As at March 2008 there are 3,665 persons recorded in this database.  There is one ‘card’ for each family. Clicking on a name will take you to fuller information about that individual.  Some names or events show a miniature camera icon.  Clicking on this takes you to a multi-media page with photos or other material.

In the interests of privacy in the public version, contemporary persons are simply recorded by gender and with the word ‘private’.  This applies to persons borne after 1902 with no death date recorded or who died after 1960.  I have taken care to exclude all contemporary persons from the public version.  Should any have slipped through, please advise me.  The full version is available to family members only.

Following genealogical convention relationships are recorded when there has been a marriage (and now a civil partnership) or children, but not otherwise.

Surnames are capitalised THUS.  Females are recorded under their maiden name.  Where a woman’s maiden name is unknown, her spouse’s surname is used in square brackets [THUS].  Where a woman’s spouse’s family name is unknown the woman’s maiden name is used for him in curly brackets {THUS}, and any children are recorded under her maiden name {{THUS}}.

Where there is more than one person with the same name, I have applied a letter suffix to each [e.g. John RICHARDSON (b) ] to distinguish between them.  The suffix itself generally increases with later generations, but not invariably so, as when an earlier instance is discovered later.