The Earnshaw Family Web Site

• 15 - 27 December 2005
• Additions to the Horsfall family
• Found Elizabeth Ann Thorne (b 1844) married to Richard Halls
• Updated the document on the Blackmore family searches (family information pages)
• Additions to Eddiford family
• Additions and corrections to the Hockridge family
• 30 October - 9 December 2005
• Additions to Burch, Norton, Squire and Spencer families
• Updates on Castle family - Horace Rinaldo married Alice Elizabeth Blackmore
• More about the ROW family from Topsham
• Updates on Greensmith/Turner family of Leeds
• A new progress report, under the family information pages, on the search for the Blackmore family
• Maiden name of the wife of William Blackmore (b 1789) - Ann Baker, not Ann Arnold
• Baptism of Ann Baker and her first marriage to John Arnold in 1818
• Information from family documents held by descendants of William Henry Blackmore
• Photos of items held by the Blackmore family - still to add
• Details about William Henry Blackmore, his wife and the parents of both
• Confirmation that Samuel John Blackmore lived in Ilfracombe
• Confirmation that Joseph Henry Thorne lived at Yarner until about 1922
• some further details of Best and Parker families from the parish records
• Many updates, corrections and tidying up across the whole tree
• 3 - 15 October 2005
• Based on information from Skyrme family, I think I've traced Samuel John Blackmore
• Death registered in Ilfracombe 1950
• Death certificate not definitive
• Blackmore's still live at the same address, but not related
• Traced descendants of William Henry Blackmore (Brother of Eliza Ann)
• spoken to a descendant of his daughter Dorothy (married name Skyrme)
• They have William Blackmore's pestle and mortar and the family bible!!(see will)
• convinced I've found the correct family as many known details match up
• More information on the family of John and Alice Blackmore in Australia
• NB Unlikely to get much more until later birth data is available
• Entries from the index of BMDs in NSW
• Entries from the index of burials in Victoria
• From entries in the National Archives of Australia
• Completed the scan of BMDs in Victoria
• Some updates to the Howell family (Sue's tree)
• Some updates to the Stitson family (Sue's tree)
• Added death information for Constance Patrick Earnshaw
• Found another child of Elizabeth Abell/Watts/Loader/Potter/Marshall
• Added birth and death information on Martha Blackmore (Garnish) and birth of Matilda Hedden
• Added some additional details on descendants of James and Grace Blackmore
• Made a few corrections and additions based on searches of the 1851 census on Ancestry
• 19 - 30 Sep 2005
• Wills/Probate for Thomas Albert Blackmore and his wife Martha (nee Garnish)
• will/probate for William Henry Blackmore
• Will/Probate for May Blackmore, daughter of George Frederick
• Details for John Blackmore and Alice Handford in Victoria, Australia
• Death certificates for both John and Alice which are very detailed!
• Many more descendants added
• The births of their 9 children
• The marriages of all of the children
• The births of their grandchildren
• Their deaths, which confirm Alice Handford's parents names
• Some additional details following contact with a living descendant
• The probate records for William Henry Blackmore which names his daughter and son in law
• The probate records for Thomas Albert and Martha Blackmore
• The probate record for May Blackmore, daughter of George Frederick
• 7 - 14 Sep 2005
• updated through use of Legacy 6
• Updates to several families
• Various data corrections after checking the consistency of the data (still more needed)
• Updates to several families including - Cowd, Delve, Norton, Symons, Lavercombe, Earnshaw(Horsfall)
• First possible conneciton of my Blackmore family to that of RD Blackmore - through Lavercombe family
• 2 - 30 Aug 2005
• Additions to Delve, Rudd, Earnshaw (Horsfall), Best, Perriam, Gooding families
• Updates to Back family (descendants of Mary Jane Row)
• Finally found the death of James DAW in 1918 - in Plymouth! (Sue's tree)
• Updates to Sue's tree using the 1841 census
• Further updates to Jack's tree based on 1841 census findings
• Further updates to the "Spare Entries" tree to trace the family of John Authors Blackmore
• Minor updates to the "Spare entries" tree, correcting and updating James Blackmore/Elizabeth Pincombe
• Possible solution to Sarah Briggs born 1834 in Wadsworth
• Updates to Carter family
• Found Michael Hooper of Topsham on the 1841 census (at Taunton)
• Updates to Liffen, Peel, Mecklenburgh, Parker families
• Further information on Jack Kenneth Sunderland Earnshaw, confirming his death on the Hofuku Maru
• 1 - 30 Jul 2005
• Added Hitchcock family
• Additions to Evans family(Braunton), Browne and Harvey (Norfolk)
• Continuing to add 1841 census entries
• Found my cousin Geraldine - or rather she found me!
• Added a couple more photos of the Best family
• More descendants of John and Martha Earnshaw
• Rebecca's marriage and children (Tidswell)
• John's (son of John and Martha) son William
• John's (son of John and Martha) daughter Selina
• I believe I have now found all descendants of John and Martha up to 1901
• More of the Briggs family of Wadsworth
• Additions to the Browne and Harvey family in Norfolk
• Additions to the Hooper family from Devon
• Additions to the Hockridge family of Devon
• 4 - 29 Jun 2005
• Additions to the Hockridge family
• Additional Skinner names from Taunton
• Added further details on Brigg/Briggs family from Wadsworth
• Added more information about the Browne and Harvey families of Norfolk
• Added further detail on the Eteson family of Yorkshire (Thanks Heather)
• Aded data on the Gunkel family in London
• Extended the information on the Grace/Carnell/Drew/Dyer families
• Added additional information on the Eteson, Gayton and Kippax families
• Added 1861 data for the Browne and Holman families in Norfolk
• Added Carnell family with at least 3 connections to Best and Gibbins
• Updates to Bray family
• Updates to Gunkel family
• Updates to Larcombe and Tomkings families
• Corrections to Smalridge family
• Updates to Whalley family
• 3 - 31 May 2005
• Updates to Earnshaw family from parish registers
• Additions to the Chignall family (Sue's tree)
• Updates to Patrick / Mecklenburgh families
• Updates to Gunkel family (married to Potter family)
• Additions to Wilton family (Sue's tree)
• Lot of updates from 1861 census, including
• Lavinia Gibson (nee Smith) in Guys Hospital - described as a widow
• Benjamin George Hooper in Torquay
• William and Grace Symons in Shropshire
• Additions to the Gibbins family
• 15 - 26 Apr 2005
• Updates to family of Reuben Earnshaw and his wife (Ann Whitaker)
• Updates on the family of the other Reuben Earnshaw (married Sarah Ann Spencer)
• Descendants of James Blackmore (son of Richard and Grace)
• More on the Carter family of Devon who emigrated to Australia
• Started to add a few references found on Pallots Marriage and Baptism Indexes
• Some additions to the Gunkel family - married into Potter family
• Updates to Cousen family
• Some corrections to Earnshaw family in/around Oxenhope
• Some updates to the Moorhouse family in Barugh
• Descendants of Mary Fair Browne (her sister Ellen married George Frederick Blackmore)
• 28 - 29 Mar 2005
• Additions to the DAW family (Sue's tree)
• Additions to Pym (Drake) family in Devon
• 15 - 25 Mar 2005
• Additions to Aze family in Barnstaple
• Ge-generated Jack's tree with new vsn of Legacy (corrects info on multiple marriages)
• Updates based on certificates for the Costin/Potter families
• Additions to Murgatroyd family
• Some additions to Moorhouse family
• Updates to Knowles family from Woodbury
• Response from Red Cross on JKS Earnshaw as a POW in WW2
• Some additional info on Costin family
• More of the family of Ellen Elizabeth Browne
• Leach family - married Sam Beaumont
• Lot more information on the Hockridge family of Clovelly
• Updates to the Hooper family of Topsham
• Updates to Parker family
• 3 - 9 Mar 2005
• Found the death of John and Mary Thorne of Bickington, Fremington
• Birth of Ellen Elizabeth Browne and hence her family
• Birth of Mary Ann Holman and hence her parents names
• Death of Grace Baker Symons (nee Blackmore)
• Lot more updates to the Costin family in East London
• Some updates to various parts of the Earnshaw tree, including additional photos
• Updates to the Costin/Potter family in East London
• Some updates to the Blackmore family that moved to Michigan
• 21 - 26 Feb 2005
• 7 generations back on the Earnshaw line
• Moved the relevant families from "Census" to"Jack"
• Updates to ROW family
• Picture of Ida Blackmore
• Other updates to East Devon families
• 14 Feb 2005
• Additions to Gooding family (Devon), including links to some marrying into Paver family
• Additions to Charlesworth family (Yorkshire)
• Some additions to Lindley family (Yorkshire) from 1851 and 1861 census
• 2 - 11 Feb 2005
• Additional information on Harris family from Ashreigney (married into Best family)
• Some extra information on Earnshaw family from 1901 census
• Some additional information and descendants of George Henry Lindley
• Completed the updates to the Chignall and Hawley families (Sue's tree)
• Completed the updates to the Moorhouse and Haigh families
• Small number of updates to Bennett/Row family
• Added some burial data to Gayton family in Fremington
• Added the youngest person to the file Maxwell James Grisenti!
• More information on James William Earnshaw and his father Timothy
• Timothy's first wife was Sarah Ann HESLING, not ESLINGTON as on her marriage certificate
• Added census and BMD details for the Hesling family of Cottingley
• Added information on James William's wife and family - Mary Eteson from Fewston
• Added more details on James William's descendants
• 23 - 30 Jan 2005
• Additions to the Chignall and Hawley Families (Sue's tree)
• Gorfin/Mummery family (married into Best family)
• Updates from Fremington and Exmouth registers of baptisms, marriages and burials
• Start of updates to Moorhouse family (related to Lindley)
• Marriage and descendants of James William Earnshaw (son of Timothy)
• Descendants of John Blackmore (b 1831 Yarnscombe)
• Descendants of Annie Moorhouse
• MOre information on Blackmore
• More information on Lindley
• Addition to the Grisenti household!
• Start of sorting out the Gibbins family
• 9 - 14 Jan 2005
• More descendants of George and Elizabeth Blackmore
• More information/clarification of the Gibbins family in Exmouth
• Descendants and details of John and James Blackmore who emigrated to Illinois
• Confirmed marriage of Thomas Blackmore and Elizabeth Rice + the baptism of their son William
• Some updates to Knowles, Gooding and Gidley
• 3 - 4 Jan 2005
• Updates to Smaldon and Squires
• Small number of updates to Smaldon, Powell, Gibbins, Gooding

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