New Ockenden contact

Great news from a descendant of Charles Oliver Ockenden, son of Oliver Ockenden & Mary Anna Benjafield. Contact me for more info.

mary@allenbird.co.uk

Stickwood Families

Since my previous post on this family I have received a huge amount of info from Heatha who was contacted through Genes Reunited. The new info will appear on my website next time it is updated.

Benjafield Update

I know it's a while since I updated but much has happened & we've also been on holiday. At last we've been to Nashville, a tour which included Memphis & Las Vegas. It was great but family info has been pouring in since August & it's now back to some work.

Brian Frappell has sent an updated file for the descendants of Harry Benjafield, who emigrated to Tasmania in 1873. I hope to update my website soon with all this.
http://www.allenbird.co.uk/ghtout

Stickwood

Had good news through Genes Reunited and have made conact with a 3rd cousin, descendant of Selah Stickwood, my great grandmother's sister.

Charlotte Stickwood

A Picture of Charles Garrett & Charlotte Stickwood with their children & grandchildren, taken circa 1915.

Rick's girls

We have found Fiona, she married in November 2003. Next step is to write a letter and take it slowly from there.

Rick & Mary
(apprehensively)

Bartley in Cardiff

This week I've received new information from Gloria in Cardiff on descendants of Gladys Bartley, the youngest of Edwin Charles Bartley & Rosina Anne Sawyer's children.

Contact me at mary@allenbird.co.uk for further news of this family

A Father's appeal

Please get in touch
To my daughters, Kirstie & Fiona Bird, I can't give up looking for you both, even after all this time.
I know 16 years is a long time, but my love for you both has never diminshed and I will never give up hope that one day we will see each other again. I don't ask for much, a letter or e-mail just to let me know how you are doing. So if you can find it in your hearts to get in touch I would love to hear from you both.
All my love, Dad
Richard Bird, 5 Fox Way, Nether Stowey, Bridgwater, TA5 1PF - rick@allenbird.co.uk

Website

My website is now online after a week preparing the files. I almost gave up several times but it was worth it. I used gedcom conversion software to create the web and had lots of help from 56KB.

My Family Tree is http://www.allenbird.co.uk/

Benjafield One-name study

My Guild of One-Name Studies profile is now online at

http://www.one-name.org/profiles/benjafield.html

Photos from Canada

Also Glenda Walker Hobbs in Canada has sent me family pictures, including her great nepohew Xavier Lavergne.

Glenda is a poet, some of her latest work can be seen at

http://writersvillage.com/poetry/default.htm

Photos from family

It must be the week for sending photos. My sister, Janet has sent me pictures of her stepson's twins, Jessica & Mia Candlish, also their new kitten George. He is so cute as are the twins who are now 1 year old.

Our Photo

Benjafield One-name study

Benjafield One-Name Study - I'm setting up my one-name study profile with the Guild of One Name Studies. this should be on-line soon but I would prefer to wait until I can add my website link. Web writing is a new area for me but it is enjoyable if time comsuming.

Whoops, forgot to mention the Bird family on my previous post

As this is our first blog it seems appropriate to announce the arrival of the newest family member, Mary's first grandchild, Phoebe Charlotte.

As the blog name indicates, this will be a family history record for new contacts and family members.

Names of interest are:
Allen, Arnold, Banfield, Bartlett, Bartley, Beacham, Clarke, Connibeer, Coombes, Cracknell, Davey, Devey, Dunn, Edwards, Feltham, Fewster, Fortey, Garrett, Gillard, Hall, Hampson, Hancock, Harvey, Hooper, Jackman, Laight, Marsh, Meacham, Morgan, Oborne, Oliver, Orchard, Petchy, Petter, Pond, Ridler, Smith, Stevens, Stickwood, Taylor, Trotman, Wall, Webber, Wheeler, White, Wild, Yeo