I have been working on my family history for several years now. My research & this website have been done mainly for my own pleasure and curiosity, but also for the interest (& amusement) of other family members both now and in the future. And for anybody else who may stumble across it you are most welcome, should you be related to any of our families I would be delighted to hear from you.

Although I was born in London, I only stayed there briefly as a baby, returning to Belfast at a few months old. I lived & grew up in Belfast & moved to County Down in my early 20s. I am now living in Manchester England having brought my family here in 1980 when I relocated from Northern Ireland.

Both of my parents are from Northern Ireland where 3 out of my 4 grandparents & their forebears had lived for generations. It is likely that these families migrated from Scotland to Ireland in the 1600s. They settled & lived in diverse parts of Northern Ireland but eventually their descendants gravitated towards Belfast in the early years of the twentieth century.

My fourth grandparent, my paternal grandmother came from the North East of England and moved to Ireland after meeting & marrying my grandfather in the early 1900s.

Research has taken place to some extent on the internet searching census returns and various birth, marriage & death indices, and there have been numerous visits to records offices, archives, registry offices, churches and graveyards, and I have been to some of the ancestral towns & villages. Information & memories have been sourced from my parents & other members of the extended family & I have met up with relatives not seen for nearly 40 years.

I have also gathered a number of Birth, Marriage & Death Certificates from the family as well as obtaining many others from the registration authorities whenever necessary.

On both sides of the water I have been lucky enough to come into contact with several distant cousins with whom I have been able to share information and expand my knowledge.

The data contained here is by no means the full extent of my research, it represents an overview only and the greater detail with sources etc is held in my personal records offline. Also, some of the later generations have been excluded here out of regard for their privacy, my records however contain many more descendents of our common ancestors.

The chart below shows myself, my parents & my grandparents. To help you understand the overall dimesions of the family tree you should refer to this full ANCESTOR CHART .

I do not claim copyright to this material but would be grateful if anyone with an interest who wishes to use it for their own purposes would please contact me and I will help in any way I can. I would also suggest that the information is not published or passed to others without first verifying the data back to it’s original sources.

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