Bob and Anne's Family History
LATEST : 4 May 2008 - Calvert tree updated with ancestors of Abraham Shaw (1785-1857).
The site contains family history information relating to my and
my wife's ancestors.
The Calverts
are centred around Great Harwood in East Lancashire. (although one
branch seems to have spent time in Ireland and others emigrated to USA
and Tasmania ). There are links here to Barons, Hindles, Hargreaves and
Shaw families.
The Browns are my mother's family and are
from Sheffield/Lincolnshire.
The Churchhouses (my wife's family) lived in
Preston, although one branch lived on a canal boat and
travelled the Lancaster canal between Preston and Kendal.
The Yeates (my wife's maternal family)
latterly lived around Preston, although they came from
Gloucestershire via a circuitous route (read The Railway
Children on the Yeates pages for the story).
Not part part of my own or my wife's ancestry is the Heywood and Kitching tree.
They are the maternal ancestors of my cousins. They are latterly Great
Harwood families but the Kitchings appear to have come from the
Chipping area, and the Heywoods from Leyland.
My interest in family history is relatively recent although my
sister, Barbara, did quite a bit of research back using parish
records in the 1960's. This was lost, however, with her death
in 1984 .
The site has been built using minimal graphics for fast
download, however your browser does need to support frames as
navigation relies on a side-bar . I intended to use GIF files
for the pictorial family trees, however as the size of the
trees grew the quality reduced until they were almost
unreadable. So the trees are now PDF (Portable Document Format)
files, which means they are much larger and you will need some
means of viewing them, either Adobe's Acrobat Reader (which can
integrate with browsers) or some other PDF viewer. The quality,
however, is much better and the detail can be viewed by zooming
in on the area of interest.
If I make significant changes to the site, that is changes
that add people to the family trees (or even delete them if it
turns out I got something wrong), I'll flag it up under the
"LATEST" headline at the top of this page. The "Site History"
page will give more information. Cosmetic changes and minor
alterations won't be flagged.
Linking to this site
If
you intend to provide a link to this site please read
Linking to the Site. There are also a
few observations there about search engines .
Robert Calvert