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 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 sources.
All Desborough individuals on the site can be accessed from this
index.
A
wives and widows index gives access to a woman's details
where you don't know her maiden name. A forenames index
lets you pull up a list in date order of all the individuals
with a specified first name.
The "Church / Parish Records" section has brief biographies of the
Clergy of Giles
and an index of
photographs of memorials.
Several pages which list records added from the Parish
Registers for
baptisms,
marriages,
burials, and some of the more
unusual details recorded. Records from Bishop's Transcripts.
Photographs of memorials inside the church, and of some memorials from the town cemetery.
New:
Jubilee
Souvenir of the Desborough Industrial & Provident Co-operative
Society Ltd, 1863-1913. This includes many photographs of
people and places.
The Health & Welfare
section includes
disabilities,
hospital patients,
prisoners,
twins, and
workhouse inmates
Contact
LELLIS at
AFAMILYSTORY dot CO
dot UK
To contact me, replace "at" with "@" and "dot" with "."
in the above address.
Latest Updates
Desborough Bishop's Transcripts 1707-1812 have now been
completed. Permit me a small Yippee! -
it's been a long haul ...
5th March 2010
Census information for years when individuals were
not in Desborough is being rewritten and enhanced to
match the data from the Desborough censuses. For those
individuals where it has been completed
you'll be able to see the full household details for all
available censuses on a single page. Taking the information away
from the 'vitals' page is also making that display much clearer
More photographs of headstones and more individuals from
Bishop's Transcripts added.
16th February 2010
Jubilee Souvenir of the Desborough Industrial & Provident
Co-operative Society Ltd, 1863-1913.
29th January 2010
Nearly 950 more individuals have been added to the Desborough
database, taking Bishop's Transcripts up to March 1794.
The older records are
starting to link up to the census information.
More photographs of headstones from both St Giles and the
town cemeteries have been added.
28th January 2010
Earlier updates ...
Family Tree: 3038 people
Desborough study: 13591
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.
