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Welcome! This website was created on 06 Sep 2005 and last updated on 28 Mar 2024. The family trees on this site contain 9577 relatives and 1423 photos. If you have any questions or comments you may send a message to the Administrator of this site.
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About ralphandco
This website celebrates the myriad people who have made my husband, Michael, our sons, Ralph and Adrian, and me what we are.

An interesting mix of Cornish, West Country, Midlands and London, our  ancestors, with their combined skills, could have catered for our every need.

We have hatters, shoemakers, tailors, dressmakers and shirtmakers. Our framework knitters could have supplied us with hosiery and silk gloves. We have  farmers, millers, grocers;  we have saddlers, coopers, joiners; we have carpenters, ironmoulders and engineers.  One even played the serpent in church.

There are stories about some of them which hint at dark deeds. What about a 26GGF (William de Tracey) who murdered Thomas à Becket? Or Cornish cousins who struck gold in Colorado, each later to be murdered in separate incidents in Telluride, the town where Butch Cassidy staged his first bank robbery?

Among the interesting relatives we've discovered are Mary Ann Brailsford, who planted the first  Bramley Seedling apple tree, John Spilsbury, who invented the first jigsaw puzzle, William  Butler, who worked with Isambard Kingdom Brunel, later to own a tar distillery, William's grandson, John Henry Iles, who built Dreamland at Margate, and Rowena Cade, who founded the Minack Theatre in Cornwall.

And who could resist mentioning that their Grand Uncle Archie Waring married Hannah Booth,  Florence Nightingale's cousin?
  
Living relatives include a couple of actors, Jeremy Northam and Julian Wadham, artists Jonathan Yeo, who recently painted a critically acclaimed portrait of the Duke of Edinburgh, and Patrick Brill, aka Bob and Roberta Smith, now a Royal Academician, whose work was shortlisted for the Fourth Plinth, and Tim Rich, a dendrologist, who, in a single morning in 2007, took  seeds from two plants, thereby preserving the flora of the entire continent of Antarctica.

Maritime links include Sir Roger Grenville, Captain of the Mary Rose, his son, Sir Richard  Grenville of the Revenge and Amy Grenville, an aunt who married Sir Francis Drake's uncle, not forgetting our cousin, Roderick Davis, the Olympic gold-medallist yachtsman.

The surnames of all our direct ancestors are shown in upper case and to make searching easier, I’ve added the relevant family name to each story title.

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Getting Around
There are several ways to browse the family tree. The Tree View graphically shows the relationship of selected person to their kin. The Family View shows the person you have selected in the center, with his/her photo on the left and notes on the right. Above are the father and mother and below are the children. The Ancestor Chart shows the person you have selected in the left, with the photograph above and children below. On the right are the parents, grandparents and great-grandparents. The Descendant Chart shows the person you have selected in the left, with the photograph and parents below. On the right are the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Do you know who your second cousins are? Try the Kinship Relationships Tool. Your site can generate various Reports for each name in your family tree. You can select a name from the list on the top-right menu bar.

In addition to the charts and reports you have Photo Albums, the Events list and the Relationships tool. Family photographs are organized in the Photo Index. Each Album's photographs are accompanied by a caption. To enlarge a photograph just click on it. Keep up with the family birthdays and anniversaries in the Events list. Birthdays and Anniversaries of living persons are listed by month. Want to know how you are related to anybody ? Check out the Relationships tool.


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