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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.
Congratulations to my cousin Diana for being awarded the OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours in June. Both my daughters have young children, so there are new branches of the family to be added to this web site. Helpful information from family members plus the results of further research are being used to add, in alphabetical order, the Blake, Joiner, McCallion and Williams families for my grandchildren, and this will be a priority, probably for the rest of the year. Numerous small changes are also being made as recent census data and new records provide actual as opposed to estimated dates.
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Geoffrey H Henderson
North Yorkshire, England, 8 August 2012
The following surnames are included in this site. Click on any highlighted one to obtain further information. In the case of a surname without a link, select Family Tree in the Main Menu instead.
| Surname | No. of primary (total) entries |
Comments and earliest date |
|---|---|---|
|
Beams |
(8) |
c1794 in Lechlade, Arlington and Bibury, Gloucestershire. |
|
Bowman |
(9) |
1801 in Ireland. |
|
Bowring |
(7) |
c1803 in Dorset. |
|
Boyd |
(4) |
c1845 in Co.Tyrone and then Co.Donegal. |
|
1 (11) |
c1791 in South East & East London. | |
| 1 (3) | 1919. | |
|
Brydges |
(14) |
c1811 in East Anglia. |
|
Burt |
(1) |
c1825 in Glasgow. |
|
2 (6) |
c1742 in Abbotshall, Fife, Scotland. | |
|
Caldwell |
(2) |
c1742 in Co.Donegal, Ireland. |
|
12 (98) |
c1579 in Falmer and then Brighton, Sussex, England. | |
|
2 (33) |
c1809 in Kent and later London. | |
|
13 (95) |
Variant spellings: Coghran, Cochran. Probably of Scottish descent, but first recorded ancestor born in c1690 in Co.Donegal, Ireland. | |
|
2 (5) |
c1712 in Ireland. | |
|
12 (128) |
Variant spellings: de Crawfurd, Crawfurd. c1140 in Scotland. Settled in Co.Donegal, Ireland after 1610. Various family members emigrated to England, Canada, USA, and other countries. | |
|
Cromley |
(1) | c1791 in Ireland. |
|
2 (3) |
c1944. | |
|
Delap |
(2) |
c1708 in Ireland (probably Sligo). |
|
3 (22) |
c1752 in Weybridge, Surrey, England. | |
|
Ellis |
(14) | c1818 in Co.Donegal, Ireland |
|
1 (4) |
c1706 in Ireland. | |
|
5 (29) |
Variant spelling: Franklin. c1759 in East London - Birth and Marriage Records in Shoreditch, etc. | |
|
1 |
1883 in London and SE England. | |
| 1 (2) | 1953. | |
|
Grove |
(3) |
c1716 in Ireland. |
|
Hacker |
(4) |
c1831. Wiltshire, then East London. |
|
3 (13) |
c1767. Variant spelling: Hally. 1792 marriage recorded in Abbotshall, Fife, Scotland. Some family then moved to Kinghorn. | |
|
18 (45) |
c1746. 1771 marriage recorded in Abbotshall, Fife, Scotland. Some family moved to England. | |
|
1 (6) |
c1849 in Germany. Became Naturalised British Subject. | |
|
Humphreys |
(7) | c1827 in Ireland. |
|
2 (5) |
c1776 in Kinghorn, Fife, Scotland. | |
|
1 (32) |
c1811 in Sussex, Essex, North Yorkshire and then London - married HENDERSON. | |
|
10 (50) |
c1688 in Ireland - intermarried with the Cochranes. | |
|
3 (68) |
c1759 in Ireland and emigrated to New Zealand in 1870s. Also unrelated in USA. | |
|
2 (6) |
c1821 in Glasgow. | |
|
McIlwaine |
(2) |
Variant spellings: Makelwaine, McElwaine. c1701 in Ireland. |
|
McMahon |
(1) |
c1765 in Ireland. |
|
1 |
c1780 in Kinghorn, Fife, Scotland. | |
|
1 |
c1710 in Abbotshall, Fife, Scotland. | |
|
Neilson |
(26) | c1725 in Co.Donegal; then USA. |
|
3 (63) |
c1745 in Norfolk and then early 1800s in East London. | |
|
Olphert |
(3) |
c1710 in Ireland. |
|
5 (19) |
c1793 in East London - Birth and Marriage Records in Hoxton, Hackney and Southwark. Moved to Taunton, Somerset. Emigration in early 1900s: brother to White Rock, BC, Canada; another brother to Kelso, Wa, USA; sister (having baby) to USA "disappeared". | |
| 5 | c1694 in Co.Donegal, Ireland - intermarried with the Crawfords. | |
|
Raeburn |
(9) |
c1813 in Banff, Scotland and then emigrated to Canada. |
|
13 (48) |
c1733 in Isle of Wight, Hampshire and Brighton, Sussex, England. | |
|
2 (3) |
c1932. | |
|
1 (16) |
c1822 in Berkshire, England. | |
|
Sargent |
(8) | c1811 in Essex, England. |
|
Shrivell |
(16) |
c1648 in Brighton. |
|
2 (4) |
c1706 in Abbotshall, Fife, Scotland. | |
|
1 |
c1729 in Abbotshall, Fife, Scotland. | |
|
Stubbs |
(8) |
c1804 in Co.Donegal, Ireland. |
|
Style |
(20) | c1699 in Co.Donegal, Ireland |
|
Sullivan |
(5) |
c1804 in London. |
|
2 (7) |
c1725 in Abbotshall, Fife, Scotland. | |
|
Wackett |
(14) |
c1787 in Enfield, Middlesex. |
|
Warren |
(24) |
c1801 in Co.Cork and later Co.Donegal, Ireland - married CRAWFORD. |
|
Warren |
(12) |
c1835 in Wickham St Paul, Essex - married JOINER. |
|
1 (4) |
c1947 - married HENDERSON. | |
|
2 (4) |
1942 in Chester; other unrelated. |
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| c1956 | "circa" - the date is generally documented as 1956 but there may be an error of a year or so. |
| a1956 | "about" - possibly from a verbal source, the date is generally thought to be 1956 but there may be an error of a few years. |
| e1956 | "estimated" - an estimate based on some known fact (eg a date of birth estimated from a known marriage date). Not particularly accurate, but it will provide a rough guide; usually within 10 years. |
| (1956-) | thought to be alive. |
| (1956-?) | thought to be dead. |
| (dii) | died in infancy. |
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