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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.
As I now have two grandchildren, details are being added about their new branches, including Joiner and Williams.
Work is continuing on the Little family in Ireland and New Zealand. There is now the report of the trial of John Little for shooting (but not killing) his father Robert in 1846. Some photos remain to be added and further transcriptions of letters are scheduled to be done next year. Several surnames have been added to the Surname Table (click NORMAL FIND in the main menu above). With the availability online of free Irish Census records for 1901 and 1911, various gaps in the Cochranes, Crawfords and Littles are being filled in.
With the recent availability of 'almost' standards-compliant browsers (Firefox 9, Safari 5.1, Chrome 16, IE 9, etc), the opportunity is being taken, when pages are being added or updated, to bring them up to HTML5 and CSS3 standards. If you have been keeping your browser up to date automatically and therefore have the very latest browser, everything should 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. However, if you do not have an up to date browser, the new and recently updated pages of this web site 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 have a Happy New Year and enjoy visiting the site.
Geoffrey H Henderson
North Yorkshire, England, 11 January 2012
