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Summery

This Web Site charts the family tree of a Family from the Weald of Kent (UK). Most of them are farmers and agricultural labourers. Although 1 branch of the family comes from Bradford, Scotland & Germany, who were involved in the Cloth Trade (Stuff Manufacturers, Stuff Merchants and Drapers).

Structure

This site is composed of “Family Sheets” where all that is known about each family is recorded. The Sheets first have a graphical representation of the family, followed by a table listing each member of that family – recording name, birthdate, birthplace, and where they were on each census, and what their job was if recorded. Any visitors are also listed. Below the table, is noted all other information known – Parish Records, Birth Certificates, Marriage Certificates, Death Certificates, IGI information etc. The Family Sheets are linked by Hyperlinks, travelling into the past through the parent’s links to their parents families, and the future through the children. So just click on the parents names to travel back to their ancestors.

For a key into reading Family Sheets click here

Notes

Could anyone who has any photo's or information that would help this family history,or would like to talk about family tree research, please use the “Contact” link above – Thanks!

Family Names

To save some aimeless wandering through the maze of hyperlinks, I’ll list here the most recent sheets of the main family names :-

Backhouse Binns Bower Brooke Butler Colegate Cornes Cornelius
Coleman Cumber Day Daynes Diprose Downe Drury Dunke
Fever Gibson Groombridge Hayter Heron Hinkley Holdsworth Homewood (smarden)
Homewood (woodchurch) Hollier Hydor James Jell Kadwell Kingsnorth Koster
Langley Marshall Michael Munk Offen Paine Pattenden Puxty [1]
Rofe Russell Skinner Small Thrift Tolehurst Tyler Weare
Weddle [2] Weller Wilkins Willard Wood Wratten Anderson(P) Batt
Weaver Else Kirkham(P) Mellor(P) Phillips(P) Walker(P) Craft(P) Davies(P)

[1] Puxty, also known as Puxted
[2] Weddle, also known as Woddle, Waddle, Widdle, Waddell

To connect to my Family Sheet, press here - Dave Russell Family Sheet

To connect to my Wife's Family Sheet, press here - A Peak District Family

Census Transcripts

Here are my census record transcripts. They list the names, age, relationship,marital status, job and birthplace for each person living in each house. These transcripts only list the households that contain family members.

Census transcripts for village and towns.

Family Trees

Click on Trees below to see sections of my Family Tree.
For a key into reading the Tree's, click here

Family Tree A - Russell's
Family Tree B - Weller's & Puxty's
Family Tree C - Willard's, Marshall's, Coleman's & Tolehurst's
Family Tree D - Puxty's & Weddle's
Family Tree E - Hinkley's, Groombridge's & Hider's
Family Tree F - Butler's, Diprose's, Rofe's & Daynes's
Family Tree G - Wratten's, Small's, Tyler's, Homewood's & Skinner's
Family Tree H - Current Generations Tree
Family Tree J - Backhouse's
Family Tree K - Backhaus's, Koster's, Binn's, Bower's, Holdsworth's & Heron's
Family Tree L - Watson's
Family Tree M - Homewood's
Family Tree N - Homewood's, Offen's, Wood's, Munk's, Jarvis's
Family Tree P - Wood's, Day's, Langley's
Family Tree Q - Thrift's, Kadwell's, Cornes's, Jell's, Paine's
Family Tree R - Thrift's, Brook's, Pattenden's, Dunke's
Family Tree S (my Wife, Carol's Tree) Mellor's, Walker's, Phillip's, Kirkham's, Lloyd's, Fletcher's
Family Tree T - Day's, Cornelius's, Gibson's, Wilkins
Family Tree U - (my Wife, Carol's Tree) Anderson's, Davies's, Craft's
Family Tree V - Russell's, Friends's, Waters's, Batt's, Else's, Weaver's
Cousins in the Smarden Area - how many 1st cousin marraiges can you spot?

Click Here for Bloodline Chart in PDF Format . Use your applications zoom and pan controls to navigate chart.

Parish Church Photographs

Benenden Church
Boughton Malheibe Church
Frittenden Church
Goudhurst Church
Hawkhurst Church
High Halden Church
Rolvenden Church
Sandhurst Church
Ticehurst Church
Cranbrook Church

Unknown People

This Album is full of people who have lost their identity. These photos belong to Ada Butler who married "Jack" Russell in Cranbrook, Kent.
If anyone can identify any of them, please let me know through the contact button above.

Exhibition at Cranbrook Museum 2007

I'm a member of The Cranbrook & District Local History Society, and in 2007 I was privilaged to Exhibit a Display of my family tree at the Town Museum. The main Trees were drawn on Autocad, and printed in colour. Additional sheets were created showing photos of my ancestors, or case studies of ancestors and how they were found. Also sheets were drawn up helping people new to the hobby on how to find there Ancestors. I had a lot of fun putting it on, and I hope people found it interesting.

Exhibition Photos

Family Photograph of the Russell's and Backhouse's

Family Photograph of the Backhouses at Dymnchurch 1934 - see Frederick Backhaus's family sheet for details.

Revisions:

Nov 2007 Addition of Hollier (Holyer) family from Woodchurch : sheets 117 & 118.
Tentative addition of Hooker, Ware, George, Smythe, Kingswood & Beall families to Sheet 112 (Richard Offen b.1768, Smarden)
Dec 2007 Addition of sheet S137 for George Wood & Family. Son of Horace Wood, who joined the 5th Dragoon Guards and fought in the Boer War.
April 2008 A63 John Diprose revised & updated – ancestors back to early 1600’s added.
S01 John Russell – revised & updated – children added. Small family added.
A64 George Wratten revised & updated. Daw family added.
April 2008 Daw family deleted – connection proved to be groundless.
May 2008 Hider family updated and revised. Day family updated and revised.
July 2008 Thrift family updated. Site relocated to HTTP://family-tree-russell.co.uk
July 2008 Brooke, Cumber, Pattenden, Dunke & James families added.
Aug 2008 Kingsnorth and Downe families added.
Aug 2008 Birth, Death & Marraige Certificates added.
Aug 2008 Photograph's added. Sheets reformatted.
Sept 2008 Military Records of George Wood added.
Sept 2008 Family Tree's added
Nov 2008 Photograph of George Homewood's family added
Will of Elizabeth Ann Homewood added.
Tenantcy Agreement for Haffenden Farm added (go to Edward Homewood's (b.1823, Smarden) family sheet)
Jan 2009 1911 Census Returns added. Family Sheets updated
Jan 2009 Extra Photo of Edward John Russell added.
Photo's of John & Rachel Butler added.
Jan 2009 Extra Photo's of my father Peter Edward John Russell added
Mar 2009 Photo's of Parish Churches added
Apr 2009 Items from the London Gazette added, including Deed Pole Declaration of Frederick Backhaus.
Apr 2009 Trees revised.
Apr 2009 Puxty's & Weddle's updated.
May 2009 Mortgage of Castweazle Farm added (A36, Edward Homewood)
May 2009 my wife Carol Walker's Family Tree ["A Peak District Family"] added
July 2009 Skinner family revised.
Sept 2009 Cyril Russell's War Recollections added.
Sept 2009 Mellors & Kirkhams revised.
Oct 2009 Homewoods revised.
Oct 2009 William Homewood Offen Family Sheet added
Nov 2009 Frank Wood's War Records added added
Nov 2009 Exhibition at Cranbrook Museum added
Dec 2009 Extra ancestor families added to Wood Family
Jan 2010 Skinner family updated
Feb 2010 Backhouse Family photo added.
Mar 2010 Wood & Homewood family sheets added
Mar 2010 Rofe Family revised and Family Tree F
Apr 2010 Russell & Butler photos added.
Apr 2010 "Unknown" Photos added
Apr 2010 Homewood farm auction catalogues added
August 2010 Will summeries from "The National Probate Calendar, 1861-1941" added
September 2010 Ethan Joel Palmer added to Family Tree H
October 2010 Birth Certificates added for Edward Homewood & Mary Willard
November 2010 Photographs and details of the Bower Family added.
November 2010 Walker family updated including cemsus returns and the true identity of "Charles Edward Walker"
November 2010 Photo added of Edward and Sarah Ann Butler (Diprose)
January 2011 more Bower photos added
March 2011 All pages now re-written in HTML with new graphics, pictures, etc.
March 2011 Family Tree T added. PDF versions of Tree's added (you can now zoom into trees to see detail - yay!!), Links added between family sheets and family trees.
March 2011 Mahala Weeks (Puxty) 's Sheet [S147] added.
April 2011 More Homewod & Wood photo's added. including Alice Reeve (Wood) & Fanny Farrance (Wood) family photo's
May 2011 Photos of Emma Mellor; William & Edith Mellor added. Carols family tree updated
July 2011 Binns family expanded, due to release of yorkshire parish records on internet
August 2011 Happy Waddle's family added to site
December 2011 Booth's, Hancock's and Gidman's added to my wifes tree
December 2011 Anderson's, Davies's, Craft's, Chipp's added to my wifes tree
January 2012 Lilly Booth of Congleton disproved to be our Lillian May Booth by Carole Galley of New Zealand. Records deleted accordingly.
February 2012 additional census records for Esther Russell, William Thrift, Robert Kadwell.
February 2012 added Weller family sheets
March 2012 Hollie Jasmine Coley added to Tree J
March 2012 Grace Homewood family sheet added (S154)
March 2012 Elizabeth Russell (Homewood) family sheet added (S155)
March 2012 Ann Hosmer (Homewood) family sheet added (S156)
April 2012 Paper clipping added to Grace Homewood family sheet (S154)
April 2012 Bloodline Chart added
May 2012 Family of Mark Turl & Mary Ann Butler added.
June 2012 Family of John Wenbourne & Ann Russell added.
June 2012 1911 census sheets added.
July 2012 additional backhouse photos added
July 2012 family trees revised
Aug 2012 census transcripts added. "Finally!!"
Aug 2012 Batt, Weaver & Else families added.
Oct 2012 additional sibling sheets (S167-175) added, plus many more 1911 census returns
Oct 2012 The story of the Homewood-Hopper's (S158) advanced due to help of Jennifer Stark - many thanks
Nov 2012 More Farrance Photos due to help of Sam Bridgeland - thanks
Made 26 August 2008
by Dave Russell.