Genealogy

Here you will be able to see how we are getting on in our research for our family ancestors.

I began to research our family ancestors a few years ago, as due to bad health problems I had to take early retirement, after gathering so much information about our ancestors I decided to research a little into the social history side, this gave us a good picture as to how life was, including the working and living conditions.

All of a sudden it was growing into a lovely picture of the days gone by. It was at this time that I decided to try and share the information that I had gathered with other people, this was in the hope that someone might be able to connect into our family tree, it was at this time that I began making our 'Ward Family Website', my first attempts were fairly basic, but we got some good response from it, and so I tried to better the site, and here we are today.

I do hope that you find the pages of our site interesting, and I would love to here from you, especially if you find that we have some family connection.

Well that's enough of my chatting, please enjoy your visit, and we wish you all well in your own research.

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I myself have used these free trials in the past, and have managed to add many extra names to our family tree, I must admit, that I have even subscribed for a time, as there is so much data to search.

New To Genealogy

This is a great new section if you have just started on your search for your family tree. Many interesting and helpful notes, and also some good links to places on the web that will be useful in your research.

This section now has a new layout, as I have added much more content.

Surnames

Here you can view a list of the Surnames that we are researching together with the Years and Area's.

Genealogy Page One

This page gives you details of our research into our WARD family name, plus our ancestors on my line of the family. As well as showing quite a few old photo's of interest. Also contains some good links.

Genealogy Page Two

Similar set out as Page One, but showing my wife's genealogy line, some good photo's, and a few great links to some of our pages that give you many LEYLAND family name Baptism's, and Marriages and Deaths.

As well as a lovely small story, which was written by my wife's late mother entitled 'My Life as a child in the village of Summerseat' well worth a visit.

Our Family Tree

Here you can view our Family Tree, which also gives you many noted events, as well as notes on individuals and families

This section now contains 22 Family Descendant Narrative Reports of many of our ancestors, including - BIRD, CHAPMAN, CLARE, CLAYTON, CROCKETT, FORREST, GERRARD, HUTCHINSON, LEYLAND, LYNCH, MARSH, SCOTT, WARD, WARNER, and WILKES.

We have now added two Ancestor Charts, one for my Ward line, and the other is for my wife's family line.

Our Family Roots

This is a great page that will give you a little bit of history into some of the Surnames in our family, and a great insight into the occupations that many of our ancestors were in, such as - Coal Mining, Weaving & Spinning (Cotton & Silk), Watch Making and Glass Making. Together with a write up on the Coventry Workhouse, including the workhouse routine. As well as a list of wages from 1830, and great old pictures relating to this page.

A must to visit.

Monumental Inscriptions

Here we have listed a few Monumental Inscriptions that we have copied from the headstones of many of our relatives, as well as from those with the same surname’s that we are researching, but as yet have not linked to our ancestors, there may be some here that will be of interest to you in your own research.

Monumental Inscriptions and Obituaries for the Ward family surname - We are sure that you will find this page very interesting. Click Here to Visit

Genealogy Dictionary

Here you can find the meaning of many genealogy terms from - Abeyance to Yeoman. Includes many medical conditions.

Our Photo Gallery of Headstones

Here we have made up a photo gallery of headstones. I do plan to expand this area of our site, and we will be adding more photo's over the coming months.

This page gives you a chart showing the history of Illnesses and Diseases in the UK, we cover from the year 1350 right through to 1950. Of course this may not detail the Full History, but we have added all those that we have researched.

Here we have listed many Disease and Illness terms, together with the basic interpretation, you may find these on your ancestors death certificates, and not understand the meaning, we do hope that you find this page useful.

and hopefully benefit from it. We also list other useful documents, and have over 180 Will Transcriptions listed, as well as over 1800 Certificates.