files (.zip, .pdf, xls, etc.), or on my various trees on Ancestry.com (user ID: masgrace). You will need approval for guest access by supplying an email address. The outlines given on these pages are indicative synopses only and not necessarily fully correct or complete (being updated only periodically). Please refer to the information on Ancestry, which is kept up to date on an almost daily basis. In any event, you are strongly recommended to do your own due diligence.
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 (most likely a church orphan). This will require advanced genetic typing using Y-DNA to find which surname family my GRACEs really belong to (ongoing as new tests become available). All my 2xGGPs are known, and almost all of my 3xGGPs, however some fathers will always remain nameless as that is 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/MORT.
My male 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-gatherers and not part of the later immigrant farmers. My genetic haplogroup is close to those currently being defined as "Frisian", who settled the North Sea islands off the Dutch coast before migrating to England.
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 each for Nottinghamshire, Somerset & Staffordshire, 3 parts Gloucestershire, 2 parts Ireland (unknown counties), 1 part each for Derbyshire, Essex, Glamorgan (South Wales), Kent, Middlesex (London), Worcestershire & Yorkshire or Lincolnshire.
While I have no proven connections to anyone really famous, the following historical notables can be found in my family tree -
: Rev. Dr. Robert James BATEMAN 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 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 & shotgun (amongst other period weapons) stamped with their mark;
: SANDERS - a group of Victorian and earlier Coventry clock & watchmakers. Family member 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 baronies 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 (both Catholic & Protestant) - her ancestral families are also listed here with some attempt at regional familial grouping.
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, BLATHERWICK, BODEN, CRISP, DUGARD (on Ancestry only), GARLAND, MONKS, PHIPPS, VARLEY] three Worldwide ONS (for SHELVOCK/SHELVOKE/SHILVOCK BIDMEAD and POPPLEWELL), and contacts/links to other ONS.
If you feel there may be a connection please get in contact. Feel free to link any of my pages to your own 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"
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 (most likely a church orphan). This will require advanced genetic typing using Y-DNA to find which surname family my GRACEs really belong to (ongoing as new tests become available). All my 2xGGPs are known, and almost all of my 3xGGPs, however some fathers will always remain nameless as that is 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/MORT.
My male 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-gatherers and not part of the later immigrant farmers. My genetic haplogroup is close to those currently being defined as "Frisian", who settled the North Sea islands off the Dutch coast before migrating to England.
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 each for Nottinghamshire, Somerset & Staffordshire, 3 parts Gloucestershire, 2 parts Ireland (unknown counties), 1 part each for Derbyshire, Essex, Glamorgan (South Wales), Kent, Middlesex (London), Worcestershire & Yorkshire or Lincolnshire.
While I have no proven connections to anyone really famous, the following historical notables can be found in my family tree -
: Rev. Dr. Robert James BATEMAN 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 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 & shotgun (amongst other period weapons) stamped with their mark;
: SANDERS - a group of Victorian and earlier Coventry clock & watchmakers. Family member 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 baronies 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 (both Catholic & Protestant) - her ancestral families are also listed here with some attempt at regional familial grouping.
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, BLATHERWICK, BODEN, CRISP, DUGARD (on Ancestry only), GARLAND, MONKS, PHIPPS, VARLEY] three Worldwide ONS (for SHELVOCK/SHELVOKE/SHILVOCK BIDMEAD and POPPLEWELL), and contacts/links to other ONS.
If you feel there may be a connection please get in contact. Feel free to link any of my pages to your own 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"
