All Our Barefoot Yesterdays

The purpose of this Blog. ( my very first ) is an  attempt to record MY Family History, it  is no more than a  very simple , personal endeavour  to keep a promise I made many, many years ago when I was asked by one of my three daughters the name of my Great Grandmother, it is NOT meant to be Controversial , if you don't like what I write, please remember that it is not compulsory to read it.

if anyone wishes to make any comments,  please feel  free to do so. but "please" no Foul Language,  if you are unable to make a comment without using Foul or Insulting Language, find another site. or consider writing your own Blog.

 I suddenly realised, I did,nt even know the name of my Grandmother, on either side of my Family, in fact none of my ancestors, sad but true. so I decided then and there I would try and record all the Family History I could discover, I am led to believe that  no one in the Family, had previously, ever attempted to keep a record, of  our Family History  some- where along the line , it has , been forgotten, lost, or buried. finding it again as been my task,  to delve into the world of Genealogy. I have found to be a very fascinating subject.

I have no intention of posting a complete Family History, which I honestly do not have, but only the main characters of Grandfathers, Grandmothers, Great Grandfathers , Great grandmothers  as best I can. I do have a great deal of Family Information which I feel would only be of interest to a family member.
Thanks to the Internet, I have managed to trace some ancestor's prior to the Napoleonic Wars.

What follows is a  very amateurish, but a very honest attempt to  record all the information I have been able to discover,  worts and all,  to the best of my ability, it can never be claimed to be 100% correct, it must be remembered that in the 1800's very few working class people could read or write , and at a church function, such as a  Marriage etc, if the Vicar or Priest  or whoever, entered the wrong spelling of a persons known name,in the register,  they were unable to raise any objection,  because they could not read,or write and therefore did not know what name had been recorded,  assuming , they had the nerve, no-one  or very few had the audacity to question a Priest, or Vicar,  and  up to very recently,  even your Doctor. 

I also intend to insert at appropriate dates, historical local snippets of interest.that may be of Interest.