Welcome!

Meet my Ellis and Moyise ancestors and their connections, the Brattles and the Razzells.
Meet their sons and daughters, wives and husbands,
in-laws and out-laws!
Armed Forces
includes
soldiers and
sailors from
Desborough, and a
Roll of
Honour for those who gave their lives in the Great War.
These are all on-going.
Complete transcriptions for six censuses:
1841,
1851,
1861,
1871,
1881 and
1891, and
1901, with individuals interlinked.
From the surnames index
you can pull up descendant trees, including biographical information, links to censuses and information from
other source
A wives and widows index gives
access to a woman's details where you don't know her maiden name.
A new
forenames index
lets you pull up a list in date order of all the individuals
with a specified first name.
The "Parish Church" section has brief biographies of the
Clergy of Giles and an index of
photographs of memorials.
The new
Health Matters section
includes
disabilities and a list of
twins.
2nd July 2009
Contact
LELLIS at
AFAMILYSTORY dot CO
dot UK
To contact me, replace "at" with "@" and "dot" with "."
in the above address.
Recent Updates
The site is experiencing server problems
at present, please bear with me whilst these are being sorted
out.
The Desborough census pages have all been revised to load
more quickly.
There are two new Desborough menu items:
Forenames (an
index of first names, including the date of first known use) and
Health Matters. The
latter has indexes for
disabled
individuals and for
twins.
2nd July 2009
The final section of the 1901 Desborough census has been transcribed:
District 6.
20th June 2009
The second section of the 1901 Desborough census has been transcribed:
District 5.
10th June 2009
The "Armed Forces" section in the Desborough Study has now
been extended and lists all soldiers who have been indentified
so far. Links lead, in some cases, to their full military
records.
The 'Regiments' link, under 'Armed Forces' enables you to see
which other Desborough soldiers served in the same regiment
during World War 1.
20th April 2009
Earlier updates ...
Family Tree: 3038 people
Desborough study: 9696
A
word to the wise ... I've tried to ensure that what appears on
the site is correct, but please remember that you should always
go back to the source and verify information before relying on
it to fill a gap in your own family tree.