I have split my current discussion of the Willetts of Colchester into two posts:
This article is fairly long and detailed – a briefer post about Willett Antecedents summarises some of the relationships.
(more…)Taking stock of questions to research, itches to scratch, and development work to do.
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Other posts have made reference to the half-family arising from Catherine Blaylock marrying two Robert Faulders and to the intertwining of various families mainly in North Cumberland in the 18th and 19th Centuries.
This diagram (click on it to see it full size) shows some of the links that have been established.
Faulder and associated families: marriages around the 18th and 19th Centuries (click for full-size image)
The early Willetts take a bit of disentangling due to second marriages and marriages to other Willetts. What follows is a summary; there is a more detailed explanation with references on another post. (more…)
Investigating other surnames marrying into the Family – particularly where there are two people of a particular surname marrying in – raising the question as to whether they are related.
(Comments of the “Are we related” type (much welcomed) are being collated on a collection of “Are we related?” pages.)
Where surnames crop up a number of times, I want to know if they are related to each other (for instance have two brothers married two sisters). This Chart of Surnames
shows how some of the families are interweaved. (more…)
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