Pete and Wendy
Bradshaw's Family Tree Web Site
Who were Mercy Rash, Surrender Offen, Lettice Gotobed, Flowers Allpress, Fyll Tubb and Mary
Christmas..?
This is the family tree for Pete Bradshaw and Wendy Offen of Durham, England.
Find your link to our family in the complete alphabetical index of names.
The outline of this material was researched over many years by Pete's dad, the
late Maurice
Bradshaw, through interviews, the study of memorabilia and searches of
parish records and censuses (before there was an internet!). We have added to this from the IGI, the
censuses of England and Wales, the
general register office indexes plus other bits and pieces picked up on the
web.
Particular thanks is given to those who provided us with details from their own
research into their own families, especially: Cave, Lecomber, Macer, Offen,
Skelton, Skerman, Vinter, Waddelow and Wilderspin.
We are particularly concerned for the accuracy of those families where we have
more comprehensive coverage, e.g. Wilderspin, Skerman, Eversden, Nix, Offen,
Lecomber, Muncey, Holdstock (Beds), Tanton (Yorks), Hasnip (Lincs), Waddelow
(Cambs), Archer (Warks), Bradshaw (Cambs),... And all families living in Sutton, Cambs
Please e-mail 
if
you have any comments on details of the family tree, particular if you can
point out any errors.
Current burning issues are the birth details of: William Skelton (1764), John
Bennett (1795), William Cowdery (1775), William Ellwood
(1778), Daniel Cleverly (1680), John Friday (1735), Mary Brown (1774), John Way (1767), James W Weatherley (1750) and Rebecca Papworth (1766).
CONVENTIONS
We have published here every bit of information we have which links to us in
some way. Some of this we know is unproven, and this should be indicated by the
word "possibly" or a question mark. Sometimes we have included
alternative parents, or totally hypothetical ones, purely as a means of
including more names on the website. All dates are English style - dd/mm/yyyy.
For dates in Jan-Mar prior to the moving of
the year end from March to December in 1752 the higher number year has
been used if possible; some of these dates will be a year out, depending
how you look at it. Birth years derived from census returns try to estimate the
most likely year, e.g. someone who is 4 in 1851 would be given as born in 1846.
Other "birth" dates given are actually the last month of the quarter
year of registration, e.g. someone born at the end of March might be registered
in April and therefore have their birth given as June. To respect people's
privacy no details are given of persons born within the last 100 years and not
known to have died.
SOME LINKS TO MORE DETAILED SITES THAN THIS WHICH I HAVE USED
WILDERSPIN
http://www.porpoisehead.net/gedview/individual.php?pid=I941&ged=20050704_gates.ged
http://porpoisehead.net/gedview30/family.php?famid=F227
http://www.flackgenealogy.co.uk/flacktng/getperson.php?personID=I12232&tree=tree01
http://www.lythgoes.net/genealogy/demo5/pedigree.php?personID=I222&tree=&display=standard
http://www.kevin.bean.dsl.pipex.com/family_history/Ged2Web/people/p00000jd.htm
BRADSHAW
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Bluffs/2806/aqwg127.htm
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Bluffs/5380/pafg10.htm
FEARY
http://www.oakingtonplane.co.uk/
CAVE
http://www.cave-fhs.org.uk/caves_home_page.htm
WADDELOW
http://www.geocities.com/waddelowsociety/
OFFEN
http://cheryl2003.topcities.com/offenindex.html
PAPWORTH
http://website.lineone.net/~nicjcox/papworth
WALLER
http://gen.talentedpeople.com.au