Hello and welcome to The Barker/Bell family tree.  I`m Thora and I`ve lovingly  spent many hours researching this information with the kind help of many  friends and family. 




My delving has also put me in touch with distant cousins, 4 or 5 times removed,  and helped me to discover many interesting facts about my wonderful family  history.

For your information, under the `births` heading the earlier entries are most  likely to be christenings and the same applies to deaths where some may be  burial dates.

Since starting this website, I`ve managed to find some pictures of the many  beautiful churches associated with my family tree.  Many of the pictures have  been used with the kind permission of Steve Bulman. Please visit his website for more interesting photos and information on Cumbria. 
 http://www/stevebulman.F9.co.uk/cumbria/frameshome.html/.



I hope you enjoy having a look around here.  Please take the time to let me  know what you think by signing my guest book.

Also do look at the links.



Food for thought.

                ANCESTORS

If you could see your ancestors
 all standing in a row,
 Would you be proud of them or not,
 or don`t you really know?
 Some strange discoveries are made
 in climbing family trees
 and some of them you know do not
 particularly please.

If you could see your ancestors
 all standing in a row,
 There might be some of them perhaps,
 you wouldn`t care to know. 
 But here`s another question which
 requires a different view,
 If you could meet your ancestors,
 would they be proud of you?

In memory of Edith Littledale
          1848-1920.