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| NORMAL FIND | Enter via descriptive Surname Table (with a mini family tree when required). |
| FAMILY TREE | Display the complete, navigable Dynamic Family Tree. |
| INTRODUCTION | Infrequent or FIRST TIME visitors, please read these notes on using the site. |
| GALLERY | Collection of Documents, Pictures and Maps. |
| GLOSSARY | Explanation of unusual terms and unfamiliar places. |
| SITE SEARCH | Site Search Engine. |
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This site contains a history of the Henderson Family (c1746 in Abbotshall and Kinghorn, Fife, Scotland) and their links to the surnames Breach (c1791 in East London, England), Burt (Scotland), Carden (c1579 in Falmer, Sussex and then Brighton), Cochrane (c1690 in Co.Donegal, Ireland), Colhoun (Ireland), Crawford (c1110 in Clydesdale, Lanarkshire, Scotland and from c1610 in Co.Donegal, Ireland), Eastland (Weybridge, Surrey), Franckling (c1759 in East London), Hally (Scotland), Joiner (c1811 in Essex), Kincaid (c1680 in Ulster), Little (Ireland), McCallum (Scotland), Neilson (Co.Donegal, Ireland), Olley (c1745 in Norfolk and East London), Powell (East London and Taunton, Somerset), Purviance (Co.Donegal, Ireland), Redman (c1760 in Isle of Wight and Brighton, Sussex), Williams (c1947 in England) and many others.
This record of Family History tries to paint a broader picture than just the Genealogy of the Hendersons, and includes Social History (for example, shirt manufacturing in England and Northern Ireland, and descriptions of life in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries). Photographs of ancestors, family life, homes, cemeteries, etc are displayed to add interest to otherwise dry words. Several extracts from family trees are used to illustrate the lineage of a specific group and emigration is traced, through maps, to America, Canada, India, Mauritius, New Zealand, Trinidad and West and South Africa.
In April, Oracle issued a faulty update to the Java plug-in (version SE 6u31) for web browsers. This has since been corrected in later versions, but anyone with the defective browser plug-in will get a couple of warning messages when trying to access the FAMILY TREE from the menu button above. Nothing has been changed in the Dynamic Family Tree Java Program for at least eight years, so it is quite safe to ignore the erroneous warnings. For more details CLICK HERE.
Helpful information from family members plus the results of further research are being used to add the Williams, Blake, Joiner and McCallion families for my grandchildren, and this will be a priority for the next few months.
With today's 'almost' standards-compliant browsers (recent versions of Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Internet Explorer, etc), the opportunity is being taken, when pages are added or updated, to ensure they meet HTML5 and CSS3 standards; such pages have the red-five logo at the bottom. If you have been keeping your browser up to date automatically, everything should continue to work for you, but if you do notice any peculiarities with an up-to-date browser, please send an email to the webmaster address above, letting me know what browser you were using and on what page(s) the problem occurred. If you have not kept your browser up to date, the new HTML5 pages will NOT be displayed correctly. CLICK HERE for further details, as perhaps now might the time to update your browser. Different counters are being tested at the bottom of some pages (but you may ignore them!).
I hope you enjoy visiting the site.
Geoffrey H Henderson
North Yorkshire, England, 10 May 2012
