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:
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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in the above address.
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
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.
