This family tree has been set up for Thomas and Lucy Hillman, born 2001 and 2003 respectively.
Main paternal names within the family tree are Hillman, Tuke, Godfrey, Steuart-Corry, Corry, Green, Steele, Nicholson, Steele-Nicholson, and Macartney. Main maternal names within the tree are Fife, Bouts, MacMaster, Lusk, and Wilson.
I would be very interested in hearing from, and would be happy to give access to anyone with a connection to this tree.
Particular families of interest are:
The Hillmans of Lewes and the surrounding Sussex area
The Tukes of Yorkshire
The Corrys and Steuart-Corrys of Rockcorry Castle and County Down
The Nicholsons and Steele-Nicholsons of Ballow, County Down
The Broads of Lewes and surrounding Sussex area
The Godfreys of Nottinghamshire
The Greens of Rowley Regis, Staffordshire
Books of interest relating to the people on this tree are as follows:
The Cossticks 1700-1900 by Douglas Wilkie, charting the progress of the Cosstick family from Sussex to the gold rush in Australia
The Tukes of York by William and Margaret Sessions, which tells the story primarily of William, Henry, and Samuel Tuke from about 1730 to 1850
North Antrim Families by Thomas Bennett, which charts the descendents of the Moore family of North Antrim, including a number of Wilsons, Lusks and others that appear in this tree
The Historie and Descent of the House of Rowallane by Sir William Muir (written in or prior to 1647), edited by William Muir (1825), a genealogical history of the Muir family of Rowallane that was found in the castle of Rowallan, Ayrshire, in the early 19th century.
Notable people on the tree (so far) include:
Edward Brice - first Presbyterian minister for Ireland
Mary Tuke - grocer, whose chocolate business was eventually sold to Henry Isaac Rowntree, becoming Rowntree's of York
William Tuke - founder of the York Retreat, pioneer of the humane treatment of the mentally ill, campaigner against the slave trade, co-founder of three Yorkshire schools, and instrumental in the founding of the Yorkshire Fire and Life Company, a predecessor to General Accident, and ultimately Aviva plc
William Charles Tuke - a Lancashire architect who, with his business partner James Maxwell, designed the Blackpool Tower which, when built, was the second tallest structure in the world
Samuel Tuke - co-founder of the Friends Provident Life Office, now a part of Resolution plc
Henry Scott Tuke RA - Visual artist, painter and photogropher
Edward Hillman - solicitor and Mayor of Lewes, Sussex
George Edward Hillman - Coroner for East Sussex
Sir Henry Wood - founder of the Promenade Concerts
Joseph Rowntree II - Quaker philanthropist, businessman and chocolatier, and founder of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Thomas Hardy - English novellist and poet, and writer of Far from the Madding Crowd, and Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Robert Falcon Scott - English Antarctic explorer
Richard John Bingham - 7th Earl of Lucan (Lord Lucan)