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Sarah Buxton was Ari’s 7x great-grandmother. She was born in Middleton By Wirksworth in Derbyshire in 1744 and baptised on 21 November...

Ari’s 6x great-grandfather, Benjamin Mullens, was born in 1762/3 in the hamlet of Chicksgrove, Wiltshire, and baptised at St John’s...

Elizabeth Dancocks was Ari’s 7x great-grandmother. She was born in the village of Kempsey, situated on the river Severn in...

Martha Dunn is one of Ari’s more unusual Derbyshire ancestors, in that she was born in Newcastle Upon Tyne. I don’t know how she came to...

Of Ari's ancestors found so far (585 people) who have an occupation listed in my database, these are the most common:

Mary was one of Ari’s 6x great-grandmothers. She was born in Church Knowle in Dorset in 1787, and baptised at St Peter’s church in the...

Frances Chapman Cawthorn was Ari’s 4x great-grandmother, born in the year 1800 in Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire. She was given her mother...

William Phipps was born in the village of Ockbrook, which is near the canal on the road from Nottingham to Derby. William was one of...

Thomas Hardy’s cottage in Higher Bockhampton, which we visited when we went to Dorset in 2014. Isaac Dibben was one of Ari’s 5x...

Eliza Kent was one of Ari’s 5x great-grandmothers. She was born in 1814 in the village of Kirk Langley, which is 4.5 miles north-west of...

One of Ari’s great-great-grandfathers was Thomas Davis Cobley. He and his twin brother Edward Daniel were born on 1 June 1874 in the...

Sheva (Sophia) Brenner was Ari’s 4x great-grandmother, and I am using this blog post to look again at what we know about her, which is...

Sarah Ann Stanton was Ari’s 3x great-grandmother and came from West Pinchbeck in Lincolnshire. She was the youngest of seven daughters of...

Emma Orchard was one of Ari’s 5x great-grandmothers. She lived in Corfe Castle in Dorset, and had been born there in 1843. Her parents,...

I know very little about Annie, who was Ari’s 4x great-grandmother. She was born in about 1850 in Lithuania, and must have died before 30...

Ari’s 3x great-grandmother, Elizabeth Phipps, was born on 11 December 1876 in Holbrook, Belper, Derbyshire. She was the fifth of the...

What do we do when the facts don’t fit our story? Sometimes we just give up at that point in our tree, deciding that it’s too complicated...

Alfred Turner was Ari’s 4x great-grandfather, and he was a plasterer. He was born on 7 August 1823 in Warminster, Wiltshire, and baptised...

Jakob Gross was Ari’s 6x great-grandfather, and he was a tailor. He was born in about 1780 in Poland. He married Esther Brajna Grün in...

Ari’s 8x great-grandfather, Jasper Allen, was born in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, in 1716, which gives me an opportunity to use this photo...