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About FAMILIES IN SHEFFIELD, UK : Oldale, Barber, Ellin, Levesley and many others
Introductory Note by the Webmaster Chris Meakin (who can be contacted on J7CHM123@gmail.com). Please scroll further down this page for:
* A full list of all the family names so far connected into the Tree; * A simple guide on how to enter the Tree and then navigate it; * An explanation of the rules I am adopting for modern names on the Tree; * Hyperlinks to useful public Websites relevant to this Tree. * But first, some notes on the principal family names explored so far
Please also sign the GUEST BOOK, just click the link above. It is also very helpful to include your email address there. I have seen how on Tribalpages trees elsewhere the Guest Book can develop into a handy and very specific Message Board for family historians.
This Tree is gradually expanding into a shared ancestry of established Sheffield families, and is opening up a kaleidoscope of folk involved in the town's industrial growth which led to the modern city. Several experienced researchers into Sheffield roots (Jay Roland, Paula Newton and others) are already helping and it transpires we are all distantly related, typically fourth cousins, lending some substance to that old adage about Sheffield being "the largest village in England".
Thanks to their efforts, this Tree has lately grown apace in the teelve or more years since its modest beginnings in November 2002. As the number of people listed increases, so more researchers can probably link in their own ancestry - do please let us know, and if you wish, we will be pleased to include your data. Some people like a tree to be "all my own work" but this one is a combined effort.
SOME OLD SHEFFIELD FAMILIES
BARBER: we so far trace them back to about 1750, the estimated birth of the splendidly-named Georgius Barber whose son, also Georgius, married Sarah Oldale in 1802. So far we have linked 25 early Barbers, the most recent shown being Edwin Barber b.1878. Clearly Barber is not an unusual name, but scions of the family played a vital part in Sheffield's industrial evolution.
ELLIN : ten names so far descended from James Ellin born c 1740-50, who married Arine (should that be Anne?) Dykes. Their son Thomas Ellin married Ann Oldale in 1798, and they founded the cutlery firm of Oldale and Ellin. Of particular interest in Sheffield, both he and his son Thomas became Master Cutler, in 1833 and 1841 respectively.
OLDALE : so far we show 150 descendants. A remarkable old Sheffield family, originally farmers in the Sheaf Valley - see following.
> CANADIAN/American Oldales may well descend from Thomas Joseph Oldale (1859- 98) four of whose sons emigrated to Canada. There is a large Oldale family website about all this - click on Link shown below;
> AUSTRALIAN Oldales may well descend from Arthur Richard Oldale (1814-92) born in Sheffield, emigrated to Adelaide.
LEVESLEY : a distinctively Sheffield spelling of a name with many variants, the family descends from a long, possibly ancient, dynasty of farmers in the Loxley Valley. In the 18th century and later they kept a pack of "fighting men" whom they hired out for displays at weddings, feasts, and other merry-making events. DJs did not even exist back then.
We can only assume they were actually the farm labourers putting on a show, for money. The earliest marriages show Levesleys on both sides, very typical of small farming communities, thus that of Thomas Levesley to Hannah Levesley in 1766. Before the railways came sixty years later, people travelled around very little so cousin marriages were far from uncommon.
The great-grandson of Thomas and Hannah ran the Black Swan in Snig Hill, which had been the principal coaching inn of Sheffield until the railways came. In turn his son married the grand-daughter of Georgius Barber and Sarah Oldale, in effect creating a retrospective Grand Alliance between two of Sheffield's principal farming dynasties, the Levesleys of the Loxley Valley and the Oldales of the Sheaf Valley. Much work has been done on this family by Geoffrey Levesley and Susan Buffrey (nee Levesley)
HOW TO ENTER AND EXPLORE THE TREE
Choose one of the family names on the list below and click it. That shows a list of all family members known here; click any of them to extract them from the family list, then click on their name again to enter the Tree itself. To start with, just click on their father, or on their spouse's father, to get a broader view of their family where we have it. Thus you can explore up or down the Tree, also using the ANCESTORS or DESCENDANTS and other buttons, at the top, for each main person you have centrally on your page. To move to someone different quickly, look in the DROP DOWN LIST of all the names at top right.
Generally you will find the FAMILY view for an individual contains the most detail - that alone includes space for a box in which we can record details of, for example, their addresses and other helpful detail from the Censuses. On another Tree I have, it also proves an ideal place for detail about WILLS.
RULES OF THE GAME FOR THIS VERY PUBLIC TREE
We have deliberately not protected this Tree with a Password, so it is not appropriate here to reveal precise ancestral links right down to people still living. If we did that, and showed the highly accurate details we typically have of their parents and in some cases living grandparents, the Tree would be 3-4 times its present size, which is not helpful anyway. So do not be disappointed that you do not appear yourself. The focus of interest here is on people born before or around 1900 - most of us can easily work out where we relate to people of the twentieth century.
Best of luck in your searching.
Chris Meakin
The following information is general information provided by Tribalpages for all of their family websites.
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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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