Places
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Yorkshire, Dorset, London, Monmouthshire, Somerset, Essex, Derbyshire, Buckinghamshire…. these are just a few of the counties our forbears have lived in. An adage of genealogy states that until the advent of railways, families stayed in one place - not ours they didn’t! Rich or poor, people moved around, going where work, circumstances or opportunities took them, and our living cousins are scattered around the old British Empire - New Zealand, United States and Australia. I’m sure we’ll unearth more destinations! Chris’ mum was born in South Africa - I bet we have cousins there too.These pages are a little, personal, archive of the places our ancestors inhabited. |
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This is Sheffield Parish Church, now the Sheffield Cathedral. Jean was born in Sheffield, and is very proud of her heritage. Present-day Sheffield is the greenest city in the country, and a full third of it lies within the Peak District National Park. |
 Reproduced courtesy of The Francis Frith Collection. |
 Reproduced courtesy of The Francis Frith Collection. |
Chris was born in Poole, Dorset and our picture shows Poole Harbour just after the turn of the 20th century. We haven’t found anyone else in the tree who was born in Poole.Click here for the Poole & Area pages. |
| Becky was born in Bristol, a place that just oozes history. Unfortunately, the hospital she was born in (St. Michael’s, right), does not! Many of her ancestors were born and lived in Bristol.Click here for the Bristol pages. |  |