What started out as "keeping myself occupied" after a bout of ill health, family  history has now become an all consuming passion. From just trying to trace my  paternal Great grandmother Julia Ann Astle-Hoyle (known as Granny Wooster)to see  where she descended from it has snow balled and to date there are nearly 6,000 people  in my tree.
 From searching for family members, old and new, it has beome a study of social   history and geography and far from just tracing people I feel the need to know where  they travelled to, what employment they had, how their various chidren got on in life  and what the areas they were living in were like at the times they lived there.  So far from just having a main trunk and branches I want twigs and leaves - a  veritable forest maybe - and so follow many different lines of the families involved  in my past even if they are quite removed from my "main branch". The death of my dear brother Mike in 2008 has increased my resolve to continue to  research our shared heritage and to strengthen family ties.

1911 CENSUS

With the addition of the 1911 census I decided to add the information under "stories"  this is mainly because I did not want the information "lost" amongst all the  information already added under notes. Anyone who has a particular interest in finding  any of my relatives in 1911 please get in touch and I will try and help find them.