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 Coleman
Cumber Day Daynes Diprose Downe Drury Dunke Fever
Groombridge Hayter Heron Hinkley Holdsworth Homewood (smarden) Homewood (woodchurch) Hollier
Hydor James Jell Kadwell Kingsnorth Koster Langley Marshall
Michael Munk Offen Paine Pattenden Puxty Rofe Russell
Skinner Small Thrift Tolehurst Tyler Weare Weddle Weller
Willard Wood Wratten Anderson(P) Mellor(P) Phillips(P) Kirkham(P) Walker(P)

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

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
Family Tree B
Family Tree C
Family Tree D
Family Tree E
Family Tree F
Family Tree G
Family Tree H
Family Tree J
Family Tree K
Family Tree L
Family Tree M
Family Tree N
Family Tree P
Family Tree Q
Family Tree R
Family Tree S (my Wife, Carol's Tree)
Cousins in the Smarden Area - how many 1st cousin marraiges can you spot?

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

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


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
Made 26 August 2008
by Dave Russell.