Hepher Family a large farming family from Swavesey area in northern Cambridgeshire during the 1700 and 1800's.

Oliver Family a large farming family from Westoning / Flitwick and surrounding villages in Bedfordshire during the 1700 and early 1800's. Thomas Oliver moved to Hatfield Hyde, Hertfordshire in the mid 1800's. Some of his children movied to Stoplsey (near Luton) in Bedfordshire in the late 1800's. Here they farmed Stoplsley and Wigmore farms. One of his sons, James Oliver, founded the business that became known as AT Olivers, still in the Luton area.

Other family names researched include Troup, Marshall, Kingham, Tinsley, Wright, Searing, Bunker, Fox, Foxon, Tilzey, Chance, Field, Oliver, Curtis, Higgs, Watkins, Brett, Scammell, Tinsley, Litten, Wilkinson, Coe and Shoebridge.

The Kingham family of Liddlington, Westoning & Flitwick has been well documented in an earlier Kingham Website. This site is sadly no longer on-line so a copy is provided here.

Kings Walden Hale Family - a leading Hertfordshire family in the late 16th, 17th, 18th and first half of the 19th centuries. Robert Clutterbuck detailed their Pedigree in 1815 in his book 'History and Antiquities of Hertford'. They had estates across Hertfordshire, some of which it is believed the William Hale from our Hale family may have worked on in the late 1770's as the parishes where his children were christened all had Hale estates. Perhaps the two Hale families are linked? The Clutterbuck pedigree has been extended with additional data.

Hayter Family - The Hayter family has been traced back to a John Hayter and his wife Susanna born before 1700. Four of their seven (found so far) children were born in Melbury Abbas, Dorset. The will of John Hayter the Elder indicates that the family had some land/property. The family grew and spread into nearby Shaftsbury (being carpenters, wheelrights and/or pub landlords) and nearby Cann. By the early 1800's Josiah Hayter had moved to Donhead St. Mary in Wiltshire via nearby Semley.

Josiah married Mary Scammell living in Chicklade in 1820 and they had a large family of twelve children. The photo on the left is of their 'Family Register' that was kindly rescued from a charity shop. Josiah did well for himself, a yeoman first leasing and then owning land in Donhead St. Mary. The house in which he lived in from at least 1825 is still lived in today. Josiah and Mary are burried together. Some from his children moved to London in the mid 1800's.

One branch of the Hayter family, Jeremiah and Sarah Hayter, emigrated to Austrialia in the mid 1800's. Their life and their children's lifes have been recorded in a book.

The Wright Family are traced back to John Wright of Kent born in c.1476. He was King Henry VIII's steward and purchased / was granted Plowland Hall in Welwick and land in Holderness, Yorkshire. Two of his grandsons, John and Christopher are infamously linked to Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder plot in 1605. The family has been traced from Yorkshire, to North Wales, to Northamptonshire before finally settling in London. A current family member has helped answer some Wright Family genealogical questions through DNA testing.