In 1587 all settlers from the first English colony in the new world, Roanoke, had disappeared - probably from starvation. It would be 20 years before Jamestown was founded in 1617, the first English colony to survive in the New World. The Spanish Empire dominates [...]
The majority of surnames in England gradually came into being in the centuries following the Norman invasion in 1066, and initially only a few prominent families would have used them. People were instead known by a personal name together with a description of, for example, [...]
Who are we? We all have 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great-grandparents, and so on. Go back two hundred years, and you'll find 64 ancestors; another hundred years will give you 512. Go back to the year 1000AD, and you have about a million ancestors [...]
John Thomas Tusting farmed at Church Farm from 1884 to 1897. His distant ancestors (then known as Tustin) lived in the village of Marnham in Nottinghamshire. His 5 times g-grandfather was a yeoman farmer there in the first half of the 17th century, but subsequent [...]
