Taking stock of questions to research, itches to scratch, and development work to do.
Contents
- Family Reconstructions
- Specific People
- Website Development
24 March, 2016
25 May, 2015
The Willetts of Colchester, Essex (and Daylight Saving) 1 of 2
The change to and from British Summer Time can bring about a flurry of interest in William Willett, the original advocate in Britain of Daylight Saving. He was the eldest son of another William Willett. For some reason this spring Google and that ilk have pointed a larger number of people than usual towards this family blog. Some of them have familiar family stories about being related to “Daylight Saving” Willett.
In addition another comment by a relative (about William Willett senior – Daylight Saving Willett’s father – running away from his step-mother) has prompted me to re-examine “the top” of the Willett tree as I have previously understood it.
(more…)15 April, 2014
Faulder Family – England and Wales Distribution
Although I have been concentrating on my own line of Faulders (who I can trace back to North Cumberland in 1754), I am taking an interest in other lines because they may eventually give a clue to my line further back.
I have also been working with GenMap UK an application that will map Genealogical Data. This has helped me get a view of where there are major groups of Faulders. (more…)
21 December, 2010
Research Note: Google Ngrams
(This post is more in the nature of a genealogy diary entry or research note discussing a potential line of interesting research.)
Google in their attempt to “capture all information”, have been digitalising huge numbers of mainly out of copyright books (more than 5.2 million). Now they have introduced a tool to try and analyse this corpus of data: Google NGrams. This allows you to graph by date of publication the occurrence of a word (or even selection of words).
So for a genealogist, the logical thing to do is ego-surf – stick your own surname in the tool and see what comes out. (more…)
18 August, 2010
Tom Clark’s Family Album (all believed deceased)
Believed to Be Thomas Clark
Photos (together with reverses to aid locating & dating) in the Album originally owned by Tom Clark (now in care of Liz Clark*). Families likely to be Clark, Pearson, Faulder, Sewell. In addition other names (e.g. Telford, Pattinson, James) linked to the family appear in the album. (more…)
Marjorie Fell Faulder (née Lendrum)’s WW1 scrapbook
Harold and Marjorie Faulder at Holy Trinity, Huddersfield on their Wedding Day
Marjorie Fell Faulder (née Lendrum)’s scrapbook based on her husband Harold’s service in World War 1
Picasa Photo Album
This contains photographs, postcards and newspaper cuttings meticulously filed until April 1918. Marjorie Faulder was my Grandmother.
William Willett (b 1856): Advocate of Daylight Saving
William Willett is most memorable as the advocate of Daylight Saving or British Summer Time. He was the eldest son of my Great Great Grandfather (through my mother’s adoptive line), also William Willett, who started the building company.
(more…)Potential Ancestral Links to the Hertfordshire based Faulders.
There seem to be two main clusters of “original” Faulders:
- Our one in Cumberland
- Another in Hertfordshire
Everyone seem to trace back to one of these two areas. It will be interesting to see if they are linked at some point in history.
The origin of the Faulder family
Widespread belief that the Faulder family is from Southern Scotland
- Emigrated possibly during time of the Covenanters
(1638 onwards) - A number of signet rings in the family have an image of a flaming beacon.
- Belief that the family may have been involved in maintaining Armada beacons.
- However, beacons were also used in the north to warn of Scottish invasion.
- Beacons could also have been those used for navigation assistance.
- Others have suggested a reference to pillaging by Reivers.
The family links with the Woollen trade in Yorkshire, especially Huddersfield
There are various members of the family who have been involved in various aspects of the textile industry, most notably with the Woollen Industry in Yorkshire in particular the firm of Stothart & Faulder 
in John William Street, Huddersfield
. (more…)
