Welcome to the Baker-Bradbury family history 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. 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.
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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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 
