I decided to set up this website to keep in touch with family and friends at home and abroad.  Please follow the links in the Navigation Bar at the top of this page.  My husband Barry's family and mine migrated from other counties to Yorkshire to work in the collieries of South Yorkshire.

My family history pages include Braithwaite, Copley, Cupit/Skevington, Dixon, Gash,  Hickling,   Micklethwaite, Peutrell, Vaughan family pages and as the branches increase I thought it sensible to prepare a surnames list, currently being up-dated and reformatted.  Please visit the Genealogy page which shows how I first started researching our family history, beginning with my Great Grandfather, William Gash who was a member of the 17th Lancers regiment. There's also my ongoing research into the death of Abraham Thompson, killed in the 1851 Warren Vale Colliery disaster in Rawmarsh and the tragic death of Mark Tomlinson who was engulfed in quicksand at Kirton Skeldyke. Some members of the Gash family and my brother, David Roy Braithwaite emigrated to Canada - please take a look at The Canadians - covering our family in Canada.  There are a series of newspaper reports which appeared in a Canadian newspaper - the Fernie Free Press page - this section consists of stories about the Gash and Wallwork families from the time of the 1st World War, 1915 to 1937.

Barry's family history is included on the Jackson, Barrowcliffe/Dutton, and Wilkinson-Hornsey pages.  The Hallam family connection is included on the Barrowcliffe/Dutton page with an additional link to another Hallam 'branch' which can only be accessed here and from the Barrowcliffe/Dutton page.

You might be interested in my Mother's shop which also includes memories of growing up in Rawmarsh, in South Yorkshire - things I can remember about living behind the shop on Kilnhurst Road at Ryecroft, a district of Rawmarsh.  There's room for more information if anyone would like to email me; or my School Days in Rawmarsh and Mexborough; or my 2 x Great Grandfather, schoolmaster, Benjamin Micklethwaite's story; and I have also included a page devoted to my father's experiences in World War I.

As well as photographs on most pages, there are three photograph galleries: Gallery1; Gallery2;  and latterly Photo Gallery 3 which includes some later pictures and also of some unidentified photographs - I would be pleased to hear if anyone recognises who the people are (please use the email address at the bottom of each page).   Gallery Number one consists mainly of photographs of the Gash family and descendants; the second gallery consists of family pictures of the Hickling and Braithwaite families. 

More photographs have been added and now appear on most pages.  If anyone can supply me with any photographs which relate to the website they would be gratefully received.

These pages though, are still not complete, with information yet to add and with visits planned to look up further records, I will update most weeks.

Andrew Shaw's Micklethwaite Family History Record covers the family tree beginning with John Micklethwaite; and the Pewtrall Family Tree can now only be accessed via this link and from the Peutrell Family page.

I have also included a page containing all the BRAITHWAITE surnames found whilst trawling through the 1841 Census - this is by no means complete with entries being added as I find them.  I was prompted to initiate this page because of the huge brick wall involving my Great Grandfather Robert Braithwaite - finding his baptism record would be a huge bonus! 

The most recent addition is the Parish Records page, this includes births, deaths and marriages of the family names associated with our family history. 

 

If anyone wants to get in touch with me regarding anything on this site please contact me at - hilary.jcksn "followed by" @googlemail.com and if anyone objects to anything being included on any page, or if you spot any errors/assumptions made, please also let me know. 

I've had to change my email address because of the enormous amount of spam received at the Yahoo address - please note that the "followed by" is included in between  the 2 sections of the address to try avoid the huge amount of porn rubbish I have been receiving.