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CIAO FAMIGLIA

 

8 generations of .... Fletchers, Burtons, Procters, Middlecoats, Dixons, Sutcliffes, Dobsons, Stringers, Ashtons, Hamptons, Hicks, Lockes, ....  Sproules, Aldouses, Pooles, Whitings, Stewarts, Robinsons, Sewards, Waughs, Blakes, Harpurs, Haws, Falconers, Hendersons, Hamiltons, Coopers, and no doubt lots of others since 1650.

 

 

 

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Guide to what's to be found in Ciaofamiglia

 

 

Adrian & Angela at Old Bell House, Somerton, Summer 1948

 

 

7 generation family tree - coloured in to show where everyone lived and what they did

 

 births marriages deaths - dates places certificates - 6+ generations

 

 

Recent Ancestors - details and photos of the parents, grandparents and great-grandparents of

Adrian Fletcher & his sister Angela Williams

 

 

EARLIER GENERATIONS

links to Adrian and Angela's 8 great grand parents and their ancestors ......

 

 

Adrian's Mother's Side

Marguerite Aldous (Peggy) Sproule

 

Adrian's Father's Side

Col Michael James Rex Fletcher

Grandmother Clare Stewart Sproule (Aldous) Grandmother Ethel Henrietta Florence (Em) Fletcher (Burton)

 

Ancestors of

Dr George Frederick Aldous and Isabella Henderson Stewart

 

 

NORFOLK, SUFFOLK, HAMPSHIRE, N IRELAND & MELBOURNE (AUSTRALIA) ANCESTORS

 

Aldous, Whiting, Poole, Strutt, Salmon, Seward, Haw, Stewart, Waugh, Henderson

 

commentary, chronology, photos & documents

 

 

Poole, Strutt, Salmon - Harleston, Diss, Norwich - Draper and earlier ?

Whiting - Norfolk (/Suffolk) Yeomen, Gentlemen & Grocers

Aldous - Norfolk & Portsmouth (British Navy) church wardens, Grocers, Grog Merchants, Plymouth Surgeon

Seward - Hampshire & Sussex Yeomen Farmers, Haw - Oxford St, London, Builder

Stewart - generations of Scottish House Painters, Melbourne Lord Mayor & top Solicitor in town

Waugh - Belfast & Melbourne Baker, Henderson - Belfast Merchants & Churchmen

 

 

Ancestors of

Surgeon Lt-Col John Adolphus Burton

and Georgiana Ernstin Middlecoat

 

BRITISH INDIA, CORNWALL & DEVON, DUBLIN & LONDON ANCESTORS

 

Burton, Locke, Hampton, Middlecoat, Hambley, Demountfryart, Fane, Webber, Incledon et Devon & Cornwall al

 

commentary, chronology, photos & documents .....

 

1700s - the Exciting Bengal Presidency Years

 

Hampton - early (from 1710) EICo Calcutta Buxee, Merchant, Commissioner

Hampton - Colonel in Bengal Native Infantry 1760s, 70s & 80s, contemporary of Governor Warren Hastings & Genl William Palmer, serious Calcutta properties owner

 

1800s - an expanded cast in Dublin, the West Country, London and the Madras Presidency during the Victorian Century

 

Webber / Incledon - from Braunton & Barnstaple and eventually a Madras Army Maj-General with an illegitimate (ours) and legitimate family

Middlecoats, Locke & Hamptons - Officers in the Madras Artillery and Native Infantry through the 1800s

Locke - indigo planter, British India civil servant

Burtons - Madras Artillery gunner from Dublin St Pauls, Ireland, EICo Writer, Indian Medical Service Doctor through the late 1800s

 

Middlecoats, Demountfryarts and others in Cornwall in the 1700s / early 1800s

 

Middlecoat - Cornish innkeeper, convicted rotten borough political fixer and very long-lived rogue plus another 3 generations of Cornish ancestors including Hambly, Saunders, Henna, Teague and

Dr George Demountfryart - Mayor of Bodmin in 1691, 1694, 1700, 1712,  & 1716

 

Grandfather Brig James Chambers (Jimmy) Sproule Grandfather Dr Frank Rex (Jimmy) Fletcher

 

Ancestors of

First Cousins Alex and Matilda Sproule

 

CO TYRONE (N IRELAND) & PETERBOROUGH (ONTARIO) ANCESTORS

 

Sproule, Robinson, Harpur

 

commentary, chronology, photos & documents

 

Sproule (Co Tyrone family, Immigrants in Peterborough (Ontario), English Army Doctor in India & Egypt, Photographers)

Robinson (Co Tyrone Doctor)

Harpur, Davis, Mathewson (Co Tyrone families)

 

 

The Sproule family in Co Tyrone (Ireland)

 

Jimmy Sproule and Clare Aldous marry in 1915

 

The World War 1 years

 

After WWI - the Sproules in India, England, and Egypt

 

Jimmy, Clare, Peggy and Brian Sproule in Egypt and Palestine, 1936-44

 

 

 

Ancestors of

Frank Edward Fletcher and Elizabeth Stringer Procter

 

CO DURHAM, WEST CENTRE & EAST YORKSHIRE, KENT ANCESTORS

 

Fletcher, Procter, Dixon, Sutcliffe, Dobson, Stringer

 

commentary, chronology, photos & documents

 

Fletcher -one     Fletcher-two     Procter

 

Fletcher (W Yorkshire woolcombers & a plumber, Scarborough ironmonger, Kent music professor, British Army & Kent medical specialist)

Procter (Barnard Castle & York Chemysts & Grocers, Scarborough Drapers & Milliners)

Dobson & Stringer (Scarborough families)  Ashton (York & Bubwith Coachman)

Dixon (W Yorkshire Mill Supervisor, Lancashire Shop Keeper & Political Writer)

Sutcliffe (W Yorkshire Mill Owner)

 

The remarkable 120 Year Story of John and Maria Fletcher

and their son Frank Edward Fletcher (FRCO)

 

Frank Edward Fletcher and Elizabeth Stringer Procter

Family Photos

 

Jimmy Fletcher and Ethel Burton marry in 1915

 

Captain Jimmy Fletcher RAMC photographs WWI in Mesopotamia 1917-18

 

 

 

 

Links to a dozen places where English ancestors were married

 

 

1300-2000 :  700 years of family in the context of English Kings & Queens, wars and major events ....

 

 

Sailing to New Countries - Three Centuries of Emigrants

 

 

3 Generations in beautiful Buriton, Hampshire

Aldous, Seward, Haw

 

 

Early generations of Procters in Staindrop, Brignall, Rokeby and Barnard Castle 

 

 

WWI, James Sproule, 2nd Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 131 Field Ambulance and the 38th (Welsh) Division

 

 

John and Maria Fletcher in Oxenhope and Scarborough, 1800s

 

 

In Egypt 1935-1944

 

 

The Middlecoat, Hambly, Demountfryart et al families, and Cuby with Tregony, Falmouth and Bodmin (Cornwall) Connections

 

 

Captain Jimmy Fletcher RAMC photographs WW I in Mesopotamia 1917-18

 

 

James Cooper Stewart - Scottish Immigrant, Legal Star and Mayor of Melbourne, and his father-in-law Robert Waugh, very very early Melbourne baker from Belfast

 

 

if you're not one of us you'll probably have more fun munching your way around Paradoxplace

 

Peggy Fletcher

 

dedicated to the memory of Peggy Fletcher (Sproule) 1917 - 2005

a fine person

30 July - Peggy's birthdays were always a special event in her year

 

 

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