Our unique family heritage is what professional researchers call "clues to our past."  Properly collected and pieced together, these clues can unlock the most interesting  adventures that we can ever experience. These clues learned from other members of our  families can teach us the stories of our origin.

Who were the people that gave us our family names? Where did the names come from?  What part of the world did they come from? How long were they there? Where did they  go? Why did they leave? What relationship are they to my family and me?

Most of us are curious but never get involved. We say not enough time, too much work,  We wouldn't know where to start. etc.

A "work in progress",this web site is an attempt to make it easier for The Townsend  families and possibly other individuals or families to begin to research by supplying  basic information.

This begins with my Grand children and progresses through to the first person to take  on the Townsend name, Lodovic de Townshende, during the eleventh century.

The Ancestral name Townsend is an "English place name" and can be spelled in various  ways: the most common is Townsend; you might see it as Townshend,Tunneshende,  Townshende,Townson,Townsil and the much older,atte-Towns-end which means of course,  living at the place where the town ends.