Genealogy Chat

Same with my Norfolk relatives. My great great grandparents were cousins but one side had changed surname to the wife's name (very modern - or something to hide) and then my Esther Ewles married James Sudder and Alice Sudder his sister married Bertie Teun who was Esther's cousin as Bertie's mother was Emma Ewles. It all makes my head hurt I just know I found a lady on here I am related to lots of times!

Yes, once the railways came and people discovered they could move about more, they began marrying folk from further afield. My Warwicks gt x 3 grandparents don't appear to have set foot outside their home village in their entire life - except to troll down to the register office when they had a child! nell

Dea I have Stubbs, Lawtons and Greens, all in a small village in Cheshire. They had eyes for no one else for 15 generations! Starting with my 15 GGPs, they met up again in my 13 GGPs, 10 GGPs, 7GGPs and 3 GGPs. A 13 GGP met up again in 7 GGPs, 5 GGPs and 2 GGPs. Thats not counting all the siblings who intermarried as well. Mind you, very obliging of them - where I would have normally needed a whole roll of wallpaper to show this amny generations, in fact it all fits on 2 A4 size bits of paper! They stayed put in their respective farmhouses and left me Wills, and they were inspired to call the girls Parnell and Damaris, and the boys Jared and Henshaw - what a joy! Let's hear it for interbreeding, I say. Olde Crone

Are there any particularly prominent ones I could contact, and how? Dea x

LOL Dea!!! My other half said loads of Chesters were in his school............both surnames take up quite a few pages in the phone book!! Sarah :)

ARE THEY??? DO tell me what you know. Dea Xxx

Hi Dea I'm in Cheshire and Chesters and Richardson are still 2 very big families in the area!!! Sarah :)

It happens a lot in my Northumbrian families - Hall, Hedley, & Armorer, with the odd Arkle thrown in for good measure. I commented on this to a distant cousin who was apparently told by someone still living in that area, that the Armorers always married their cousins! Its great fun trying to sort them all out - they all gave their children the same christian names too! I believe it was more usual amongst landowners, as that way they kept everything within a few close families.

I have the following families all in Cheshire, who methodically intermarry and interbreed - The names are - Richardson, Hickton, Kent, Chesters + Percival. Does anyone have any of these names that they are searching for?? Dea x

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