Meet The Families

Milligan Family

There is not a lot of information about the Milligan family in Scotland. Jack Milligan  said the Milligans were horse-thieves and cattle rustlers who went back and forth across the English border.  Other people are convinced that the name Milligan is Irish because it sounds like Mulligan. And here is a good possibility of a...

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Eaton Family

This marriage certificate answers s a number of family history questions. Thomas Eaton, Surgeon  of Attack Gun Vessel, married Mary Brown on August 21, 1798 at Stoke Damerel, Devon.  He signed his name and she made her mark (therefore she was not literate).  The marriage license was conducted by John Hawker, Curate, and the witnesses...

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Hewitt Family

Thomas Hewitt of St. Werburg, Derby and Mary Thalia Eaton, born in Stoke Damerel, Devonshire, were married March 29, 1830 in St. Mary's Church, Ilkeston, Derby. The wedding was conducted by Rev. Rich. Moxon, and the witnesses were Benjamin Hewitt (possibly father of the groom or cousin to Thomas Hewitt), Eliza Eaton (sister of the...

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White Family

The following two individuals ,William White (1819- 1901) and Mary Ann Smith  (1821-1869) were married October 14, 1841 at Stoke Charity Parish Church in the county of Southhampton . William's father is listed as David White, labourer. Mary Ann's father is Robert Smith, Painter.    John White was born in 1849 in Micheldever, Hampshire, the...

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Butterworth Family

Edmund Butterworth, banker's clerk, son of Thomas Butterworth, cotton spinner, and Mary Lord, daughter of James Lord and Sarah Bamford were married 19 February, 1840 at Rochdale, Lancashire. A description of James Lord, publican may be found at the following website: Todmorden and Walsden.  James was one of three sons who took over the family farm...

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Brindley Family

The Brindley Family in England Walter Brindley and Mary Badger were married 22 January 1845 in Gnosall, Staffordshire,England. Walter was the son of Robert Brindley and Ann [possibly Haynes] of Gnosall born c. 1812. Brindley is a very common name in that part of England. There is no known connection with James Brindley, the famous...

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Banks Family

Recollections by Hilda Mabel (White) Milligan "Alfred Banks (1828 - c. 1902) was the father of Elizabeth Kate Banks. He was a commercial traveller and was killed by a train while cutting through the railway yards on his way home from work at the age of 72. Grandma Banks visited the Butterworths on Tottenham Court...

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Hopper Family

Hannah Mary Hopper  was the daughter of  Henry Hopper and Mary Ann Pitcher, born in 1846 at Little Mongeham, Kent, England, one of at least four children (Sarah, Henry and Stephen). Henry Hopper was an agricultural labourer and shepherd. In the 1861 census Hannah Mary is a house servant for a family of eight children...

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Draper Family

The Draper family leads us to the "gypsy" connection that Granny White (Kate Elizabeth Butterworth) always claimed was on Granpa White's (Henry William White) side. Anna Maria Twelvetree  was supposed to have been the daughter of a tinker in the New Forest, which is near Dorset in Thomas Hardy country.  That's the story - here are...

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Hastings Family

The Hastings Family in Scotland  The old Scottish family of Hastings was a branch of the English Hastings family that settled in Scotland during the reign of William the Lion, King of Scotland from 1165 to 1214. The Hastings name predates the Norman Conquest of 1066 because the Castle of Hastings was held by the Hastings...

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McPherson – Bamford

Until recently Peter McPherson has been an elusive ancestor.  He was Annie McPherson's father, and for forty years, believed to be a United Empire Loyalist, or at least a U.E.L. sympathizer. In 1985,  UEL files turned up at the Quesnel Library. There was no way to photocopy the information, and I hand-wrote all the pages...

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