Welcome to my website which I have created to record & publish the results of my research into my family history & my family tree.

We aim to know If long ago Our forefathers honours carried And if they came In time to fame And whom the maids they married.

Following a loss of service from my previous hosts, this is a brand new website set up in July 2008. It is still under construction in parts.

Individual pages for the four main family names can be accessed from the links on this page, and pages for several of the other related families are accessed from the Other Families page. Each page contains some narrative on the relevant family together with a Descendancy report covering the earlier generations.

'Biographies' have been included for some of the individuals and I hope to add to these. The other pages & links are self explanatory.

The main links are at the top & the sub page links are on the left.

Over the years I have often thought about doing my family tree but never got round to it, or even knew how to. Only when I became aware in 2004 that the 1901 English Census had been published did I start looking into it & found my grandmother's family in Tow Law, Co Durham. After that I just kept digging.

The research & this webside 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 familes 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 the age of 4 months 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 located to 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, marrige & death indices, and there have been numerous visits to records offices, archives, registary 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 necesary.

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 .

terry creaney

Email me:  tc@creaney.net