descendents

Each list consists of the names of people who descend from the earliest ancestor in the line. This is not exhaustive!
I have recorded family members outside my direct line whenever it has been relevant or the information has been at hand. I have not set out to record all descendants of any one individual.

I have considered providing drawn trees of various types rather than numbered lists. Trees are more easily navigated but I feel that lists are more readily searchable, and therefore more useful to researchers.

All the descendants of an individual are listed before the list reverts back to that individual's sibling(s) and descendants. This is a standard approach, based on the Aboville genealogical numbering system. Unfortunately I have no control over this in the output from my software package. This means that names do not appear in date order. I previously removed the Aboville numbering because it is very unwieldy and becomes difficult to follow after three or four generations. However, I have decided to include it, despite this, because the flow is even harder to read without it! Don't be put off by the strings of letters and numbers. If you take a copy of the page, you can work through it indenting each line by one space per letter, e.g. one for A, two for B etc.. This will reveal the family structure more clearly.

You can scan the list, or use <Find> on your browser's Edit Menu to locate particular names. When you have confirmed that the name of interest appears in the list, you should then refer to the narrative histories for further information. Note that some names are written with their homophones as found in the sources, e.g. 'Jafries' for 'Jefferies'.

Where an individual had more than one spouse, the spouse and children by that spouse are shown as (1), (2), etc.

The stated number of children refers to the number known within the database. I have recorded all children known to me, but this is not necessarily definitive.

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Abboville Numbering

In the Abboville numbering system each new generation is given a letter. The earliest generation is A. The name of the individual follows the letter. For example:

A. George Smith

Children within a generation are given numbers. Thus B.1 is the child of A. The name follows the number. For example, George's children would be:

B.1 Adam Smith
B.2 Elizabeth Smith

If Adam has children, they are noted before the sequence returns to Elizabeth. So are Adam's children's children, and so on. This means that a sibling belonging to an early generation might not appear until the end of the list, after much later generations. Aboville lists are therefore most easily read if they are indented by generation (letter).

Children "inherit" their parent's number. For example Adam's children would be:

C.1.1 Robert Smith
C.1.2 Edna Smith

...but Elizabeth's children would be:

C.2.1 Michael Smith
C.2.2 Mary Smith

...and Edna's first child would be:

D.1.2.1 David Smith

Confused? Remember:

Each generation is prefixed by a new letter.
Each child "inherits" its parent's numbers and is given an extra number of its own to go on the end of the sequence.

Compare these examples with a real list, and you'll soon see how it works.

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