Meandering Through Time
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    • Bustaine of Braunton: Introduction
    • Hunt of Barnstaple Introduction >
      • Christopher Hunt >
        • Edward Hunt >
          • Richard Hunt >
            • Richard Hunt
            • Mary Hunt
    • Lakeman of Mevagissey >
      • Peter Lakeman c1698-1740
    • Meavy Introduction >
      • 6th to 9th Century Meavy >
        • Meavy Pre Conquest >
          • 1066 and Life in Domesday England >
            • Domesday and 13th Century Charters >
              • The Anarchy >
                • Walter, Wido and William Meavy >
                  • The Beginnings of a New Era
    • Mitchell of Crantock: An Introduction >
      • William Mitchell of Crantock >
        • Samuel Mitchell of Crantock >
          • Edith Mitchell >
            • Epilogue: Lescliston Farm
    • Mohun of Dunster: Introduction >
      • William Mohun c1050 - c1111 >
        • William Mohun c1100 - c1143 >
          • William Mohun - 1176 >
            • William - 1193 >
              • Reynold Mohun c1183 - 1213
              • Reynold Mohun c1210 -1257 >
                • Alice Mohun
    • Purches of Hampshire and Cornwall >
      • Samuel Purches 1733 - 1804 >
        • Samuel Purches 1766 - >
          • William Samuel Purches 1803 - 1861 >
            • Henry James Purches
    • Scoboryo of St Columb Major >
      • James and Joan Scoboryo 1640 - 1686
    • Thomas Vaughan: An Introduction >
      • Chapter One: Monmouthshire, Wales.
      • Chapter Two: The Beaufort Patronage
      • ​Chapter Three: Out With the Old
      • Chapter Four: Kentish Connections and Opportunities >
        • Chapter Five: Getting Personal
        • Chapter Six: ​The Children of Thomas Vaughan
        • Chapter Seven: Moving on
        • ​Chapter Eight: At Ludlow
        • Chapter Nine: The Arrest
        • Chapter Ten: Three Castles
        • Chapter Eleven: The Beginning of the End
        • Chapter Twelve: A Death Deserved ?
    • Smith of Barkby Introduction >
      • Susanna Smith
    • Taylor Introduction >
      • Joseph Taylor >
        • John Henry Taylor
    • Tosny of Normandy >
      • Godehute de Tosny
    • Toon of Leicestershire: Introduction >
      • John Toon 1799 -
      • Thomas Toon 1827 - 1874
    • Underwood of Coleorton Introduction
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  • The Ancestors
  • A to E
  • F to J
  • K to O
  • P to T
  • U to Z
  • Hendley of Coursehorne Kent
    • 5th to 12th Century Hendleys >
      • Gervais Hendley 1302 - c1344 >
        • Thomas Hendley >
          • Grevais Hendley c 1471 - 1534 >
            • Walter Hendley >
              • Elizabeth Hendley >
                • Ellen Hendley 1521- 1560 >
                  • Anne Hendley 1523 - >
                    • Other Hendleys
  • Pigott Family of Whaddon Buckinghamshire
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The Ancestors​
​Noun: A person, typically one more remote than a grandparent, from whom one is descended.
(Please note my family history is work in progress and may not appear here yet, but do not let that stop you, if you are interested just drop me an email.)
Surnames
A to E
F to J
K to O
P to T
U to Z

Hiding behind the buttons above are all my ancestors, most of my family can be traced to around the middle of the 16th century, however through my 3x great grandmothers family I am able to take exciting steps into England's landed gentry, on though its nobility and finally its royal family, whose ancestry of course is well documented. After that, it is easy to trace my ancestry back to the Norman Conquests to the generation of my 28th great grandparents.
 

Why not click on any of the links and see where you end up.
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My family history ranges from my 2 x great grandparents right up to my 23 x great grandparents and my nine 'foundation' families lived all their lives in five of our English counties.
3 were from Cornwall 
3 were from Yorkshire
1 was from Leicestershire
2 were from London ​
From these four counties I branch out into Devon and Somerset, Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Shropshire and Hampshire. 

A very interesting question that is often asked is how many direct ancestors (grandparents, great grandparents and so on) do all of us have? It is over nine hundred years since the Normans invaded our shores, we can say, more or less, that there would have been fifty generations of people who would have lived and died to get us to the present day. This is worked out on an average of twenty years between each generation, that's an awful lot of people in 1000 years.

So with a quick click of the calculator we can say that every person has 64  7x great grandparents and 134,217,728   28 x great grandparents. Of course this figure only applies if no one married a relative!

If we all stop at the 34th great grandparent, and no one's ancestor married one of their own, the number of direct ancestors would be 8,589,934,592 persons, which is more than the entire current population of the world!
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