Introduction to these trees
This website is organised so that my ancestors are covered in the "Webb Line" tab and those of my wife under "Vaughan Davies Line" tab.
The Webb line follows the grandparents Webb, Desborough, Hull and Jackman, their families and those who married into them.
The Vaughan Davies line follows the grandparents (Vaughan) Davies, Anderson, Lockie and Turner, their families and those who married into them.
There are also
photos of people and places
Documents - factual summaries about a person or place
Histories - story narratives about a person or place.
There are some personal recollections for the Webb line here and for the Vaughan Davies line here
In order to protect the privacy of living members of the family, I have kept these people, and their parents, out of the public tree.
The most recent members of the family, roughly speaking those born after about 1920-1930 are available, but only by contacting me direct.
The information has been sourced from many places, and hopefully are listed. My apologies if they are not. Much of the dates and place information comes from internet searches, generally using Ancestry or Find My Past, but also Online Parish Clerks, My Heritage and The National Archives, supplemented by family knowledge and documents and GRO certificate copies. However the gossip and stories come from a wider range of internet sites, and again stories, sometimes not true, from the families.
Where places are idenfied on maps, these are displayed on modern maps for simplicity, even though the places in question may relate to any time in the last nearly 400 years. Where the only information relates to town, village etc, or a road in that town, the place identifier is shown in that town, on that road etc, and is not necessarily the exact location of the event. Where UK counties are used, I have tried to use the county name that was current at the time, and this is not necessarily the current name. In general, even where I know an actual address, from a baptism, marriage, burial, census etc, it is usually not possible to identify the house number etc on these maps. In those places where there has been significant redevelopment (eg cities heavily bombed in WW2, or new town developments), the locations are even more speculative.