Welcome!

Ellen Jane Razzell


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!


Desborough Study

Armed Forces: soldiers and sailors from Desborough, and a Roll of Honour for those who gave their lives in the Great War.

Transcriptions: 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, and 1901 censuses; wills; BMD certificates; military service records; MIs. A new area of transcriptions has been started for Extracts from the probate calendar. All identified individuals are linked to their genealogy.

From the surnames index you can pull up descendant trees, including biographical information, links to censuses and information from other sources.

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.

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
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Latest Updates

Another 200 Desborough people have been added. A new list of Extracts from the probate calendar give dates of death, values of estates and links to executors.
22nd August 2010


Another 450 individuals have been added, mostly from the parish baptism and burial records between 1580 and 1600, including a man said to have been 120 years old! Have a look at other curiosities from the parish registers.

Many non-Desborough census records have been added for one-time Desborough residents, and a lot of people have been 'killed-off'.
14th August 2010


Transcriptions from the P.O. Directories for Desborough (1847, '54, '69) and Rothwell ('47, '54). Enjoy a wonderful misprint ...
19th July 2010


More soldiers records, marriage records, wills, photographs from Desborough Cemetery, plus some news reports of a Desborough Centenarian, Bertha Arnold, nee Marlow
15th July 2010


A variety of updates including some transcriptions of soldiers records, marriage records, 16th century baptisms, and a will; and more photographs of MIs from Desborough Cemetery, and the smashing of a brick wall
19th June 2010


Earlier updates ...


Family Tree: 3038 people

Desborough study: 15058


Caution signA 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.