The trees below are necessarily devoid of every single family member, which would take complete rolls of wallpaper to reproduce. I have only included individuals and families that I have written about. If anyone should wish to have further, more detailed trees please comment below and I will do my best to help.
The family of my maternal grandfather: Reginald Frank RIDOUT….
The family of my maternal grandmother: Elsie May BEATON….
The descendants of Thomas ORCHARD of Widcombe. My ARCHARD family and the peruke makers of Abbey Green descend from Thomas ORCHARD and Elizabeth BRIGHT. The non-conformist ORCHARDS descend from Thomas ORCHARD’s brother Joseph and his wife Ann, who lived in Monkton Combe near Bath….
Martha SOMERTON (my x3 great-grandmother)’s Bristol family, proprietors and publishers of the Bristol Mercury over four generations….
The Nethercombe line
Amazing ! I found your wonderful family history while researching my own. Edwin Ridout(1833) is the father-in -law of my great aunt, Eliza Louisa Jefferies.
Gosh Susan! Thanks for dropping by… So, Edwin was my great great grandfather. That means we are sort of related by marriage a bit
Glad you like the blog, thank you. Let’s correspond off this site. I will write to you privately in a jiffy.
Cheers
Karen
Hi, just found your site – what a lot of information! My ggggg grandparents were Abraham Orchard (1753-93) and Martha Bishop (1757-95). I have copies of family papers for them (athough who knows where the originals went that we used to have!).
Hi Liz
Thanks for your message – I guess you might find out quite a bit about your family here, including some things you didn’t know hopefully
I spent quite a lot of time researching my ARCHARD family and they quickly turned into ORCHARDS before I was too far back in time.
Abraham and Isaac were the most interesting men I think; they lived in a world where was so much was happening and they seemed to have been in the thick of it. I enjoyed finding out and writing about them but my own family were a rather more modest bunch, as is always the way. It is a shame that you don’t have your original family papers any more; I guess that’s often true – I don’t either.
Cheers, Karen