This is where I store and share stories from my family history... a journey into my ancestral past discovering the stories behind the people and places that make me what I am today. Over the past few years I have discovered so many interesting descendants that I need to write down their stories so that they are never forgotten. This will be the story of sailors, soldiers, chainmakers, nailmakers, farmers, factory-workers, dressmakers, charwomen, agricultural labourers, carters, miners, etc, etc. They came from Dorset, Devon and Cornwall in the south west of England, from Belper in Derbyshire, from Staffordshire and the Industrial Black Country, from Jersey in the Channel islands and a few from Ireland too. Some of them can be traced back to Medieval times and even Norman ancestry...
I hope you will enjoy reading their stories as much as I have enjoyed uncovering them... these are my roots. my ancestral trails and my family tales ...
