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Fanny Deakin

Here are just three of the people in my family history database. The picture on the left shows Fanny Deakin and her daughter Lizzie (sitting) outside their home in Wetley Rocks, Staffordshire. Fanny (nee Ball, born 27th January 1850) was my great, great grandmother. The picture was probably taken sometime after the turn of the 20th century.

The picture to the right is Samuel Harvey, my great, great grandfather.
His daughter Sarah (known as Sally) married Fanny's son William Deakin.Samuel Harvey

I've put Samuel's picture here because he serves as a warming to all family history researchers .... check information provided by the family. It took me several years to track down the place of birth of Samuel because the family information was slightly wrong ... it was right for most of his siblings but not for Samuel ... and it was a long time before I realised that. I kept thinking my search was inadequate. His picture too is apparently misleading. He was a gardener and not in the habit of wearing smart clothes. Here he is apparently posing for photography students.

Click on the tools at the top of the page to search the database and see if any of my ancestors are the same as yours. I have collected the data from many sources, including those kind enough to share their research. Where possible I have given attributions in the source information. If any of my information helps you to develop your own family history, please feel free to use it.
To protect the privacy of living individuals I have filtered their personal information from the database.

I have done my best to validate the information in this site but I cannot guarantee it has no errors. If you see an error or can add to our pool of information I would love to hear from you. The notes I have added for each individual will provide a guidance as to how confident I am in the accuracy of the sources that have been used. For most of the individuals born before about 1550 the source information is derived from text books (including Google Books) and local history sites, for which I have provided urls in either the source citations or the notes but I personally have not seen the primary data sources.

Thomas Littleton It is said that everyone will eventually find a King and a murderer amongst their ancestry. I've managed to find several Kings, most notably, through illegitimate decent, Henry II but as yet don't know if any of my forebears (apart from some of the more notorious Kings and their barrons) were murderers. However, my favourite find so far is Thomas Littleton the famous jurist and author of one of the oldest legal books in English law. While there is some doubt as to the exact date of his birth there is much published information about him and his family.

Thanks to Thomas Gainsborough, who painted their portraits, there is also quite a lot of information about the Andrewes and Carter families, wealthy land owning ancestors of my late husband Andy.

While it is relatively easy to find information about the rich and powerful and interesting to think what life may have been like had mine or my husband's ancestors always been the eldest son of the eldest son, the find that would please me the most is to discover the history of my Bradbury ancestors, why two generations took their mother's surname and who the fathers were!


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Details of living individuals are hidden from public users. Where a date of death is not known anyone over 105 is assumed to be dead (there are some long lived individuals amongst our ancestors so we need to play safe!). Registered, authenticated users may see details of their close living relatives.

For this reason if you click on "charts" you may see only blank boxes. If you know the names of the people you are seeking use the "list" facility. Otherwise to browse the main lines of the Baker Bradbury tree use the following links:

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Hughes
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GEDCOM Statistics
 
Baker-Bradbury family
This GEDCOM was created using Family Tree Maker for Windows Family Tree Maker (16.0.350) on 13 October 2008
Individuals
Total surnames
823
Families
Sources
41
Media objects
32
Other Records
604
Total events
4619
Total users
14

Earliest Birth Year Hugh de Beauchamp  (I3721)  
Birth about 1044
Latest Birth Year
Earliest Death Year Gibert de Clare  (I3770)  
Death 1040
Latest Death Year Gwendoline Davies  (I3530)  
Birth 1920 Yorkshire

Death 2004
Person who lived the longest
102
Mary Sophia Jex  (I1537)  
Birth 23 January 1894 Spanish Fork, Utah, UT

Death 1 December 1996 Spanish Fork, Utah, UT
Average age at death
54
 
Family with the most children
14
Average number of children per family
2.52
 

Most Common Surnames
Andrewes, Baker, Banks, Clark, Cooper, Ewell, Harvey, Hughes, Huntington, Knott, Nelson, Smith, Thomas
 
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If you are searching for a specific surname the easiest option is to type the name into the search box at top right and click the ">". If you are not sure of the name or spelling click on the "lists" icon in the menu bar above and navigate by selecting the first letter of the name and then the surname.

Either of the above will provide a list of individuals with a summary of their information. Clicking on the individual will display their individual record.

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News
 
1066, crusades, barrons and feudal lords ...
12 October 2008 - 7:33:02pm

I have uploaded a new version of the database which includes one of my distant family lines going back to the time of the Norman invasion, through stories of loyalty, treason, heroism and execution. I pieced it together from a number of secondary sources including British History on-line, various local history web sites and several books on medieval families, including Plantagenet Ancestry, available on Google books. My family line occasionally coincided with the main line of decent, but more often than not it was a matter of searching for siblings and cousins and unravelling generation after generation with the same names.

The section of the history from William Banks (b 1796) to Elizabeth Littleton (b 1590) was provided by Pat and Ray Banks. I know that they have undertaken thorough research and visited many of the places mentioned and examined primary sources. There is a period of overlap from Elizabeth Littleton (b 1590) to Thomas Westcote (b abt 1384) which is covered in Pat and Ray's published material and which I also discovered for my self.
Using the charts
27 March 2008 - 5:07:54pm

When browsing the charts you can avoid the blank boxes protecting the privacy of living individuals by starting with one of the grandparents. The "Grandparent Links" can be found below-left.
BMD Certificate Information
27 March 2008 - 4:55:30pm

I have begun to catalogue all the BMD certificates I have collected over the last few years. The catalogues can accessed be from the links below-left or from the main genealogy page within The Sticks web site. The catalogues can be sorted and filtered on key fields and full certificate details for individual entries viewed.
New family database - Boulton
1 March 2008 - 2:25:48pm

We have added a new family database to this site. To access the Boulton family database move your cursor over the "Welcome Page" icon in the top menu bar and select "Boultons (II)" from the drop down. To return to the Bradbury-Baker database select "Bradbury-Baker" from the Welcome Page drop down.
 
Top 10 Surnames
 
SurnameIndividuals
1Banks 351
2Thomas 113
3ANDREWES 79
4Cooper 65
5Hughes 47
6Jenour 47
7Smith 45
8Knott 39
9de Clare 37
10Harvey 37
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