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!
Complete transcriptions for six censuses:
1841,
1851,
1861,
1871,
1881 and
1891 with individuals interlinked.
Other information, such as birth, baptism, marriage, death and burial information, have been
added to many individuals.
A surnames index
leads to pages listing all the people identified so far, each followed by a
descendant tree. The lists are not limited to the census data.
A wives and widows index gives
access to a woman's details where you don't know her maiden name.
New - People's location when they were not
present in Desborough is now starting to be added - see, for example, information about
John Tailby and his family
7th July 2008
Contact
LELLIS at
AFAMILYSTORY dot CO
dot UK
To contact me, replace "at" with "@" and "dot" with "."
in the above address.
Recent Updates
All but the most obscure individuals in the Desborough censuses have now been indentified,
adding nearly 1000 individuals to the study. As the study is now so big all of the pages have
been moved into a single directory. Please update any bookmarks you have made.
12th September 2008
Some World War II army photos have been added to the Portrait Gallery. You may find a photo
of your father or grandfather here.
15th June 2008
Additional links have been added to the navigation bar to make it easier to move about in
the Desborough Study, and the index pages within the study have had A-Z shortcuts introduced
to improve navigation.
1st May 2008
Earlier updates ...
Individuals in
family tree: 2974
Individuals in Desborough study: 7111
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.